1710 – Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin
It was Joshua Dawson who built the mansion in 1710, and which was purchased in 1715 by the Corporation for £3,500 as a residence for the Lord Mayor.
This was named after Harry Dawson who laid out Dawson, Grafton, Anne and Harry Streets in the area.
It was Joshua Dawson who built the mansion in 1710, and which was purchased in 1715 by the Corporation for £3,500 as a residence for the Lord Mayor.
The original design for St. Ann’s Church, Dawson St., was never completed as designed here. Started in 1720,
No 8 Dawson Street is a very fine mansion house with considerable surviving mid eighteenth century joinery and decorative plasterwork that has been well maintained.
The former Royal Hibernian Hotel dated back to 1751 as a pair of buildings making up a coaching inn, making it one of the country’s first hotels.
Fantasticly ornate shop front on Dawson Street. The facade now largely defaced by the addition of metal canopies for the bar inside.
Well maintained Georgian house surrounded by later buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries.
A former house converted into a commercial premises for J.B. Johnstone, military and merchant tailor.
Designed in a Lombardo-Romanesque style, this building was never completed with the northern tower remaining without the ornate belfry designed for it.
The original church on this site by Isaac Wills, designed in 1720 but never fully completed,
For some years with an additional floor added, this formed part of the Waterstone’s book shop which was next door on Dawson Street.