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DOWLING, ROBERT HENRY
- Born: - Died: 1973
Architect, of Dublin. Robert Dowling, who was possibly born in England, received the B.Arch. degree from Liverpool University School of Architecture. He was practising as an architect in Dublin by1938, when he designed alterations to the Pavilion Cinema, Dun Laoghaire,(1) though he appears to have opened an office only after the Second World War. He became a member of the RIAI in 1946. All his commissions to be recorded in the Irish Builder date from the late forties and fifties. He had emigrated to Canberra, Australia, by the spring of 1959 and registered as an architect in New South Wales in 1961. His Dublin practice was taken over by THOMAS PAUL KENNEDY.& #160; He died in Australia in 1973. He had married in Dublin in 1943.
A sketch perspective view of an ambitious design for a Roman Catholic cathedral in Merrion Square, Dublin, signed R.H. Dowling delt. 1934 - possibly a student project - is in the Diocesan Archives, Clonliffe.
AAI: elected member, 1937; no longer a member by 1941.
RIAI: elected member, 1946; raised to fellow, 1958.(2).
RIBA: associate by 1937.(3)
Address: Work: 8 Merrion Square,<=1948-1958.
Home: 25 Frankfort Avenue, Rathgar, 1937-1938; 14 Rosebank Road, Chidwell, Liverpool, 1939; 8 St Helen's Road, Booterstown, 1948; St Helens, 45 Blarney Crescent, Campbell, Canberra, 1959.
See WORKS.
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All information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from RIAI and AAI membership lists, www.familysearch.org and from Gerard Kennedy, Eilise McGuane, Brian O'Connell and Karin O'Flanagan, Leinster House Dublin Urban Area (MUBC Urban Study, 2009), 124.
(1) IAA, PKS 0023.
(2) RIAI Year Book (1959), 34.
(3) Although he is designated ARIBA in the membership lists of the AAI, he does not appear in the RIBA membership records (information from Jane Oldfield, RIBA Library).
25 work entries listed in chronological order for DOWLING, ROBERT HENRY
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| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, MARINE ROAD, PAVILION CINEMA |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Nature: | Adds. & alts. Contractor: S. Phillips. |
| Refs: | IAA, PKS 0023 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARKERHILL (RATHMINES), JEFFERSON SMURFIT & SON |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Nature: | Boiler house. Plans approved by Corporation. |
| Refs: | IB 91, 30 Apr 1949, 414 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUNDRUM, ANNAVILLE GROVE, HOUSES (016) |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Nature: | 16 houses for State Officials' Housing Society. £19965 each. Contractor: Gillan & Co. |
| Refs: | IB 91, 10 Dec 1949, 1170 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOLLYBANK ROAD, NO. 055 |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Nature: | Stores at rere for L. Besagni. Plans approved by Corporation. |
| Refs: | IB 91, 12 Nov 1949, 1068 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WOODVILLE TERRACE, FLATS |
| Date: | 1949 |
| Nature: | New flats for L. Besagni. Plans approved by Corporation. |
| Refs: | IB 91, 2 Apr 1949, 302 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STILLORGAN ROAD (DONNYBROOK), WOODBINE ESTATE, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1949-1950 |
| Nature: | Houses on various sites, for R. Keegan (site 12,14,15), Mrs Sauerzweig (site 67), G.J. Colley (site 3), Dr P. Coakley (site 78),Miss Byrne (bungalow), Mr McGovern, and ESB sub station. |
| Refs: | IB 91, 12,26 Nov 1949, 1068,1118; 92, 4 Mar,13 May,8,22 Jul,30 Sep,9 Dec 1950, 224,498,714,774,1052,1342 |
| Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, LANSDOWNE PARK, CRESCENT ESTATES, HOUSES (022) |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Nature: | 22 new houses for State Officials' Housing Society. |
| Refs: | IB 92, 8 Aug 1950, 830 |
| Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, SALTHILL, HOUSES (044) |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erection of same for State Officials' Housing Society. |
| Refs: | IB 92, 8 Jul 1950, 716 |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, ?, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Nature: | 20 houses in 8 groups in Co. Sligo, 1951. 8 houses in various parts of Co. Sligo, 1957. For Sligo County Council. . |
