1808 – Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Grand Canal Street, Dublin
The physician Sir Patrick Dun had died in 1713, leaving lands in county Waterford in trust to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Known as Grand Canal Street since 1791 after the nearby Canal docks. Originally Artichoke Road after John Villiboise, a Huguenot settler, who obtained built a house here in 1736 and grew artichokes in his garden.
The physician Sir Patrick Dun had died in 1713, leaving lands in county Waterford in trust to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Built on the site of a building occupied by Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Easter Rising,
Horrendous speculative office block developed in the early 1970s – wildly out of scale with the surroundings.
The former Boland’s Mill building was stripped back to its concrete framed structure and redeveloped into an office building in the late 1980s by Treasury Holdings.