Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Dublin. James Arthur Douglas, a son of Senator James Green Douglas, was born on 8 February 1915 and attended Rathgar Junior School and Newtown School, Waterford. After taking a course in experimental science at Trinity College, Dublin, he was articled to BRADBURY & EVANS  BRADBURY & EVANS in September 1932. He was a Quaker and was architect to the Quaker Bloomfield Hospital, Dublin. He died in 1990.

AAI: member, 1932.
RIAI: member, 1940; fellow between 1955 and 1960; still in yearbook for 1987 but no longer listed in 1991.

Addresses: Knocknashane, Brennanstown Rd, Carrickmines, 1948-49; 18 Wexford St, Dublin, from circa 1950-51 onwards.

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References

All information in this entry is from Douglas's application for registration as a probationer of the RIAI, 1932, in IAA, Acc.93/136, Box 59, and from D.M. Butler, The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland (2004), 232, and AAI and RIAI membership lists.


5 work entries listed in chronological order for DOUGLAS, JAMES ARTHUR


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, FOXROCK, HAINAULT ROAD, HOUSE
Date: 1945a
Nature: International Modern style, two-storey house 'for two adults and a servant'.
Refs: IB 87, 7 Apr 1945, 155

Building: CO. DUBLIN, CARRICKMINES, BRENNANSTOWN ROAD, KNOCKNASHANE
Date: 1946
Nature: International modern style. Designed by JAD for his father, James Green Douglas..
Refs: RIAI Yearbook (1946), 53(illus.); AJ , 21 Aug 1947, 169-171(illus.);  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 77,78(illus.).


Building: CO. DUBLIN, SHANKILL, BALLYBRIDE, HOUSE
Date: 1949
Nature: -
Refs: RIAI Year book (1949), 28-29(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CRUMLIN, JAMES HENNESSY & CO. LTD
Date: 1955a
Nature: New factory by J. Arthur Douglas & Associates.
Refs: Architectural Survey (1955), 32

Building: CO. DUBLIN, STILLORGAN, CHILDREN'S HOUSE
Date: 1955a
Nature: New. By J. Arthur Douglas & Associates.
Refs: Architectural Survey (1955), 26(illus.)