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), ?. |