1826 – Home’s Hotel / Wellesley Market, Usher’s Quay, Dublin
Home’s Hotel was opened by Scotsman George Home in 1826 but it only remained open for a few years. It’s fine Doric columned portico was a landmark on the quays.
Home’s Hotel was opened by Scotsman George Home in 1826 but it only remained open for a few years. It’s fine Doric columned portico was a landmark on the quays.
Church building readily identifiable as the work of Semple with later interior decoration from the early twentieth century –
Originally a simple rectangular building of roughcast stone, ornamented with cut granite and a square tower, measuring 68 feet by 28 feet.
Described by Lewis in 1837 as “The court-house is a handsome building in the Grecian style,
Unbuilt design by the Pains – a castle was eventually built to the designs of George Fowler Jones.
Napoleon wanted the stock exchange to be housed to reflect “the grandeur of the capital”
Built as a Court House and jail (bridewell) in 1824-1828 to a design by Cork-based architect George R.
Prior to the bridge’s completion in 1826 the island had no connection to the mainland and all movement to and from Anglesey was by ferry.
Originally constructed between 1824-26, the Royal Institution (as it was until 1911) was extended in the 1830s to create the building we see today.
A t-shaped church with galleried transepts, designed by Michael Augustine O’Riordan. O’Riordan, was born in Doneraile,