Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English architect, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 72, and A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture(1985), 93-95. During World War I, when his practice in England dwindled, Frank Atkinson came to Dublin and worked in the office of ASHLIN & COLEMAN. ASHLIN & COLEMAN. (1) He was probably responsible for the design for rebuilding Clery's department store in O'Connell Street, Dublin, after the Easter Rising, which is effectively a reduced version of his earlier design for Selfridge's in London. On 10 January 1918 he lectured to the AAI on hotels.(2)

An undated drawing of sections of the façade of the GEC. Building, London, Kingsway, by R. Frank Atkinson is in the AAI, T.J. Cullen Collection, Acc. 85/74, Bin 42, Roll 13.

Robert Frank Atkinson is not to be confused with ROBERT ATKINSON [2]. ROBERT ATKINSON [2].

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(1) AAI Green Book(1918), 7.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 021-27 (CLERY & CO.)
Date: 1917-1921;1925
Nature: RFA, then working for Ashlin & Coleman probably responsible for the design for rebuilding Clery's department store in O'Connell Street, Dublin, after the Easter Rising, which is effectively a reduced version of his earlier design for Selfridge's in London. Reinforced concrete Hennebique frame.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 218.