Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1840-43
Nature: New. Designed 1840 and executed 184/-1843. Contractor: Charles Carolin.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Sep 1861, 637; B 19, 30 Nov 1861, 823; F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 152;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 300.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1851
Nature: Convalescent hospital for use of constabulary reserve to be built.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 19 Jul 1851.

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1861
Nature: Adds.. 2 existing blocks to be extended, with returns, to form, with short length of boundary wall, rectangle enclosing about 13 acres. Adds. to contain commandant's, adjutant's, medical officer's and barrack master's quarters, sergeants' mess, school, dormitories & stabling. .
Refs: DB 3, 15 Sep 1861, 637; B 19, 30 Nov 1861, 823

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1863;1866
Nature: Officers' mess, 1863. Guard room & magazine, 1866. (According to Casey, ETO also designed riding school, 1864.)
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 407; drawing(s) for guard room & magazine (also initialled R.J.S[tirling]) in NA, OPW records, old ref. A.6.;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 300.

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1866-67
Nature: New guard houses and magazine completed. Builder: James Freeman.
Refs: Drawings, 1866, initialled by R.J. Stirling and E.T. Owen in NA, OPW drawings collection, old ref. D.6; IB 10, 15 Jan 1868, 24

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1871
Nature: Works. By ETO?
Refs: IB 13, 1 Sep 1871, 230

Name: MELLON, THOMAS JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, POLICE DEPOT
Date: 1911
Nature: Drainage works. Contractor: Baird Ltd.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0925, B21/66