Georgian House Museum
Restored eighteenth-century townhouse dressed floor to attic as it looked in seventeen ninety, saved from a wave of Georgian demolition.
This guide to the Georgian House Museum in Dublin opens with wrecking crews arriving in 1965 to level sixteen houses on this street for a power company's new headquarters, a demolition Dubliners fought and lost. You'll hear how one house, number twenty nine, survived because it was home to a widowed wine merchant's wife named Olivia Beatty from 1794, and how it later served for decades as office space for the very company that had bulldozed its neighbors. The guide follows the house into 1991, when that company restored it and opened its rooms to the public. Listen for how the story of this street keeps circling back to the same decision, made twice.
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