Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: ENGLAND, LONDON, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: ENGLAND, LONDON, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
Date: 1887
Nature: One of 6 invited participants in limited competition for design of same (won by T.E. Collcutt).  'If it [TND's design] had any fault it was that of its splendour.' (Irish Times, 24 Jun 1887).  Designs exhibited at Irish Exhibition, Olympia, London, in Sep-Oct 1888.
Refs: Irish Times, 26 Feb,24,27 Jun 1887, 26 May 1888;  for this competition, see M.H. Port, Imperial London (Paul Mellon Centre, 1995),  185,186,187..