Buildings and structures
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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1869 |
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.[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
- Churches of St Columba and St Chad, Haggerston in the East End of London, designed by James Brooks.[2]
- Rotes Rathaus in Berlin, Germany.
- Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England.
- Hillfield House in Gloucester, England, designed by John Giles.
- Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy.
