Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, DUBLIN SOCIETY

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, DUBLIN SOCIETY
Date: 1787
Nature: New stores being completed. Building consists of one long room, for the committee, and two others 'for the reception of such improvements in such arts as facilitate agriculture or manufactures and do not occupy much space'.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 28-30 Jun 1787

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, DUBLIN SOCIETY
Date: 1796
Nature: Designed by HAB, perhaps with Robert Parke.
Refs: James Meenan & Desmond Clarke, The Royal Dublin Society 1731-1981 (1981), 58-59; John Turpin, A School of art in Dublin since the eighteenth century (1995), 63

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, DUBLIN SOCIETY
Date: 1798
Nature: Statue of Hibernia or Minerva over entrance of building. (Moved to Leinster House and thence to RDS showgrounds at Ballsbridge.)
Refs: Henry F. Berry, History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 97(n.1); Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 71-2

Name: PARKE, EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, DUBLIN SOCIETY
Date: 1807-1810
Nature: Extension to house new drawing schools, in use by late 1810.
Refs: Royal Dublin Society proceedings (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); J. Turpin, A School of Art in Dublin since the Eighteenth Century (1995), 121