Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND)
Name: | HOPCRAFT, ROBERT GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND) |
Date: | 1929 |
Nature: | RGH involved in remodelling of existing Francis Johnston building, for OPW. (Including filling in of archway and opening ground floor side windows, creating new central hall &c. Contractor: G. & T. Crampton. |
Refs: |
Photograph in IAA, Acc. 92/75; obituary in RIAI Yearbook 1948, 34; Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 72(illus.) |
Name: | BYRNE, THOMAS JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND) |
Date: | 1929 |
Nature: | Remodelling of existing building (formerly part of Bank or Ireland) by Office of Public Works to form new premises for Currency Commission. New stonework on facade of Portland stone and Ballyknocken granite. Carving by Pettain (brackets) and Mather (urns). TJB principal architect. C.W. Pemberton, FSI, assistant architect. Contractors: G. & T. Crampton Ltd, Hmmersmith Works, Ballsbridge. |
Refs: | Irish Times, 13 Dec 1928 *(illus.); Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 411 (illus.). |
Name: | BECKETT & HARRINGTON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND) |
Date: | 1953 |
Nature: | New office block & vaults |
Refs: | IB 95, 18 Jul 1953, 755 |
Name: | ALCOCK, JOSEPH PATRICK |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FOSTER PLACE, NO. 006 (CURRENCY COMMISSION ALIAS CENTRAL BANK OF IRELAND) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Improvements for OPW |
Refs: | Irish Times, 8 Jul 1966 (obituary); Oibre 4 (Sep 1966), 3 (obituary) |