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{{Short description|A Georgian townhouse on the Northside of Dublin}}
{{about|Belvedere House in Dublin, Ireland|Belvedere House and Gardens, Mullingar, County Westmeath|Belvedere House and Gardens}}
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| address             = [[Great Denmark Street]]
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'''Belvedere House''' is a historic townhouse located on [[Great Denmark Street]] bookending [[North Great George's Street]] in [[Dublin]], Ireland. It was built by [[George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere]] between 1775 and 1786 at a cost of £24,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Belvedere College, 6 Denmark Street Great, Dublin, DUBLIN |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50010932/belvedere-college-denmark-street-great-dublin-dublin |website=Buildings of Ireland |access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref> The design and stucco of the interior ceilings was carried out by [[Michael Stapleton]], a leading [[stucco]]dor  and craftsman of his time.<ref name=history1>{{cite book|last= Lucey|first=Conor|year=2007|title=The Stapleton Collection: Designs for the Irish neoclassical interior|location=Tralee|publisher=Churchill Press|isbn=978-0-9550246-2-7}}</ref> In 1841 it became a [[List of Jesuit educational institutions|Jesuit college]] which houses the school [[Belvedere College]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Tour-de-Force |url=https://theirishaesthete.com/2018/11/05/belvedere/ |website=The Irish Aesthete |access-date=16 January 2021 |date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
It is allegedly haunted by the [[ghost]] of Rochfort's mother, Mary Molesworth, 1st Lady of Belvedere, who died there.{{Sfn|Hopkins|2003|p=21}}
Belvedere House is located near the [[Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)|Garden of Remembrance]] and  [[James Joyce Centre]].<ref name="walking">{{cite web|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/literary-walking-tour-dublin-4785553-Sep2019/|title=Take a walking tour around Dublin with these 10 landmarks from Irish novels|publisher=[[stuff.co.nz]]|first=|last=|date=September 3, 2019}}</ref>
==Building==
The building is a detached symmetrical 5-bay, 4-storey over basement structure which was refaced in red brick in the 1950s. It has a rusticated portland stone facade to the raised basement level. The balustrade of the first floor level is also faced in portland stone while there is a granite parapet and frieze over the top floor.
==References==
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*{{cite book|last=Hopkins|first=Frank|title=Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers & Hoors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMj84is2xlIC&pg=PA20|year=2003|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-86023-154-4}}
{{Castles in Dublin}}
[[Category:Houses in County Dublin]]
[[Category:Houses completed in 1775]]
[[Category:Irish Jesuits]]
[[Category:Museums in Dublin (city)]]
[[Category:Georgian architecture in Dublin (city)]]