1912 – Camden Picture House, Camden St., Dublin
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolf Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolf Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Quirky cinema building which had a windmill tower on the main facade. It is unknown if windmill sails were every constructed although he architect’s drawings show a set attached.
Fine commercial building with shop units at street level ad a set back row of dormers behind a decorative parapet.
Illustration from The Building News showing the reinforced concrete stand under construction, Designed by Messrs.
Constructed as a Picture Theatre, the Coliseum remained in use until the 1970s.
Originally started life as a large house, which can be seen in the centre of the range of buildings.
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
According to the Irish Builder, the facade was “finished in red brick and chiselled limestone dressings,
Closed in 1953, to be demolished to allow a new cinema to be constructed on the site.
This theatre was opened in April 1915, Easter Monday 1915 to be exact,
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