Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET MIDDLE, NO. 098-101 (ADELPHI CINEMA)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: GLEN, WILLIAM R. #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET MIDDLE, NO. 098-101 (ADELPHI CINEMA)
Date: 1937-38
Nature: With Robert Donnelly. On site of old Plaza. Builder: E. Stone & Sons. Opened 1939.
Refs: IB 79, 11 Dec 1937, 1101; 80, 17 Sep,1 Oct 1938, 788,840; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 187; Eve McAulay, 'The Temples of the new Entertainment': the architecture of the Irish picture house', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 172,173(illus.).

Name: DONNELLY, ROBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET MIDDLE, NO. 098-101 (ADELPHI CINEMA)
Date: 1937-39
Nature: With William R. Glen. On site of old Plaza. Builder: E. Stone & Sons. Opened 13 Jan 1939.
Refs: IB 79, 11 Dec 1937, 1101; 80, 17 Sep,1 Oct 1938, 788,840; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 187; Eve McAulay, 'The Temples of the new Entertainment': the architecture of the Irish picture house', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 172,173(illus.).

Name: HIGGINBOTHAM, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET MIDDLE, NO. 098-101 (ADELPHI CINEMA)
Date: ?
Nature: JJH supervised construction as Dublin Corporation's Surveyor of Places of Public Resort.
Refs: Obituary of JJH in RIAI Yearbook 1951-52, 15