Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1861
Nature: New 5-bay, 3-storey building. WGM winner of competition limited to 6 entrants for new building on site of old Kildare Street Club. FS laid 7 Jul 1862 by Earl of Carlisle.. Contractor: Beardwood. Estimated cost: £6,000. (Refaced in Portland stone in slightly different form by Desmond Fitzgerald, 1964;  original sandstone facade re-erected as folly at Woodbrook, Bray, Co. Dublin.)
Refs: DB 3, 15 May,1 Aug 1861, 510,589; 4, 15 Jan,1 May,1,15 Jun,1 Jul 1862, 16, 112,134,135(illus.),150,151(illus.),159; B 19, 3 Aug, 28 Dec 1861, 535,902; 20, 15 May 1878, 146;  Freeman's Journal, 27 Jul,8 Aug 1861;   Irish Times, 3 Aug 1861, 8 Jul 1862;  'Annals of Dublin' in Post Office Dublin Directory (1875), 800;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 482.

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1861
Nature: JMcC awarded 2nd premium (£50) in limited compeititon.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 27 Jul 1861;  DB 4, 1 Sep 1862, 215,220(illus.)

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1861
Nature: Submits unselected design in limited competition.
Refs: Perspective view in IAA, Charles Geoghegan drawings, 80/32 J2; this may be the drawing exh. at RHA 1862, no. 453, noted in DB 4, 15 Jul 1862, 175; DB 3, 15 May,1 Aug 1861, 510,589; B 19, 3 Aug 1861, 535

Name: FERGUSON, DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1861
Nature: Submits unselected design in limited competition.
Refs: DB 3, 15 May,1 Aug 1861, 510,589; B 19, 535 1861, 535

Name: BUTLER, JOHN STERLING
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1861
Nature: Submits unselected design in limited competition
Refs: DB 3, 1 Aug 1861, 589; B 19, 3 Aug 1861, 535

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1862
Nature: Turner & Drew submit 2 sets of plans and 3 different designs for façade in limited compeitition. Proposed design exh. by Drew at RHA, 1862..
Refs: RHA 1862, no. 492; DB 3, 1 Aug 1861, 589; 4, 15 Jul 1862, 175

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1862
Nature: Turner & Drew submit 2 sets of plans and 3 different designs for façade in limited competition. Proposed design exh. by Drew at RHA, 1862..
Refs: RHA 1862, no. 492; DB 3, 1 Aug 1861, 589; 4, 15 Jul 1862, 175; Roger Harper, Victorian Architectural Competitions (1983), 43

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1866
Nature: Statue of Sir Henry Marsh, unveiled 7 Nov 1866.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Dec 1861, ?; DB 4, 1 Jan 1862, 8; B 24, 24 Nov 1866, 872; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 363; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 112

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1869
Nature: Marble statue of Sir Dominic Corrigan, unveiled 3 Jun 1869.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 361; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 114

Name: MCCURDY & MITCHELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1873
Nature: Remodelling of racquet court to make second college hall.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 484.


Name: JOY, ALBERT BRUCE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1874
Nature: Statue of Robert Graves, MD, FRS.
Refs: Model exh. RA 1878, no. 1466;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 134(illus.).

Name: MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: 1889
Nature: Adds, comprising ladies' and gentlemen's waiting rooms, 'with lavatories and w.c.'s attached' to accommodate increased numbers of students coming forward for examination. Contractor: J. & W. Beckett. Heating and sanitary arrangements by Maguire & Son.
Refs: IB 31, 1 Feb 1889, 40

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: ?
Nature: Alts. & adds. (not necessarily by WMM)
Refs: Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin V, Roll 28

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 006 (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS)
Date: ?
Nature: Statue of William Stokes in hall. Unveiled March 16, 1876.
Refs: IB 18, 15 Mar,1 Apr 1876, 83,90; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 363; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 115