1869 in architecture
The year 1869 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events
- Construction of Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, designed by Christian Jank, is begun.
Buildings and structures
Buildings opened
- 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.
- 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
- Churches of St Columba and St Chad, Haggerston in the East End of London, designed by James Brooks.
- Rotes Rathaus in Berlin, Germany.
- Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England.
- Hillfield House in Gloucester, England, designed by John Giles.
- Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy.
Awards
- RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Karl Richard Lepsius.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Ferdinand Dutert.
Births
- March 21 – Albert Kahn, German-born industrial architect working in the United States
- March 29 – Edwin Lutyens, "the greatest British architect"
- April 4 – Mary Colter, American architect and designer
- April 28 – Bertram Goodhue, American neo-Gothic designer
- August 13 – Tony Garnier, French architect and urban designer
- November 4 – Fritz Schumacher, German architect and urban designer
- November 8 – Adolf Eichler, German architect working in Baku
- November 20 – Herbert Tudor Buckland, Welsh-born architect working in Birmingham
- December 7 – Jānis Alksnis, Latvian architect and builder
Deaths
- January 5 – George Smith, English architect and surveyor
- April 13 – Isaiah Rogers, American architect
- July 7 – Horatio Nelson Goulty, English architect
- August 9 – Giuseppe Puini, Italian engineer and neoclassical architect