1716 in architecture
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The year 1716 in architecture involved some significant events.
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[edit] Buildings
- America's first lighthouse, Boston Light, is built; it will be destroyed in the American Revolution and rebuilt in 1783.
- In Buenos Aires, Argentina, a monastery is built by the Franciscan Recoleto monks, and the complex will later serve as a hospital during the English invasions.
[edit] Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).
[edit] Births
- Peter Harrison - English-born architect, active in the Rhode Island colony (d. 1775)
