1903 – Nuzum Brothers, 201 Pearse Street, Dublin
Wonderful shop front for Nuzum Brothers who also had a business further along the street beside the current Garda station. This is one of the best terracotta facades in the city.
1905 – Design for Fire Station, Tara Street, Dublin
Architect: C.J. McCarthy
Design concept for Tara Street fire station by the city architect C.J. McCarthy. Almost as built with the exception of the tower,
1905 – Shopfronts, Nos 183-187 Pearse Street, Dublin
Terrace of buildings owned by Trinity College but for many years curiously unloved. The buildings themselves are earlier but the Faience shopfronts date from 1905.
1906 – Former Fire Station, Tara Street, Dublin
Architect: C.J. McCarthy
Designed by the City Architect C.J. McCarthy as one of a series of fire stations around the city.
1909 – Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, Dublin
Architect: C.J. McCarthy / Dublin City Architect’s Department
Designed originally by the city architect C.J. McCarthy, and extended nearly one hundred years later by his successor,
1909 – Queen’s Theatre, Pearse St., Dublin
Architect: R.J. Stirling
Now demolished, but built as a variety theatre in 1844, rebuilt in 1909, and later used by the Abbey Players after the Abbey Theatre was destroyed in a fire in 1951.
1912 – Nos. 8-11 Pearse Street, Dublin
Architect: R.J. Stirling
Fine commercial building with shop units at street level ad a set back row of dormers behind a decorative parapet.
1915 – Garda Station, Pearse Street, Dublin
Architect: A. Robinson, M.J. Burke, H.G. Leask, Board of Public Works
Designed for the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) and now the main Garda Station for the south city,
1970 – Aras an Phiarsaigh, Pearse Street, Dublin
Architect: Tyndall Hogan Hurley
Built on the site of the Queen’s Theatre, which was the home of The Abbey after the fire that destoryed their theatre in 1951.
1972 – Oisin House, Pearse Street, Dublin
Architect: Tyndall Hogan Hurley
Truly horrific materials, design, and massing marks this waste of a fantastic site along a busy street and abutting Trinity College.
