1926 – Mitchell’s Hotel, Nos 9-11 Grafton St., Dublin
Constructed as a new hotel in the mid 1920s, and later contained a fashionable restaurant at street level.
Constructed as a new hotel in the mid 1920s, and later contained a fashionable restaurant at street level.
Rebuilt in 1926 by an unknown architect after the Edinburgh Life Insurance Company was destroyed in 1922. A branch of the popular Monument Bakery chain for many years and more recently an amusement arcade.
Gabled, half-timbered-effect block of shops & houses, designed by Charles Macalister for a property developer. Macalister was the son of Alexander Macalister but chiefly involved in housing.
Hotel renovated and extended to design of local civil engineer Civil engineer Richard Dowling around 1925-26.
One of Munster’s oldest covered shopping arcades, Winthrop Arcade, built in 1926, has a distinctive mock Tudor façade.