1913 – Dublin Municipal Offices Competition
Architect: McDonnell & Reid, Frederick G. Hicks, O’Callaghan &
With its giant Ionic order,
Probably the strangest 20th Century building in Dublin and definitely the last hurrah of Victorian Gothic for a religious based institution,
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.