Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: HARRISON, C.W., & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1926-1929
Nature: Rebuilding. Carving by C.W. Harrison & Sons.
Refs: Advertisements in AAI Green Book (1928), 22, & AAI Green Book (1930), 9

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1926-1929
Nature: Enrichments on facade: coat of arms, urns, sphinxes (modelled on his wife's face). Cost £700.
Refs: Letter from J.J. Robinson in Clonliffe College Archive, MS p139/4; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 399;  illus. in Dara O' Conaola, Saol agus Saothar: Albert Power (Ceardshiopa Inis Oirr Teo, 19, 1996), 46.

Name: ATKINSON, ROBERT [2]#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1926-1929
Nature: Rebuilding.  Designs by RA and A.F.B Anderson. Fireproof steel and concrete construction.  Portland stone frontage with Lapidosus patent stone facing composition. 250 bedrooms Carving by C.W. Harrison & Sons and Albert George Power.. Plain and ornamental plasterwork and Lapidosus patent stone facing composition on front by Alex Malcolm & Co., 60 Mespil Road.  Opened end Mar 1927.
Refs: Design for restaurant in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection DR55/5, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/uE65pqapyW/MAIN_CAT/268790059/13 (last visited May 2009) and Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects A (1968), 38;  B 66,13 Dec 1924,1037; 67,21 Mar,11 Jul 1925,230,550; 68,20 Feb,4 Sep 1926,113,673; RA 1926, no. 1199; RA 1927 (restaurant and winter garden) nos. 1370,1377; AA Journal 43 (1927-28), ?;  Architect & Building News 132, 7 Jan, 29 Apr, 6,27 May 1927, 30-31(illus.), 725-742(illus.),785-6(illus.), 919 (illus.);  Irish Times, 10 Mar 1927 (illus.);  advertisements in AAI Green Book (1928), 22, & AAI Green Book (1930), 9

Name: ATKINSON, ROBERT [2]#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1929
Nature: Proposed ballroom and extension. Plans approved by City Architect, Aug 1929.
Refs: IB 71, 16 Feb 1929, ?;  Irish Times, 8 Aug 1929.

Name: DOWNES & MEEHAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1950;1951
Nature: 5-storey bedroom extension over ballroom, 1950; staff cloakrooms, 1951.
Refs: IB 92, 16 Sep,23 Dec 1950, 998,1380(illus.); 93, 1 Sep 1951, 910

Name: DOWNES & MEEHAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1953;1956;1958
Nature: Alts. & new lift shaft; alts. to ballroom servery; proscenium lighting; boiler house.
Refs: IB 95, 24 Oct 1953, 1108; 98, 24 Mar,3 Nov 1956, 263,1007; 100, 15 Nov 1958, 843

Name: DOWNES & MEEHAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
Date: 1959-61
Nature: Extension on O'Connell St.
Refs: IB 101, 27 Jun 1959, 457; 103, 19 Aug 1961, 653.