14 Henrietta Street

14 Henrietta Street is a museum located on Henrietta Street in Dublin, Ireland. The museum, sometimes referred to as the Tenement Museum,^[1][2] opened in September 2018.

History

Construction of Henrietta Street began in the 1720s, on land bought by Luke Gardiner.^[3] Numbers 13, 14 and 15 were built in the late 1740s by Gardiner as a speculative enterprise.^[4] Number 14's first occupant was Lord Richard Molesworth and his second wife Mary Jenney Usher.^[5] Other notable residents in the late 18th century included Lord John Bowes, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Sir John Hotham, and Viscount Charles Dillon.^[5]

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.^[6] By 1877, a landlord called Thomas Vance had removed its grand staircase and divided it into 19 tenement flats of one, three and four rooms.^[5] 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." By 1911, it was home to over 100 people.^[6] The last families left the house in 1979.^[6]

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.^[7]

Restoration work began in 2006 and took over ten years to complete.^[6] 14 Henrietta Street is owned and was restored by Dublin City Council, but is operated by the Dublin City Council Culture Company.^[8] The house has been restored to show the original Georgian period through to its final incarnation as a tenement.^[6]

Gallery

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  Shelf of household products
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  Replica of a tenement living room

References

External links

• Official website