1705 in architecture

The year 1705 in architecture involved some significant events.

• March – The first of the principal buildings of Greenwich Hospital, London, the King Charles Court, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.
• November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Virginia colony in America, construction of the first Capitol building is completed.^[1]
• Blenheim Palace is begun at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, designed by John Vanbrugh (completed 1722).^[2]
• The Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria, is completed (started 1692).^[3]
• Remodelling of the Jesuit Church, Vienna, by Andrea Pozzo is largely completed.^[4]

• January 8 – Jacques-François Blondel, French architect (died 1774)^[5]
• Charles Labelye, Swiss civil engineer (died 1762)^[6]
• Approximate date – Richard Taliaferro, American architect working in Williamsburg, Virginia (died 1779)^[7]

• Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham, English amateur architect (born 1632)^[8]

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