Grafton Street Dublin

Named after the Earls of Grafton who owned land in this area and developed by the Dawson family.

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.

1900 – No.65 Grafton Street, Dublin

Originally the Alliance and Gas Companies Showrooms, later the Dublin Gas Company. Later still it was part of the Woolworths store next door.

1860s – No.39 Grafton Street, Dublin

Fine shopfront, now demolished. Possibly designed by William G. Murray who designed the building or a later replacement shop front.

1760s – Royal Irish Academy, No.107 Grafton Street, Dublin

Early home of the Royal Irish Academy, which had some minor work by Richard Johnstom, and internal stuccowork by Charles Thorp.

1881 – Nos. 96-100 Grafton Street, Dublin

Architect: William Mitchell

Fine commercial block at the corner of Grafton and Wicklow Streets. At one point, almost the entire block to Suffolk Street was the work of Mitchell –

1848 – Former Brown Thomas, Grafton Street, Dublin

Architect: William Caldbeck

Started in 1848 with a large extension a decade later, and Italianate in style. Gutted in the 1990s for Marks &

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.

1767 – Dublin Society, No. 112-113 Grafton St., Dublin

The first home of the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society) on Grafton Street. The architect Thomas Ivory was commissioned to design the museum inside the building,

1863 – No.26 Grafton Street, Dublin

Architect: Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt

“The experiment which Mr. Digby Wyatt has tried in the design of the premises which we have selected for our principal illustration of the current week is one interesting enough to architects and archaeologists,

1870 – No.42 Grafton Street, Dublin