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1869 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1869 in architecture
The year 1869 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
![]() Yasukuni Shrine
- February 3 – Booth's Theatre, New York City, United States.
- May 12 – Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott, consecrated.
- May 25 – Vienna State Opera, constructed by Josef Hlávka to designs by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. van der Nüll hanged himself in 1868 in disappointment at the public reaction to the design and von Sicardsburg died of tuberculosis a few months later.
- June – Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, Japan.[1]
- October 19 – St Barnabas Church, Oxford, England, designed by Arthur Blomfield, consecrated.
- November 6 – Blackfriars Bridge, London, England.
- November 17 – The modern Suez Canal.
- December 31 – St Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill, London, designed by S. S. Teulon.
Buildings completed
 Rotes Rathaus in Berlin, Germany
Awards
Births
Deaths
References
- ^ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1963). The Vicissitudes of Shinto. pp. 118–134.
- ^ "Mr Brooks's Churches". The Architect. 4: 109. 1870-08-20.
- ^ Gavin Stamp (2006). "The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme".
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