Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)
Name: | MURRAY & DENNY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.) |
Date: | 1852 |
Nature: | Murray & Denny win 2nd prize of £15 for design for 'monster house' in Sackville St, opposite Post Office. (Is |
Refs: | B 10, 9 Oct 1852, 641 |
Name: | CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.) |
Date: | 1852-1856 |
Nature: | WFC winner of 1st premium. Authorship disputed with W.D. Butler. WFC paid £300 for work on same. |
Refs: | B 10, 9 Oct 1852, 641; 14, 3 May 1856, 241; M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 424,426 |
Name: | BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.) |
Date: | 1852-53 |
Nature: | WDB's design selected despite award of 1st & 2nd premiums to others. Preparations being made, Nov 1852. To have 82 ft long frontage 'of an unusually ornamented description'. Building constructed in 'a little over three months'. Cost: £40,000. Contractor: Beardwood. Refurbishment and alterations, 1872, carried out by Entwistle, York St; gas fittings and ormolu work by Gregg & Son, Sackville St. |
Refs: | For Butler's dispute with Caldbeck over this matter, see RIAI Council minutes, 4 Mar 1853 and 20 May 1853, pp.114-115,119; B 10, 9 Oct,13 Nov 1852, 641,721; 15, 5 Dec 1857, 710; Irish Times, 1 Apr 1872 (long description of building).watercolour of exterior by Michael Angelo Hayes in NGI, Cat. 2980; photograph of interior after fire in RIA; see also Peter Costello, The Heart of the City (Dublin, 1992); M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 426; Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 21 (1858), 34 |
Name: | GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Plans by CG for 'McSweeney & Co.'; probably McSwiney & Co., drapers, of 23-27 Sackville St. |
Refs: | MS list of plans in stable of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3)) |