1875 – W.H. Smith & Co., Middle Abbey Street, Dublin
Built at Nos. 79-80 Middle Abbey Street for W.H. Smith whose assets and business in Ireland was eventually taken over by Charles Eason and Son in 1886.
Built at Nos. 79-80 Middle Abbey Street for W.H. Smith whose assets and business in Ireland was eventually taken over by Charles Eason and Son in 1886.
The Maunser family built several houses on the site. A map from 1652 shows an Elizabethan manor house,
The Walrond Memorial Smack Boys’ Home and Fishermen’s Institute, on the Ballast quay, was erected in 1875: it contains all the necessary appliances for securing the comfort and accommodation of smack boys when ashore: the buildings are of a Gothic character,
Perspective View published in The Building News, September 3rd 1875.
Perspective view published in The Building News, May 7th 1875. Rowland Plumbe was mainly known for being the architect of many residential schemes across London,
The Belfast & Northern Counties Railway commissioned an impressive dressed sandstone structure with Italianate tower, which opened in 1875.
From The Architect, December 25, 1875: This chapel, the foundations of which are just commenced, is being built on an advantageous site in one of the principal streets of the city.
From The Architect, October 16, 1875: The design is an endeavour to produce a building suitable to the JL simple ritual and service of the Wesleyan Methodist Church,
“We illustrate in present number a new residence erected for William J. Hanna, Esq. (late of Philadelphis,