Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD UPPER, NO. 002-6 (POST OFFICE & TELEPHONE EXCHANGE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: COOKE, WILLIAM HENRY HOWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD UPPER, NO. 002-6 (POST OFFICE & TELEPHONE EXCHANGE)
Date: 1932-34
Nature: New 7-bay, 2-storey post office for Commissioners of Public Works.. Glencullen granite 'largely used'.Tenders invited for building same Feb 1933 and for fitting same May 1934.  Opened 1 Feb 1935 by P.J. O'Hegarty, Secretary to Department of Posts and Telegraphs. Cost: £27,000.
Refs: Irish Times, 19 Feb 1935 (illus.); IB 77, 23 Feb,6 Apr 1935, 106(illus), 136,269; Irish Decorators' and Builders' Review Vol. 11, No. 119 (Feb 1933), Vol. 12, No. 134 (May 1934); General Advertiser, No. 2429 (26 May 1983); Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1831-1987 (AAI, 1987), 48(illus.),49; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the new architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 181-183;  Máire Crean, Lost Post: a selection of Ireland's post office buildings (Dublin, 2012), 96-97(illus.).