Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CORN EXCHANGE (NATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1852)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CORN EXCHANGE (NATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1852)
Date: 1852
Nature: Conversion of Corn Exchange for National Exhibition of 1852 (opened 10 Jun 1852). Alts. included remodelling  of Great Hall, 225 x 52x45 ft and addition of Fine Arts Court, 145 x 52 ft. Exhibition opened, 12 Jun 1852. (Building afterwards became new Corn Market, then City Hall;  Fine Arts Court taken down, 1853.)
Refs: B 10, 8 May,5 Jun,31 Jul 1852, 300,483; 11, 26 Feb 1853, 134; 18, 21 Jul 1860, 464; Cork Journal, Vol. 6 (1900), 224; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 127-128;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 34-35;  information from Roger Herlihy, Dec 2011.