1867 – Wilsons Warehouse, No.26 Nassau St., Dublin
Architect: John McCurdy
Demolished to make way for Norwich Union buildings in the 1960s.
Demolished to make way for Norwich Union buildings in the 1960s.
Solid large house with many round headed windows on the first floor.
Described in The Irish Builder, January 1 1869: “With this number we give as an illustration some sketches of a new billiard-room and other additions to the Angel Hotel,
Replaced a church constructed in 1795,
Designed by Sir Thomas Newenham Deane in 1868 and modeled on the London head office of Crown Life,
Designed in a Lombardo-Romanesque style,
The foundation stone was laid April 19th 1867,
Built on the site of the townhouse of their first Grandmaster,
Published in The Irish Builder, Vol.
Later facade and tower added to earlier chapel for the Magdalen Asylum at the foot of Leeson Street.