1881 – Commercial Union Building, Grafton Street, Dublin

Designed in 1879 by Thomas Manly Deane of T.N Deane & Son as offices for the Commercial Union Assurance Company, this is a fine exercise in Scottish Baronial on a very prominent corner opposite Trinity College.

Offices of the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Dublin
We give this week an illustration of this building, which has been erected at the corner of College-green and Grafton-street, Dublin, from the designs of Messrs. T. N. Deane & Son, at a cost of 5,644Z. It was commenced in September 1879, and completed in April 1881. The material principally used externally was yellow Mansfield stone. The contractors were Messrs. Wardrop & Son, of Dublin.

As will be seen, the building forms one of the now more and more rare examples of modern Gothic applied to secular buildings, and in that respect is a good specimen of its class, solid and unpretentious in style and detail.
The Builder, July 11 1885

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