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Connolly Station, formerly Amiens Street Station, once Dublin Station, at the crack of dawn. This charmingly awkward pile was designed in 1844 by William Deane Butler for the Dublin-Drogheda Railway to emphatically terminate the vista from Sackville Street, now O’Connell Street.
This 1916 view of Abbey Street Lower captures the old Wynn's Hotel as rebuilt for the Clarence Hotel Co. in 1899 by architect William H. Beardwood. Every bedroom was heated by its own hearth. Note the outline of its former mansard roof. Francis Johnston's gutted RHA is next door.