1931 – No. 49 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin
Architect: Patrick J.F. Munden
Typical infill building from the period in a design idiom to be seen in many Dublin suburbs for small scale commercial developments.
Open until the early 1990s, the Adelphi was demolished and part of its façade retained to provide car parking for the expanded Arnott’s Department Store.
The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 as the Irish National Theatre Company. After purchasing the Mechanics Institute on Marlborough Street,
Opened as the Curzon Cinema, and later the Lighthouse, the entrance foyer to this cinema was distinctly modern.
A large development by Irish Life Assurance Company on the old Brooks Thomas yards consisting of blocks of various heights around courtyards both at street level and raised.