The Masonic Female Orphans School, as it was originally known, now known as Bewley's Hotel, is situated on the corner of Merrion Road and Simmonscourt Road in Dublin’s exclusive area of Ballsbridge. The foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Abercorn on St John’s Day, 25th June, 1880 "in the presence of a fashionable and extremely large assemblage.’’ Two years after this foundation stone was laid, the construction of the new Masonic School was completed.