Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ALEXANDRA ROAD, GRAIN SILO (MERCHANTS' WAREHOUSING CO.)

Name: BATCHELOR & HICKS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ALEXANDRA ROAD, GRAIN SILO (MERCHANTS' WAREHOUSING CO.)
Date: 1915-1920
Nature: Reinforced concrete grain silo for Merchants' Warehousing Co.; designed by Hicks. Contractor: J. & W. Stewart (Dublin & Belfast).
Refs:  IB 57, 24 Apr,6 Nov 1915, 184,190,486; 78, 11 Jul 1936, 596; Who's Who in Architecture (1923), 123; advertisement for J. & W. Stewart in JRIAI (1928);  Ulster Parliament Building (commemorative booklet issued by Stewart & Partners, Ltd, 1932), 33(illus.); JRIAI (1933), 18;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 8,9,10(illus.).