Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)
Date: 1899;1903
Nature: Reconstruction; new works. Contr: H. & J. Martin. Clerk of Works: J. Scanlan.
Refs: IB 41, 1 Aug 1899, 93; 45, 9 Apr 1903, 1682

Name: SCOTT, ANTHONY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)
Date: 1917
Nature: Proposed rebuilding after destuction by fire in 1916 Rising  (but built to designs of Francis Peter Russell instead). For Clarence Hotel Co.
Refs: IB 59, 17,31 Mar,29 Sep 1917, 125,149,493

Name: RUSSELL, FRANCIS PETER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)
Date: 1925-26
Nature: New hotel, for Clarence Hotel Co. Plans approved by City Architect, May 1924. Completed towards end of 1926. Builder: G. & T. Crampton. Heating, plumbing &c. by Maguire & Gatchell. Ornamental ironwork including wrought iron canopy over entrance by J. & C. McGloughlin, Pearse St.  Marble wall and floor tiling in vestibule and hall by C.W. Harrison & Sons, Pearse St.  Stone cariving by Albert Power, RHA.  Wood carving by James Levens.. 
Refs: Drawings in IAA: revised first floor plan by Russell (1924) in IAA acc. no. 2015/30 and bill of quantities, including drawing of front elevation in IAA acc. no. 2014/63;  Irish Times, 22 May 1924, 7 Oct 1926 (illus); ;  IB 68, 4 Sep,16 Oct,13 Nov 1926, 681,788,854; 69, 5 Feb 1927, 73(illus.); AJ 73, 17 Jun 1931, 859(illus.); advertisements in AAI Green Book (1928), 22, & 1929-30, 9;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 178;  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 59-60(illus.).

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)
Date: 1926
Nature: Stone carving.
Refs: Irish Times, 7 Oct 1926.

Name: HARRISON, C.W., & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, NO. 035-37 (WYNN'S HOTEL)
Date: 1926a
Nature: Carving on new hotel by C.W. Harrison & Sons. But  Irish Times, 7 Oct 1926, says that marble tiling in hall & vestibule was by CWH & Sons and stone carving was by Albert Power RHA
Refs: Advertisements in AAI Green Book (1928), 22, & 1929-30, 9.