| Refs: | IB 93, 28 Apr 1951, 458; 99, 28 Dec 1957, 1053 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CROYDON PARK AVENUE, NO. 001 |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Nature: | New garage for M. Garrett. Plans approved by Corporation. |
| Refs: | IB 93, 4 Aug 1951, 816 |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILDARE, LENABOY ESTATE, HOUSES (034) |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Nature: | 34 new houses. First part of Lenaboy Estate housing and development scheme. |
| Refs: | IB 93, 18 Aug 1951, 872 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SHREWSBURY ROAD, NO. 018 (WOODSIDE) |
| Date: | 1951;1952;1954;1956 |
| Nature: | Alts. for Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, 1951. Caretaker's bungalow, 1952. New college of pharmacy, opened summer 1954. Laboratory, 1956. |
| Refs: | IB 93, 27 Oct 1951, 1112, 94, 7 Jun 1952, 596; 96, 3 Jul 1954, 651; 98, 14 Jul 1956, 641 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD SOUTH, GILLAN & CO. |
| Date: | 1952 |
| Nature: | New workshops. Plans approved by Corporation. |
| Refs: | IB 94, 16 Feb 1952, 82 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ARTANE, ELM PARK ESTATE |
| Date: | 1953-1955 |
| Nature: | Houses, shops, garage on various sites on estate. For J.P. Noonan, L.J. Murphy |
| Refs: | IB 95, 6 Jun,21 Nov 1953, 589,1289; 96, 8 May 18 Dec 1954, 465,1249; 97, 12 Feb,12 Mar,2,30 Jul 1955, 153,253,691,783 |
| Building: | CO. DONEGAL, CARNDONAGH, DISTRICT HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | New hospital for Donegal County Council. Tenders invited. |
| Refs: | IB 96, 25 Sep,9 Oct 1954, 951,1006 |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, BALLINAMORE, DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting four dispensaries at Dromahaire, Kinlough, Ballinamore and Mohill. For Leitrim County Council. |
| Refs: | IB 96, 4 Dec 1954, 1210 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLANBRASSIL STREET LOWER, NO. 098A-99 (MULCAHY BROS.) |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | New factory and connecting bridge over Dowker's Lane. (Also electricity sub-station for ESB, 1956). |
| Refs: | IB 96, 2 Jan,4 Dec 1954; 98, 11 Feb,21 Apr 1956, 111,359 |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, DROMAHAIR, DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting four dispensaries at Dromahaire, Kinlough, Ballinamore and Mohill. For Leitrim County Council. |
| Refs: | IB 96, 4 Dec 1954, 1210 |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, MOHILL, DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting four dispensaries at Dromahaire, Kinlough, Ballinamore and Mohill. For Leitrim County Council. |
| Refs: | IB 96, 4 Dec 1954, 1210 |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, KINLOUGH, DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting four dispensaries at Dromahaire, Kinlough, Ballinamore and Mohill. For Leitrim County Council. |
| Refs: | IB 96, 4 Dec 1954, 1210 |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, GREEVAGH, DISPENSARY & DISPENSARY RESIDENCE |
| Date: | 1955 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting same. For Sligo County Council. |
| Refs: | IB 97, 31 Dec 1955, 1360 |
| Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, GALWAY TEXTILE PRINTERS |
| Date: | 1956 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting new factory. |
| Refs: | IB 98, 30 Jun 1956, 607 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 056 |
| Date: | 1957 |
| Nature: | Alts. |
| Refs: | IB 99, 19 Oct 1957, 829 |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, TEXTILE FACTORY |
| Date: | 1957p |
| Nature: | New nylon processing factory. Tenders invited Sep 1957. Work started Nov 1957. Contractor: McKenna Bros., Churchtown Estimated cost £118,000. (Is this the same as the factory which featured in Architectural Survey (1962) (see below)?) |
| Refs: |
IB 99, 21 Sep,16 Nov 1957, 764,919. |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, TEXTILE FACTORY |
| Date: | 1962a |
| Nature: | New factory, with T.P. Kennedy (possibly as executant architect after Dowling's departure for Australia?).. Main Contractor: J. & D. McIlvenna. (Is this the same factory as the one started in Nov 1957 (see above)?). |
| Refs: | Architectural Survey (1962), 11,20(illus.). |