1882 – Superintendent’s Lodge, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin

Constructed at the southwest corner of St. Stephen’s Green (the junction of Harcourt and Cuffe Streets), this attractive Arts and Crafts-influenced gate lodge was built as part of the remodelling of the Green during the 1870s. The architect J.F. Fuller had undertaken other work for the Guinness family and Lord Ardilaun who was funding the Stephen’s Green project, most notably at Farmleigh House in 1881-1884, St. Anne’s in Clontarf, and the refurbishment of Iveagh House on Saint Stephen’s Green. Fuller designed the lodge with styled brick, decorative mouldings, and ornamental bargeboards. Rather expensive for the day, it cost £2,256, and Fuller also designed gate piers and shelters for Saint Stephen’s Green. The gate lodge played a role in the Easter Rising of 1916, being occupied by Cumann na mBan, before the rebel units were forced to withdraw to the nearby Royal College of Surgeons.