Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, NO. 077?, W. COLLINS  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, VICTORIA STREET, NO. 077?, W. COLLINS
Date: 1876
Nature: New warehouse, for W. Collins, wholesale drug merchant. Suffolk brick and Dumfries red sandstone. Carvings of Galen, Esculapius & Paracelsus by Stevens. Contractor: Dixon & Cay. Y & M exhibit design at Belfast AA, May 1876 and 'neat etching' at Belfast Industrial Exhibition, 1876 (IB describes style as 'debased Flemish Gothic').
Refs: IB 18, 15 May,15 Jun,15 Oct 1876, 142,172,307; Architect 16, 16 Sep 1876, 164(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 243(illus.)