Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, RAILWAY STATION (DUBLIN, WICKLOW & WEXFORD RAILWAY TERMINUS)

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, RAILWAY STATION (DUBLIN, WICKLOW & WEXFORD RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1858-59
Nature: New terminus, for Dublin & Wicklow Railway. Engineer: W.R. Lefanu. Builder: J. Cunningham, Dalkey. Opened 7 Feb 1859 (Butt).
Refs: B 16, 11 Sep,3 Oct 1858, 622,723; DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 32; Letter from G.R. Mahon in Irish Times, 14 Jun 1962; R.J.V. Butt, The Directory of Railway Stations (1995), 83; Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 186(illus.),188-9;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 492-3.

Name: LE FANU, WILLIAM RICHARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, RAILWAY STATION (DUBLIN, WICKLOW & WEXFORD RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1859;1863
Nature: WRL engineer of station. Adds. in progress, 1863.
Refs: DB 5, 1 Aug 1863, 132;  J. Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12 (Oct 1975), 131.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARCOURT STREET, RAILWAY STATION (DUBLIN, WICKLOW & WEXFORD RAILWAY TERMINUS)
Date: 1877
Nature: 'A good many people would like to know the name of the ingenious, but somewhat erratic, architect who designed the staircase recently erected at Harcourt street terminus.'
Refs: Irish Times, 6 Apr 1877.