Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, SMILEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL

Name: FITZSIMONS, NICHOLAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, LARNE, SMILEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL
Date: 1902-1903
Nature: New hospital with frontage of 140 ft. Brick and pebble dash. Site and cost of building provided by H.H. Smiley. FS laid 15 Oct 1902. Opened Oct 1903. Estimated cost £5,000 but eventual cost £10,000. Builder: James Ferris, Larne.
Refs: IB 44, 23 Oct 1902, 1456, illus. in supplement; Building News 83, 3 Oct 1902, 467; 85, 30 Oct 1903, 602; B 85, 7 Nov 1903, 469; R.M. Young, Belfast and the Province of Ulster in the 20th Century (1909), 147-8(illus.); Who's Who in Architecture 1923, 91; Paul Larmour, 'An Edwardian Stylist', Perspective 4 (Jan/Feb 1996), 59-60(illus.)