1839 – Bethesda Chapel, Granby Row, Dublin
Erected around 1839 as the Protestant Bethesda Chapel to replace an earlier one of around 1785.
Erected around 1839 as the Protestant Bethesda Chapel to replace an earlier one of around 1785.
The building, Garfield Chambers was built in 1882 and like many buildings on Royal Avenue, was finished in stucco. Opened in 1911,
Known originally as the Grafton Picture House, the cinema opened on Easter Monday, 11 April 1911,
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolph Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Once every neighbourhood or major street had its own cinema, but many are sadly gone. The Phoenix lives on,
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.
Constructed as a Picture Theatre, the Coliseum remained in use until the 1970s.
According to the Irish Builder, the facade was “finished in red brick and chiselled limestone dressings,
Opened in 1914, the cinema sat 630 people and was originally known as the Manor Cinema. Later, it was known as the Palladium,
Closed in 1953, to be demolished to allow a new cinema, the State Cinema to be constructed on the site.