1854 – Upper House, Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Dublin
This 1913 illustration depicts the front elevation of the Male Department of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum,
This 1913 illustration depicts the front elevation of the Male Department of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum,
From The Irish Builder: “Though we have on former occasions noticed the progress and features of the large pile of building for some time in course of erection at Eccles-street,
Unbuilt design for new wing of Mercer’s Hospital.
Part of the former hospital for sick and the poor erected through the will of Mary Mercer and opened in 1734,
Constructed incase of a public health emergency.
Much of Upper Baggot Street was built in the Victorian era as a mixture of commercial premises,
Incomplete scheme that added a chapel and wards to the earlier building by John Bourke of 1861.
Constructed as the Auxiliary hospital,
Reputed to be the most expensive capital project ever undertaken by the British Government in Ireland,
In 1810 a former convent became part of the Grangegorman House of Industry (workhouse) who commissioned a hospital to care for the ‘ruptured poor’.