Henrietta Street is the earliest Georgian street in Dublin, and at the forefront of
Dublin's later Georgian streetscapes. Construction on the street started in the mid-1720s, on land bought by the Gardiner family in 1721. Construction was still taking place in the 1750s. Gardiner had a mansion, designed by
Richard Cassels, built for his own use around 1730. The street was popularly referred to as ''Primate's Hill'', as one of the houses was owned by the
Archbishop of Armagh, although this house, along with two others, was demolished to make way for the Law Library of
King's Inns. and by 1911 there were 835 people living in poverty in just 15 houses. The
Dublin Civic Exhibition (1914) took place at the
King's Inns and the
Linenhall complex with entrance for the public via Henrietta Street. A number of houses on the street remained in use as tenements until the 1970s. with productions filmed including
Albert Nobbs,
Inspector George Gently and ''
Foyle's War''. The street is a
cul-de-sac, with the Law Library of King's Inns facing onto its western end. As of 2017, there are 13 houses on the street. One of these houses,
14 Henrietta Street, was opened as a museum in late 2018.
14 Henrietta Street tells the story of the building and of the lives of the people who lived there. A plaque at the address commemorates its association with Irish republican
Thomas Bryan. ==First residents==