title: 'Any style but gothic': Building a home for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
abstract: On 15 July 1864 the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland held its first business meeting in its newly built home at 6 Kildare Street, Dublin. Although the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland had been in existence for over 200 years this was the first occasion that a College meeting had been held in a building owned by the College. This paper looks at the history behind the construction of a home for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. It will examine why it took over 200 years for the Physicians to find a permanent home, how they ended up with the building they did, and what they borrowed from the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in the process.
authors.affiliation: H Wheelock, Royal College of Physicians ofIreland, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, E-mail harrietwheelock@rcpi.ie.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wheelock
mesh_terms: D001108:Architecture / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D010820:Physicians; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014495:Universities / Q000266:history*
keywords: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; medical architecture