Architect, of Belfast. Jackson Grahame Smyth, a son of William John Smyth and his wife Sarah née Lorimer, was born in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim on 25 December 1880. He served his articles with THOMAS PENTLAND THOMAS PENTLAND in Belfast and was later an assistant in the office of VINCENT CRAIG VINCENT CRAIG . At some stage in his training he was selected as Queen's University Prizeman in Architecture. He worked in London for several years before returning to Belfast, where for a short period he held classes for architectural students under the auspices of the Ulster Society of Architects. In 1907 he was appointed one of the teachers in the newly formed Ulster School of Arts and Crafts. He was an excellent draughtsman and often executed perspective views for other architects, both in Ireland and England. After the First World War, in collaboration with ROBERT HANNA GIBSON ROBERT HANNA GIBSON , he entered a number of architectural competitions, gaining second place in the Ballymena Town Hall competition, and third place in the Belfast branch library competition. Apart from his competition entries, almost all his buildings recorded in the Irish Builder are domestic. In his latter years and up until his death, he worked in the office of YOUNG & YOUNG & amp; MACKENZIE MACKENZIE . He died on in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, on 23 October 1930. Apart from his architectural pursuits, he enjoyed acting and was a member of the Ulster Literary Theatre.
Address: 15 Clifton Crescent, Clifton, Belfast, 1911.
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References
All information in this entry is from the account of Smyth in IB 49, 2 Nov 1907, 753, and his obituary in IB 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994.
www.familysearch.org.
Census of Ireland, 1911, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Clifton/Clifton_Crescent/144771/ (last visited Mar 2009).
22 work entries listed in chronological order for SMYTH, JACKSON GRAHAME
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CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL ROAD, MONARCH LAUNDRY |
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1906 |
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Built on the Hennebique system of reinforced concrete. (Building originally intended to have two more floors.) 'The wall and interior columns and the connecting beams form a complete Ferro-Concrete skeleton, the outer walls consisting of hollow concrete blocks'.
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L. G. Mouchel & Partners, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete (1909), 227 (illus.) (in IAA collection, IEI 151); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 73 (no. 163)
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CO. ANTRIM, BALLYMENA, TOWN HALL |
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1920 |
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Competition entrant in collaboration with R.H. Gibson. Placed second. Assessor: W. Kaye-Parry.
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IB 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994
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SCOTLAND, PAISLEY, WAR MEMORIAL |
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1922 |
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Competition entrant in collaboration with R.H. Gibson. Received honorable mention. |
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IB 64, 8,22 Apr 1922, 210(illus.),275; 72, 8 Nov 1930, 994
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CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MALONE HILL PARK, NO. 001 |
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1926 |
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New house in Arts & Crafts style. |
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Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 94; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 20(illus.),331.
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CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, MYRTLEFIELD PARK, NO. 073 |
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1926 |
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New house in Arts & Crafts style with hipped froof and oriel window over porch.. |
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Paul Larmour, The Architectural Heritage of Malone & Stranmillis (UAHS, 1991), 140
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