1913 – Grace Gifford House / John Street West National Schools, Dublin
With separate entrances for boys and girls,
With separate entrances for boys and girls,
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
Sketch design by the architect Horace T.
A small building with elaborate gable and unusual window arrangements.
The former department store first opened its doors way back in 1838 at 91 Grafton Street and later acquired the building at Grafton Street and Wicklow Street.
According to the Irish Builder,
Plans entered in the Dublin Town Planning Competition of 1914.
The Dublin Town Planning Competition was held in 1914,
Opened in 1914, the cinema sat 630 people and was originally known as the Manor Cinema.
The National Concert Hall is built on part of the Coburg Gardens (now Iveagh Gardens) in which the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865 was held.