1768 in architecture

• Work begins on Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson. • Duchal House, Scotland, extended. • In Bath, England, St James' Church is designed by John Palmer of Bath (between 1768-1769). • Potseluev Bridge, St Petersburg, Russia, reconstructed to accommodate horse traffic. • Architects Domenico Merlini and Szymon Bogumił Zug are ennobled in Poland. ==Buildings and structures==

Buildings completed • Nathaniel Hill Brick House, Montgomery, New York. • The Paragon, Bath, England, designed by Thomas Warr Attwood. • Petit Trianon, Versailles, France, originally designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel by the order of King Louis XV for his long-term mistress, Madame de Pompadour, but used by Queen Marie Antoinette. • Blue Mosque, Yerevan. • Façade of Theatine Church, Munich, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is completed by his son. • Reconstruction of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and construction of Real Casa de Correos (post office) there, both begun by Ventura Rodríguez, are completed by Jaime Marquet. ==Births==

• April 12 – John Sanders, architect, first pupil of Sir John Soane (died 1826) • May 11 – David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843) ==Deaths==

• February 8 – George Dance the Elder, City of London surveyor and architect (born 1695) • March 11 – Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Sicilian Baroque architect (born 1702) • April 14 – François de Cuvilliés, Walloon-born Bavarian architect (born 1695) ==References==