Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL)
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. |