1900 – No.65 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: Charles Ashworth
Originally the Alliance and Gas Companies Showrooms, later the Dublin Gas Company. Later still it was part of the Woolworths store next door.
1904 – Former Bank, Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: W.H. Lynn
Fabulous over-the-top facade with polished marble columns spanning two floors over a heavy sandstone ground floor.
1905 – No.112 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: W.M. Mitchell & Sons
No.112 is the left hand site of the photograph, the retail unit at street level being a branch of Specsavers.
1907 – No.113 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: W.H. Byrne & Son
With a construction period overlapping its neighbour at No.112, it’s easy to think that there was some contact between the two offices in terms of materials and decorative elements.
1910 – Woolworth’s, Grafton St., Dublin
Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb
The first F. W. Woolworth store in Ireland opened in 1914 on Grafton Street in Dublin.
1912 – Nos.102-3 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: W.H. Byrne & Son
Originally constructed for West & Son, in a style heavily influenced by Richard Norman Shaw’s work in England.
1913 – Switzer’s Department Store, Grafton St., Dublin
Architect: J. Hampden Shaw / Donnelly & Moore
The former department store first opened its doors way back in 1838 at 91 Grafton Street and later acquired the building at Grafton Street and Wicklow Street.
1921 – Provincial Bank, Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: Charles Ashworth
At the Suffolk Street end of Grafton Street, the decorative carved corbelling and pilasters can still be seen.
1926 – Mitchell’s Hotel, Nos 9-11 Grafton St., Dublin
Architect: W.M. Mitchell & Sons
Constructed as a new hotel in the mid 1920s, and later contained a fashionable restaurant at street level.
1931 – No.52 Grafton Street, Dublin
Architect: Robinson & Keefe
An unusual corner building at the top of Grafton Street complete with modern interpretation of the corner tower used on many Dublin corners.
