1913 – Former Cinema, No. 62 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
The site was previously occupied by the old county gaol which was built in the late 18th century.
Un-assuming little building built as the Court of Petty Sessions –
With separate entrances for boys and girls,
Domestic house by English architect William Whymper,
Probably the strangest 20th Century building in Dublin and definitely the last hurrah of Victorian Gothic for a religious based institution,
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.