1909 – No.9 College Green, Dublin

Sandwiched between two modern neighbours, this survivor is finished in Mount Charles sandstone and granite at street level. Built as offices for the Sun & Patriotic Insurance Company, of four storeys with a hidden dormer level behind the parapet. The Irish Builder, despite a tendency in this period to comment adversely on new buildings in Dublin by British architects, considered Porter’s office to be ‘quite one of the best contributions to the street architecture of Dublin during recent years’ with a ‘quiet and restrained use made of the classical tradition that is specially appropriate to Dublin’. A quite different response to the construction of Sunlight Chambers a few years previously.