Name: |
MILLAR & SYMES |
Building: |
CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, EXCHEQUER STREET, NO. 001-5 (CENTRAL HOTEL) |
Date: |
1884-1887 |
Nature: |
New hotel opened 28 Dec 1887. Cost £10,000. Buildings erected in 1884 by South City Markets Co. 'splendid pile of buildings' rising from its foundations in Jan 1885 (Contractor: Pile; Clerk of Works: Edward Barrett), for which see Weekly Irish Times, 31 Jan 1885. Contractor for fitting out as hotel: James Donovan, Harcourt Street.
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Refs: |
Irish Times, 31 Jan 1885, 29 Dec 1887; diary of R.C. Millar (entry for 28 Dec 1887), transcript in IAA (81/50.5); Daily Express, 29 Dec 1887; Architect, ? ? 1888; IB 30, 1 Jan 1888, 12; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 553.
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