Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, GLENART AVENUE, VENDOME, WISBECH & GARMISCH

Name: BUCKLEY & O'GORMAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, GLENART AVENUE, VENDOME, WISBECH & GARMISCH
Date: 1939
Nature: 3 detached houses designed by John O'Gorman for his father, sister and another. (Garmisch was apparently designed for his sister, while O' Gorman's son, Ultan O'Gorman, says (Mar 2009) that Wisbech was designed for his father;  Vendome is slightly earlier in date, 1936ca.)
Refs: Drawings (plans, elevations, sections), dated 27 May 1939, and 6 photographs (including 1 of site) in IAA, Acc. 2009/082, Box 1;  2 photographs in IAA, Acc. 2002/146;   illustrated newspaper article, ca 1941, 'House of the Month: "Garmisch" the Happy Home' by Eileen L. Petrie and Uinseann MacEoin in John O'Gorman scrapbook, Acc.2009/82;  Architectural Design, Jul 1947, 183.