Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 040 (MURPHY & STEVENSON)
Name: | YOUNG & MACKENZIE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LINEN HALL STREET, NO. 040 (MURPHY & STEVENSON) |
Date: | 1900-02 |
Nature: | New 6-storey, 14-bay warehouse, adjacent to existing buildings, for Murphy & Stevenson, linen and handkerchief makers. Red brick with sparing use of red sandstone. Elaborate main entrance with rusticated pilasters, parapet, obelisks and sculptural detail; keystone show woman symbolizing the linen industry. Mahogany and teak woodwork in offices.Contractor: W.J. Campbell & Son, Ravenhill Rd. |
Refs: |
IB 42, 15 Jun 1900, 390; B 82, 31 May 1902, 545; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 67 (no. 152, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 215; Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 255(illus.). |