Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, MORRISON'S QUAY, SCHOOL OF COMMERCE & DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Name: HILL, HENRY HOUGHTON
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, MORRISON'S QUAY, SCHOOL OF COMMERCE & DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Date: 1931-1937
Nature: Building (delayed by dispute with tenant of house on site) started 1934. Contractor: John V. Sisk. £60,000.
Refs: Photograph in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe House, Co. Cork (copy photograph by IAA, neg. no. S/2326/6); IB 73, 11 Apr,1 Aug 1931, 299,685; 75, 11 Feb,17 Jun 1933, 102,504; 76, 10 Mar,2 Jun,14 Jul 1934, 201,477,602; 75th Anniversary Supplement, 23 Jul 1934, 26(illus.); 77, 13 Jul 1935, 599; 79, 20 Feb,12 Jun 1937, 151,517(illus.); 80, 25 Jun,3 Jun 1938, 519(illus.),727(illus.); Cork Examiner, 29 Jun 1933;  Irish Times, 5 Jul ,4 Oct 1934.

Name: MURPHY, SEAMUS *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, MORRISON'S QUAY, SCHOOL OF COMMERCE & DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Date: 1935
Nature: Limestone panels (Man at Bench, Woman Cooking) on either side of main entrance door.
Refs: Peter Murray, ed., Séamus Murphy (1907-1975) Sculptor (Crawford Art Gallery & Gandon Editions, 2007), 262(illus.).