1927 – 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Architect: Giaver Dinkelberg Thielbar and Fugard
Formerly known as Jewellers Building, Pure Oil Building and the North American Life Building,
1927 – Britannic House, Moorgate, London
Architect: Edwin Lutyens
Britannic House designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which later became British Petroleum.
1927 – Dublin City Council Offices, Lord Edward Street, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
A modest office building used by Dublin City Council. Originally a much grander proposal was planned for this site,
1927 – Dublin Civic Week, O’Connell Bridge, Dublin
Dublin Civic Week was held over the 17th to the 25th of September 1927. As part of the event, an elaborate structure was built on the central median of O’Connell Bridge.
1927 – First Presbyterian Church, Winnipeg, Canada
Architect: Pratt & Ross / James J. McDiarmid
First Presbyterian is the principal of four churches established in the last half of the 1920s by Winnipeg congregations that did not join the 1925 union of Presbyterians,
1927 – Former Bank of Montreal, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Kenneth Guscotte Rea
Fine little classical bank building nestled into a block of Portage Avenue. Now the offices of the Downtown Biz association,
1927 – Former Gorevan’s Department Store, Camden Street, Dublin
Architect: Rudolph Maximilian Butler
A fine concrete building with its structure clearly visible, this former Department Store was used as the headquarters of the Irish Nationwide Building Society for many years.
1927 – Former Hudson’s Bay Department Store, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: Barott & Blackader
Founded in 1670, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s (HBC) chief interests for its first two centuries were the fur trade,
1927 – Garda Station, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Architect: Board of Works
Combined Garda Station and house for the local Sargent. Probably built by the Board of Public Works between the 1830-50s,
1927 – Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, California
Architect: Meyer & Holler
Built in 1927 by a partnership headed by Sid Grauman, the Chinese was intended to be the world’s greatest theatre.
