Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, COBH, ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, COBH, ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB
Date: 1851;1866ca
Nature: JB prepares designs for same, but design by Antony Salvin chosen as architect instead. E & W wings containing private room and billiard room respectively added to JB's design 1866ca.
Refs: B 9, 21 16 Aug 1851, 517; 10, 13 Nov 1852, 720; Hunt's Yachting Magazine 3 (1854), 281 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork);  Cork Constitution, 17 Jul 1866 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork).

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, COBH, ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB
Date: 1853-54
Nature: HH supervising architect for same.  Architect: Antony Salvin. Builder: Cassidy.
Refs: Cork Constitution, 25 Jun 1853 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Dec 2011);

Name: SALVIN, ANTHONY (SENIOR) #
Building: CO. CORK, COBH, ROYAL CORK YACHT CLUB
Date: 1853-54
Nature: New yacht club house. Supervising architect: Henry Hill.  Builder: Cassidy. Not started until spring of 1852;  first general meeting in new club house held 4 May 1854. (AS chosen as architect after John Benson had prepared designs.)
Refs: B 10, 13 Nov 1852, 720; 11, 2 Jul 1853, 424;  Cork Constitution, 25 Jun 1853 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Dec 2011);  Hunt's Yachting Magazine 3 (1854), 281 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork);  Jill Allibone, Anthony Salvin (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1988), ?.