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FARRELL, WILLIAM ROBERT
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Architect and surveyor, of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, and Dublin, active in the 1850s and 1860s. William Robert Farrell may have been a son or other relation of the builder GEORGE FARRELL . According to an advertisement which he placed in the Freeman's Journal on 19 and 20 June 1855 on setting up in private practice in Dublin, he had served his apprenticeship under JOHN SKIPTON MULVANY and had then 'conducted business extensively under the Commissioners of Public Works'.(1) In 1859 he formed a brief partnership with ISAAC FARRELL which had ended by January 1862, when he moved his premises from Lincoln Place to Westland Row.(2)
RIAI: elected fellow, 21 May 1863;(3) struck off, 1866.(4)
Addresses:(5) 17 Wentworth Place, and Mullingar, 1853; 9 Great Brunswick Street, 1855-59; 25 Lincoln Place, 1860-62; 15 Westland Row, 1862-66.
Home: 47 Talbot Street, 1857; 45 Talbot Street, 1858-59; 1 Herbert Terrace, Ballsbridge, 1860-66.
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References
(1) Information from Frank Keohane, Mar 2010.
(2) Irish Times, 7 Jan 1862; Freeman's Journal, 7 Jan 1862.
(3) RIAI council meeting minutes, 8 Mar 1863, 5; general meeting minutes, 21 May 1863, 127.
(4) RIAI council meeting minutes, 30 Oct 1866, 60.
(5) From Post Office and Thom's directories.
10 work entries listed in chronological order for FARRELL, WILLIAM ROBERT
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Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, USHER'S ISLAND, NO. 006 & 007 (PROVINCIAL HOTEL) |
Date: | 1857 |
Nature: | New front and other works. Tenders invited, Aug 1857. |
Refs: |
Freeman's Journal, 11 Aug 1857 (information from Frank Keohane, Mar 2010). |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE AVENUE (CLONTARF), WALPOLE TERRACE |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | Terrace of 4 houses. With Isaac Farrell, for Francis Byrne. |
Refs: | DB 1, 1 Jul 1859, 85; Claire Gogarty, From Village to Suburb: The Building of Clontarf since 1760 (2013), 232 (illus.),170 (illus.). |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LEESON PARK, MOLYNEUX CHURCH & ASYLUM (CI) |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | WRF & Isaac Farrell unsuccessful competition entrants. |
Refs: | DB 1, 1 Apr 1859, 43 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 001 |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | Addition of conservatory & other apartments, with Isaac Farrell, for Dr Wilde Builder: Meighan. |
Refs: | DB 1, 1 Nov 1859, 145 |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, AUGHENTAINE |
Date: | 1860 |
Nature: | Italianate mansion. With Isaac Farrell, for Thomas Richardson Browne. |
Refs: | DB 2, 1 Oct 1860, 352 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SIMMONSCOURT HOUSE |
Date: | 1860 |
Nature: | Adds. to offices & improvements to residence. By Mssrs. Farrell (i.e. Isaac & Wm. R. Farrell) for B.M. Tabuteau. |
Refs: | DB 2, 1 Oct 1860, 352 |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, ESPLANADE, HOUSES (004) |
Date: | 1861 |
Nature: | With Isaac Farrell. |
Refs: | DB 3, 1 Sep 1861, 620; William Garner, Bray Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1980), 54 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, GLENART AVENUE, HOUSES (002) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | 2 semi-detached houses. |
Refs: | DB 4, 15 Mar 1862, 69 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, EARLSFORT TERRACE, EXHIBITION PALACE & WINTER GARDEN |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | Competition entrant. |
Refs: | DB 4, 15 Oct 1862, 262 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STRAND ROAD (MERRION), HOUSES (004) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | 4 detached villa houses to be build at Old Merrion on the beach road. |
Refs: | DB 4, 15 Mar 1862, 69 |