Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL ROAD, PEOPLE'S PALACE

Name: ROOME, WILLIAM JOHN WATERMAN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL ROAD, PEOPLE'S PALACE
Date: 1903-04
Nature: To be built on site of Malone Felt Works. To cost: £12,000. WJW.Roome hon. secretary and architect. A section opened 1904. Contractor:McLaughlin & Harvey.
Refs: Building News 85, 23 Oct 1903, 544; IB 46, 8 Oct 1904, 664 or 670(illus. in supplement); B 87, 24 Dec 1904, 673; Paul Larmour, 'From building site to mission field', Perspective May/June 1997, 45