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23 March 2013
1867 – Palmerston Buildings, Old Broad St and Bishopsgate, London

1867 – Palmerston Buildings, Old Broad St and Bishopsgate, London

Architect: F. & H. Francis Palmerston House was named after the Third Viscount Palmerston. It stood at 51-55 Broad Street. It was occupied for some time by the Cunard Steam Shipping Company. Demolished...

23 March 2013
1871 – Preen Manor House, Church Preen, Shropshire

1871 – Preen Manor House, Church Preen, Shropshire

Architect: Richard Norman Shaw North east view published in The Building News, August 11th 1871. A site of a Cluniac monastery -he monastic buildings were demolished in 1850 to make way for a...

23 March 2013
1910 – Woolworth’s, Grafton St., Dublin

1910 – Woolworth’s, Grafton St., Dublin

Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb The first F. W. Woolworth store in Ireland opened in 1914 on Grafton Street in Dublin. Eventually spread over three adjacent commercial units. The southernmost was No.101, a solid...

23 March 2013
1596 – Fembo House City Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria

1596 – Fembo House City Museum, Nuremberg, Bavaria

Constructed between 1591 and 1596, Nuremberg’s only surviving large late Renaissance merchant’s house has been serving as a municipal museum since 1953. It offers an insight into the life of a wealthy Nuremberg...

23 March 2013
1879 – Wesley College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

1879 – Wesley College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

Architect: Alfred G. Jones Wesley College was founded in 1845 on St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin as a Methodist Foundation but welcomes students of all faiths. It was originally proposed that to build a...

23 March 2013
1758 – Statue of George II, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

1758 – Statue of George II, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

Sculptor: John Van Nost the Younger This was the first statue to be erected in St. Stephen’s Green, and was commissioned by Dublin Corporation. The statue depicted King George II in full triumphant...

22 March 2013
1865 – Church of St. Philip, Sydenham, London

1865 – Church of St. Philip, Sydenham, London

Architect: Edwin Nash Demolished in the early 1980s to provide a new church and sheltered housing. From The Building News: “This church was erected in 1865 from the designs of Mr. Edwin Nash,...

22 March 2013
1880 – Royal Exchange Assurance Co., No. 5 College Green, Dublin

1880 – Royal Exchange Assurance Co., No. 5 College Green, Dublin

Architect: T.N. Deane & Son Office building in an Elizabethan Tudor style on the corner of College Green and Anglesea Street. Demolished in 1960s.

21 March 2013
1867 – St. George’s Church, Tupnell Park, Holloway, London

1867 – St. George’s Church, Tupnell Park, Holloway, London

Architect: George Truefitt Constructed for The Free Church of England, later dissenters from Anglicanism. No longer in use as a church, but converted into a theatre. The illustrated tower and spire was never...