Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, NO. 014-26 (GROSVENOR HALL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GROSVENOR ROAD, NO. 014-26 (GROSVENOR HALL)
Date: 1926-27
Nature: New hall on site of old one for Grosvenor Hall Mission. Old hall demolished, Jan 1926. Already 'well advanced' when memorial stones laid, 19 Nov 1926. Officially opened, 22 Sep 1927. Large hall to seat 1,800 entered from Grosvenor Rd; Minor Hall (Ker Memorial Hall) to seat 500 children entered from Glengall St. 4 shops on ground floor Offices on upper floors. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. (Demolished.)
Refs: IB 68, 9 Jan,30 Oct,27 Nov,25 Dec 1926, 18,822,888,956; 69, 17 Sep,1 Oct 1927, 692,718(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 158,178;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 230(illus.),349.