Kammala jumla mai zuwa: William C. McElroy (? <unk> 1869) da matarsa Harriet Shober (1816 <unk> 1899) sun sayi filin a Gough Street a 1859. McElroy ya kasance mai aikin katako ne ta hanyar kasuwanci kuma ya gina gidan tsakanin 1860 zuwa 1861, a fadin titin daga wurin da yake yanzu. Asali an tsara gidan ne da hawa biyu, tare da dakuna huɗu a kowane bene, kuma tare da matakala mai juyawa a tsakiyar ginin. Iyalin McElroy sun zauna a cikin gidan har zuwa kimanin 1880s, lokacin da gidan ya zama dukiyar haya. Daniel O'Connell, wanda ya kafa kungiyar Bohemian, yana daya daga cikin masu haya. A watan Afrilu na 1906, gidan ya lalace sosai a lokacin
Girgizar ƙasa a shekara ta 1906. A shekara ta 1909, gidan ba mallakar iyalin McElroy ba ne kuma ya canza mai shi sau da yawa.