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.
Originally the Alliance and Gas Companies Showrooms, later the Dublin Gas Company. Later still it was part of the Woolworths store next door.
All but the front of 1902 was destroyed in the Rising – the building with the large arch and oriel window above.
Photographed from Nelson’s Pillar after the Easter Rising, when all that remained was the front facade.
Phoenix Park Racecourse was located on the northern edge of the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Founded by J.H.H. Peard, racing began here in 1902,
Reconstructed to designs of William H. Beardwood between 1899 and 1903. Sited next to the Royal Hibernian Academy on Abbey Street,
Demolished to make way for the Irish Life Centre which stretched through from Abbey Street.
Constructed between 1907-09, the chapel of the Dominican Convent and school was built above street level with a refectory hall underneath.
Two separate veterinary schools were run by UCD and TCD at this Ballsbridge site and continued until 1977 when the two schools were merged and fully incorporated into UCD.
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolf Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Fine commercial building with shop units at street level ad a set back row of dormers behind a decorative parapet.