Architect and civil engineer, of Dublin, active from the 1890s until circa 1920. Francis Curran Caldbeck, the second son of William Francis Cope Caldbeck by his wife Annabelle, née Hugo,(1) was born on 19 August 1869.(2) He served a three-year pupillage in the offaice of THOMAS DEANE &THOMAS DEANE & amp; SON and then spent a short period in the office of the engineer JOHN HENRY RYAN.JOHN HENRY RYAN.(3) In 1904 he won the first prize offered by the Great Southern & Western Railway Co. for the best plan of a workman's cottage,(4) and in the same year he was one of the two shortlisted competitors for the Blackrock Carnegie Library.(5) In about 1911 he entered into partnership with CHARLES JOHN DUNLOPCHARLES JOHN DUNLOP , with whom he practised as CALDBECK &CALDBECK & amp; DUNLOP DUNLOP until circa 1920, when he appears to have retired. He died in 1956.(6)
Addresses:(9) Work: 3 St Andrew Street, 1896; 2 St Andrew Street, 1898-1916; 18 Ely Place, <=1917->=1919. Home: Southill Avenue, Blackrock, 1896; Netley, Southill Avenue, Blackrock, 1900; St Ann's, 12 The Hill, Monkstown, Co. Dublin, 1921.
Pair of semi-detached red brick houses for Captain John Lewis Riall. Builder: P.J. Tracy.
Refs:
Patricia McKenna, 'Development on the Riall Estate in Donnybrook West 1884-1904' (article developed from research for DUIM certificate in Local History Studies, 2007; copy in IAA), 20-23,fig. 14.