Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE EAST, NO. 001-3 (OCEAN BUILDINGS)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE EAST, NO. 001-3 (OCEAN BUILDINGS)
Date: 1899-1902
Nature: New building, for Ocean Accident & Guarantee Co. Perpendicular style with turrets and gables. Ballochmyle sandstone. Architectural sculpture sculpture by Edgar Winter. Stained glass by Ward & Partners. Contractor: Robert Corry. Design claimed by Robert Young in Who's Who in Architecture(1923).
Refs: PRONI, W.H. Stephens & Sons papers, D1898/1/33; IB 41, 15 Dec 1899, 213; 43, 16 Jan 1901, 599; 44, 20 Nov 1902, 1488; B 83, 29 Nov 1902, 508; Building News 85, 20 Nov 1903, (illus. in supplement); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 116,123(illus.);  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016),22(illus.),88-89(illus.),95(illus.), 240(illus.), 254-255(illus)

Name: WARD & PARTNERS *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE EAST, NO. 001-3 (OCEAN BUILDINGS)
Date: 1899-1902
Nature: Stained glass by Ward & Partners.
Refs: B 83, 29 Nov 1902, 508

Name: WINTER, JOSEPH (OR JAMES) EDGAR *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE EAST, NO. 001-3 (OCEAN BUILDINGS)
Date: 1902a
Nature: 'There are many good grotesques and gargoyles, carved with much spirit by Winter and Thompson'(Brett)
Refs: IB 46, 27 Feb 1904, 106; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Belfast (2nd ed., 1985), 71; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 65 (no. 148); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 116,123(illus.)