1757 – St. Mark’s Church, Pearse Street, Dublin
With its main entrance front facing onto Mark Street, St Mark’s is an interesting building set back from the street still within its grassy churchyard.
Originally known as Moss Lane, then Great Brunswick Street after the reigning house of Hanover, and later Pearse Street after Padraig and Willie Pearse, leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising who were born here.
With its main entrance front facing onto Mark Street, St Mark’s is an interesting building set back from the street still within its grassy churchyard.
A wooden bascule bridge constructed to continue Brunswick Street, now Pearse Street over the Grand Canal at their docks near Ringsend.
Nos. 23–25 Pearse Street, then Great Brunswick Street, served as the main recruiting office of the British Army between 1910 and 1924.
Originally built as an industrial headquarters for The Dublin Oil and Gas Company established to extract gas from fish oil. This business went bankrupt in 1834 when the price of fish oil,
Sir Philip Crampton was Surgeon-General to the British Army. He was always interested in zoological science and played an active part in founding the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland and was many times its president.
Impressive eight storey, five bay stone warehouse, with projecting corner bays, now part of an enterprise centre.
Proposal for a huge theatre at the junction of Tara Street and Pearse Street (on the site of the now former Fire Station by C.J.
Large hardware and seeds warehouse for Thomas McKenzie & Sons designed after a competition by O’Callaghan.
Corner Victorian public house facade with four bays to Pearse Street, and six bays to Shaw Street. The shop facade is elaborate timber design with decorative tiles and mosaics,
Now a community resource centre, this Victorian building was constructed as boys and girls national schools in 1895-97.
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