Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 030-32 (GENERAL POST OFFICE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 030-32 (GENERAL POST OFFICE)
Date: 1886a
Nature: 3-storey building with arcades of Romanesque windowsm machicolated cornice and curved corner into Garville St. Opened 1886. (Demolished 1985 for Castlecourt development.).
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 61; Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 287

Name: RIPPINGHAM, THOMAS FRANCIS O.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 030-32 (GENERAL POST OFFICE)
Date: 1937
Nature: Smithfield extension.
Refs: David Evans, An Introduction to Modern Ulster Architecture (1977), 2(illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 301

Name: COCHRANE, ROBERT
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ROYAL AVENUE, NO. 030-32 (GENERAL POST OFFICE)
Date: ?
Nature: Extensions
Refs: Drawings in OPW (X.2.2); IB 49, 27 Jul 1907, 518(illus)