14 Henrietta Street

Museum in Dublin, Ireland April 2022 14 Henrietta Street The Tenement Museum 14 Henrietta Street (cropped).jpg The Tenement Museum, 14 Henrietta Street September 2018 14 Henrietta Street,Dublin, Ireland Tenement, Georgian 53.3523486 N 6.2701543 W inline,title Ireland Central Dublin 14Henriettastreet.ie thumb|right|Entrance to 14 Henrietta Street in August 2011 (before restoration) 14 Henrietta Street is a social history museum located on Henrietta Street in Dublin, Ireland.14 Henrietta Street Dublin City Council Culture Company https://www.dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie/what-we-do/programmes/14-henrietta-street 2024-11-26 www.dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie en-IE The museum, which is sometimes referred to as the Tenement Museum, Duggan Charles The Making of a Tenement Museum: A Report on 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1 Béaloideas 84 2016 133–143 45212752 https://www.hotpress.com/culture/tenement-museum-dublin-recognised-in-european-irish-awards-22348578 Hot Press hotpress.com Tenement Museum Dublin Recognised In European & Irish awards 25 May 2018 3 November 2022 opened in September 2018. It tells the story of how the building turned into tenements after its Georgian times and of the many residents who occupied this house throughout the years. History Construction of Henrietta Street began in the 1720s, on land bought by Luke Gardiner.Dublin 1660–1860 Craig Maurice 1-905483-11-2 1952 2006 129 Numbers 13, 14 and 15 were built in the late 1740s by Gardiner as a speculative enterprise.Shaffrey Associates Architects; John Montague, Architectural Historian; Carrig Conservation Ltd; Dr. Tracy Pickerill; Lee McCullough & Partners, Consulting Engineers; Boylan Farrelly, Quantity Surveyors; Henrietta Street Conservation Plan Dublin City Heritage Number 14's first occupant was Lord Richard Molesworth and his second wife Mary Jenney Usher.https://14henriettastreet.ie/restoring-300-years/ Restoring 300 years 14henriettastreet.ie 4 October 2018 4 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181004190332/https://14henriettastreet.ie/restoring-300-years/ live Other notable residents in the late 18th century included Lord John Bowes, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Sir John Hotham, and Viscount Charles Dillon. After the Act of Union in 1800, Dublin entered a period of economic decline. 14 Henrietta Street was occupied by lawyers, courts and a barracks during the 19th century.https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/first-look-inside-14-henrietta-street-dublins-newest-museum-37308710.html First Look: Inside 14 Henrietta Street – Dublin's newest museum Irish Independent 14 September 2018 4 October 2018 By 1877, a landlord called Thomas Vance had removed its grand staircase and divided it into 17 tenement flats of one, three and four rooms. An advert in The Irish Times from 1877 read: "To be let to respectable families in a large house, Northside, recently papered, painted and filled up with every modern sanitary improvement, gas and wc on landings, Vartry Water, drying yard and a range with oven for each tenant; a large coachhouse, or workshop with apartments, to be let at the rere. Apply to the caretaker, 14 Henrietta St. In the 1920s, Irish Republican Army volunteer Thomas Bryan lived at the address. In March 2023, a plaque was unveiled by Dublin City Council in his memory.Blaney Amy Plaque unveiled to Thomas Bryan, one of the ‘Forgotten 10’ during War of Independence https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/plaque-unveiled-to-thomas-bryan-one-of-the-forgotten-10-during-war-of-independence/42385770.html Irish Independent 14 March 2023 Restoration work began in 2006 and took over ten years to complete. 14 Henrietta Street is owned and was restored by Dublin City Council, but is operated by the Dublin City Council Culture Company.https://14henriettastreet.ie/info/about-us/ About us 14henriettastreet.ie 4 October 2018 4 October 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181004190237/https://14henriettastreet.ie/info/about-us/ live The house has been restored to show the original Georgian period through to its final incarnation as a tenement. Tenements The tenements in Dublin were usually 18th or 19th century townhouses that were adapted, normally very poorly, to make flats that would house many families and it would normally be one family living in a room that would be divided into a kitchen, sitting room and a bedroom.14 Henrietta Street History of the house https://14henriettastreet.ie/about/history-of-the-house/ 2024-11-26 14henriettastreet.ie en-IE These tenements were located in the north inner city of Dublin, and also on the Southside near the Liberties and around the south docklands. By the end of the 19th century, many people lived in the Georgian houses on Henrietta Street.Duggan Charles 2016 The Making of a Tenement Museum: A Report on 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/45212752 Béaloideas 84 133–143 0332-270X At the end of the 1970s, there were not many people still living in 14 Henrietta Street and out of the seventeen flats, many of them had emptied over time or were renovated into bigger ones. At the end of this period, a few temporary tenancies and some squatters had replaced the community of families that once lived there. In 1979, 14 Henrietta Street was closed down permanently as tenements. Museum The 14 Henrietta Street museum is based in an 18th-century Georgian townhouse. The museum shares the story of how the building turned into a tenement house after it was once a residence for some of Dublin's most elite citizens.Housing memories: the Dublin Tenements’ Museum UCD Research https://www.ucd.ie/research/impact/casestudies/housingmemoriesthedublintenementsmuseum/ 2024-11-26 www.ucd.ie The museum, which opened in 2018, has received a number of awards,Newsdesk The Hot Press Tenement Museum Dublin Recognised In European & Irish awards https://www.hotpress.com/culture/tenement-museum-dublin-recognised-in-european-irish-awards-22348578 2024-11-26 Hotpress including the Siletto Prize for community engagement at the European museum of the Year Awards in 2020.Redmond Nora 2024-06-22 House museums #73: 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin https://www.ft.com/content/73f12c9b-2618-45f8-9fac-3b1d4407f63d 2024-11-26 Financial Times The museum also won two RIAI Irish Architecture awards, in 2018, for the best conservation project and the best overall project nationally.2024-03-01 Historic tenements building 14 Henrietta Street wins major architectural award https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/historic-tenements-building-14-henrietta-street-wins-major-architectural-award/a1724883174.html 2024-11-26 Irish Independent en In 2024 the museum won an RIAI silver medal for Conservation and Restoration. Gallery References External links 14Henriettastreet.ie collapsed Category:2018 establishments in Ireland Category:Georgian architecture in Dublin (city) Category:Museums established in 2018 Category:Museums in Dublin (city) Category:History museums in the Republic of Ireland Category:Houses completed in 1749 Category:Historic house museums in the Republic of Ireland