John McCurdy (1824 – 12 September 1885) was an Irish architect.
He received his professional training in the office of
Frederick Darley, architect to
Trinity College, Dublin
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. He succeeded Benjamin Holebrook as clerk of works at Trinity College in 1850. Shortly afterwards he became the official college architect, a post which he retained until his death.
In 1872 he formed an architectural partnership with William Mansfield Mitchell, which was dissolved in 1882.
[''Irish Builder'', 8 September 1956]
He was a member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects and was president for the last ten years of his life of the
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. He was a member of the
Grand Lodge of Ireland
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(Freemasons) and designed the
Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland (now a hotel) which opened in 1882 as well as the
Shelbourne Hotel.
Bibliography
* M. Daly, M. Hearn & P. Pearson, ''Dublin's Victorian Houses'' (1998), pp. 160–161.
References
1824 births
1885 deaths
Architects from Dublin (city)
19th-century Irish architects
Irish Freemasons
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