1911 – Former Cinema, 72 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: Richard Orpen
Known originally as the Grafton Picture House,
Known originally as the Grafton Picture House,
Like the larger store (now Pennys) across the street,
One of a chain of seventy-four Martello Towers,
A fine pair of commercial buildings with ornate upper stories.
A long drawn out project,
Branch bank constructed for the now defunct Royal Bank of Ireland.
Fine ornate corner public house with much of its original interior detail intact.
Design for small chapel for the Church of Ireland Training College,
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolph Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Once every neighbourhood or major street had its own cinema,