1900 – Esplanade Hotel, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Architect: James J. Farrall
Remodelled in 1900 ‘on modern lines as a station hotel’.
1900 – Hotel Metropole, Cork
Architect: Arthur Hill
Ornate Victorian hotel with retail units at ground level.
1901 – Temperance Hotel, Whitehead, Co. Antrim
Originally opened as a Temperance Hotel at the railway excursion resort of Whitehead.
1901 – The Empire Hotel, Buxton, Derbyshire
Architect: Thomas Garner, Bodley & Garner
The Empire Hotel used as an annex to the Granville Military Hospital during the First World War and as a discharge depot for Canadian troops after the second.
1902 – Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh
Architect: William Hamilton Beattie
Sumptuous railway hotel built at one end of Princes Street as the North British Hotel.
1902 – Dunleath Arms Hotel, Ballywalter, Co. Down
Architect: William J. Fennell
Small hotel, Lord Dunleath “intends to run the inn under the Gothenburg principle,
1903 – “Seacroft”, Golf Links Hotel, Skegness, Lincolnshire
Architect: Brewill & Bailly
Published in The Building News,
1903 – Criterion Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Architect: H.S. Griffiths
Built at a cost of $20,000 and designed by H.S.
1903 – Foley’s Hotel, Wicklow Street, Dublin
Architect: Albert E. Murray
Custom built hotel to designs of Albert E.
1903 – Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London
Architect: Mewes & Davis
The Grade II listed building is heavily influenced by the architectural traditions of Paris –
