Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)
Date: 1832a
Nature: 'Gresham's plaster palace...With cornice - ballusters - a wretched group,/Then crowned the whole with large toureens for soup!!!'
Refs: An Essay on the rise and progress of architectural taste in Dublin…by Nicholson Numskull, Esq., 2. (An engraved elevation of the street front as described appears in an advertisement in Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 23, no. 83, 30 Jul 1881, 518, and subsequent numbers).

Name: JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)
Date: 1866
Nature: Extensive adds. & alts.
Refs: DB 8, 1 Jan 1866, 12; Maoiliosa Reynolds, 'The Work of Alfred Gresham Jones', MUBC thesis, School of Architecture, University College Dublin, 1996, 162-168

Name: WEBB, JAMES HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)
Date: 1904
Nature: New dining hall to accommodate 300 diners.. Contractor: Fletcher & Phillipson, Baggot St.
Refs: IB 46, 19 Nov 1904, 784;  Irish Times, 30 Nov 1904.

Name: WEBB, JAMES HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)
Date: 1907-8
Nature: New supper room recently added in connection with Aberdeen Hall formally opened 24 Jan 1908.
Refs: IB 50, 25 Jan 1908, 53

Name: SHERIDAN, GEORGE PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 021-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL, OLD)
Date: 1920
Nature: Work started on extension containing 20 new bedrooms & baths. Contractor: James Clarke, 13 Upper Clanbrassil St.
Refs: IB 62, 3 Jul 1920, 445