Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: BURKE, MARTIN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS)
Date: 1912
Nature: With H.G. Leask and Andrew Robinson for OPW.
Refs: Drawings formerly in OPW, Stephen's Green, now(?) in National Archives, Office of Public Works collection (not in online catalogue)Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4.

Name: LEASK, HAROLD GRAHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS)
Date: 1912-1915
Nature: New headquarters replacing former headquarters in Exchange Court.; 'the building of which perhaps he[HGL] was most proud' (Oibre). With A. Robinson and M.J. Burke. Design criticised as being too austere in Irish Times.
Refs: Drawings formerly in OPW, Stephen's Green, now(?) in National Archives, Office of Public Works collection (not in online catalogue);  Irish Times, 8 Jan 1916;   Oibre 7 (May 1969), 11;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4.



Name: ROBINSON, ANDREW
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PEARSE STREET, NO. 001-8 (POLICE HEADQUARTERS)
Date: 1913
Nature: New. In course of erection, Aug 1913. Designed with M.J. Burke and H.G. Leask.  Walls of Co. Dublin granite with Ballyknockan grantie dressings. Contractor: J. & R. Thompson, Fairview..
Refs: IB 55, 2 Aug,8 Nov 1913, 502,708,722(illus.); Building News 105, 8 Aug 1913, 203;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 453-4.