Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PRINCE'S STREET NORTH, NO. 004-8 (SCALA THEATRE & OPERA HOUSE)
Name: | MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PRINCE'S STREET NORTH, NO. 004-8 (SCALA THEATRE & OPERA HOUSE) |
Date: | 1918-20 |
Nature: | New theatre on former sites of Freeman's Journal offices and Alexander Thom & Co.. For Frank.W. Chambers 'of the Carlton Cinema' and George P. Fleming 'of the Inchicore paper mills', proprietors.. Work commenced 15 May 1918. To cost over £40,000. Opened 10 Aug 1920. Contractor: J. & R. Thompson. Stained-glass windows by J. Clarke & Sons. Plaster ceiling on first floor by George Rome & Co., Dublin. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 16 May 1918, 7 Aug 1920; IB 61, 13 Sep 1919, 377; 62, 14 Aug 1920, 530; Freeman's Journal, 7,11 Aug 1920. Ceiling on first floor illustrated in AAI Green Book, 1923-4, 22. |