Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, DUFFERIN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, DUFFERIN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Date: 1907-09;1932
Nature: New 3-storey children's infirmary containing 8 wards for 200 children, for Belfast Board of Guardians. Opened 23 Jun 1909 by Lady Hermione Blackwood. Contractor: William Dowling, Cromwell Rd (£8,475). Alts., new offices, 1914. Operating theatre, 1916. Extensions to be made at cost of £27,000, 1929.  Ava Hospital Wing, 1932. Cost: £31,000
Refs: IB 49, 4 May,15,29 Jun,13 Jul 1907, 324,425,457,490; 51, 12 Jun 1909, 373; 56, 20 Jun 1914, 391; 58, 8 Apr 1916, 165; 71, 16 Feb,14 Sep,23 Nov 1929, 150,826,1057; Building News 96, 25 Jun 1909, 943; Architect & Building News 122, 20 Sep 1929, 362;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 104,351, 230-231(illus.),352-3.