OTHER HISTORICAL BUILDINGS CLOSEBY
Fitzgerald House ( 1810-1820 ) Home of Cork Chamber of Commerce . Georgian c 1810-1820 building on Summerhill North .
St Patrick ’ s Church ( 1848 ) The Greek History Influence . The church was opened for public worship on 1 July 1848 and was dedicated to St Patrick .
Thompson ’ s Bakery ( 1826-1984 ) Cake Specialities . The present twelve-bay five-storey structure building was erected about 1890 and was built from red brick with some sandstone .
Trinity Presbyterian Church ( 1861 ) A Spire of Time . The first recorded Presbyterian congregation in Cork dates back to 1675 .
Musgrave ’ s Metropole Hotel ( 1897 ) Musgrave Brothers Limited was formed in 1894 , by 2 brothers . Originally owning grocery and confectionary stores , they went on the build the Metropole Hotel in 1897 . A novel feature of the new hotel was its promenade roof gardens , introduced for the first time in connection with an Irish hotel .
The Palace Theatre ( 1897 ), ( Everyman Theatre ) This was originally designed and built circa 1840 as a house . In 1897 Dan Lowry opened the building as a luxurious new theatre called The Cork Palace of Varieties . The Palace became a cinema in 1930 and remained so until 1988 . The venue reopened as a theatre in 1990 when it was purchased by the Everyman Theatre Company .
Brian Boru Bridge ( 1912 ) Cork ’ s First Lifting Bridge . In 1905 , the city ' s primary railway company was given royal permission and given the equipment to build railway sidings on the quays to facilitate ships and their cargoes .
Dunlops ( 1927 ) The Dunlop Rubber Company ( Ireland ) Ltd was incorporated on 24 March 1924 .
To suit their purpose , they erected a large brick and ferro-concrete structure at the Lower Glanmire Road adjacent to Kent Station .
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