Art Deco Building on Grafton Street Dublin Ireland

Mouse over image displays a vintage Dublin 1930's view of Grafton Street.

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2003 Dublin Photograph by A. Geraty.

This Art Deco style building is located opposite the entrance to Stephens Green, the vintage photograph depicts it during the early 1930's. It's at the south end of Grafton Street, named - as is nearby Duke Street, after the Second Duke of Grafton. A local land owner & also the deputy Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1715 & 1723. Some of the Duke's properties in the area were developed by Joshua Dawson & nearby Dawson Street is named after him.
One of the city's fashionable shopping areas with street traders & musicians, during the 1930's Grafton Street was on the main tram routes into the city from the affluent south side suburbs of Terenure, Rathmines & Dartry, near Churchtown.
To the left is South King Street, the public house in the 1930's image has gone, having been consumed by redevelopment of the block which today houses the Stephens Green Shopping Center.

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