Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Amateur architect. Graham Lemon was a wholesale confectioner in Dublin, with premises at 49 Sackville Street and 140 St Stephen's Green West, and a house called St Edmund's at Clontarf.(1) In 1862 Lemon acquired 29 Grafton Street which he demolished and rebuilt, apparently to his own design. The Dublin Builder commented: 'While we admire the enterprise of Mr Lemon, we certainly must dissent from his architectural 'efforts' - which are seldom attended with success, when the work of an amateur.'(2)



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(1) Thom's Directory (1863), 1599. He is possibly the person of the same name who was born in Belfast in 1823 to James Lemon and Sarah Graham, married in New York in 1884 and died in 1886 (www.familysearch.org>).
(2) DB 4, 1 Aug 1862, 199


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 029
Date: 1862
Nature: Acquired by Lemon, demolished and rebuilt, apparently to his own design.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Aug 1862, 199.