Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ANGLESEA ROAD, PUBLIC LIBRARY

Name: KAYE-PARRY, ROSS & HENDY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ANGLESEA ROAD, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1926-29
Nature: New neo-Georgian 2-storey red brick building. Designed by Hendy.  Builder: G. & T. Crampton (£6702.11.0).  Tenders invited for supplying fittings, Jun 1927.  Cost of completed building, £7,700 (sum of grant from Carnegie United Kingdom Trust).   Opened 27 Sep 1929.
Refs: IB 68, 7,21 Aug 1926, 620,651;  Irish Times, 16 Jun 1927, 28 Jul 1927(illus.), 28 Sep 1929;   RIAI Year Book (1959), 9;  Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 216-7(illus.);  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 73-74(illus.).