Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, HOWARD STREET, NO. 042-50 (PRESBYTERIAN WAR MEMORIAL HOSTEL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, HOWARD STREET, NO. 042-50 (PRESBYTERIAN WAR MEMORIAL HOSTEL)
Date: 1922-1926
Nature: 7-storey sandstone block containing 250 bedrooms on corner of Brunswick St. FS laid 23 May 1923 by Earl Beatty, 1st Lord of the Admiralty. Opened 9 Jun 1926 by Mrs Frank Workman. Early Georgian in style. Level roof suitable for recreational purposes. Cost of building alone:£50,000.Total cost:: £76,000. Contractors: W.J. Campbell & Son (piles & foundations); F.B. McKee & Co. (superstructure). Design claimed by James Reid Young in Who's Who in Architecture (1923). (Extended 1963)
Refs: IB 64, 29 Jul 1922, 528; 65, 21 Apr,2,16 Jun 1923, 298,416,424,469; 67, 30 May 1925, 442; 68, 12 Jun 1926, 462; 760, 12 Mar 1928, 396(illus.); 71, 2 Mar 1929, 190; 72, 18 Jan 1930, 59; 74, 19 Nov 1932, 1052;  Irish Times,  24 May 1923;  Building News 124, 8 Jun 1923, 696;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 228-229(illus.),345-6. 

Name: TULLOCH & FITZSIMONS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, HOWARD STREET, NO. 042-50 (PRESBYTERIAN WAR MEMORIAL HOSTEL)
Date: 1932
Nature: Addition to hostel. Plans approved.
Refs: IB 74, 26 Mar 1932, 303