1910 – Woolworth’s, Grafton St., Dublin
Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb
The first F.
The first F.
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolph Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Quirky cinema building which had a windmill tower on the main facade.
Fine commercial building with shop units at street level ad a set back row of dormers behind a decorative parapet.
Constructed as a Picture Theatre,
Illustration from The Building News showing the reinforced concrete stand under construction,
Originally started life as a large house,
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
Very narrow building with Portland stone front with colonnade of granite Doric columns at street level.
According to the Irish Builder,