Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CARNEGIE STREET, PUBLIC LIBRARY

Name: HOBART, HENRY WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, CARNEGIE STREET, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1903-1906
Nature: Red brick with red sandstone dressings, 'free treatment of modified Gothic'. Opened 8 Jan 1906 (or 6 Feb?). Builder: W. Callaghan, Maralin, Co. Down.
Refs: IB 45, 10 Sep,31 Dec 1903, 1960,3058,3072; 46, 13 Feb 1904, 94; 48, 13 Jan 1906, 30; B 90, 3 Feb 1906, 124; Eugene T. Corbett, 'The Architecture of Henry Hobart and Samuel Heron' (unpublished dissertation for the Diploma in Advanced Architectural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), pp.25-27, figs.63-65; Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 193-195(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 431-2.