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Book TitleMore than concrete blocks : Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories : 1900-40
Chapter TitleCase study : Clontarf Automatic Telephone Exchange : Castle Avenue : Dublin 3, 1927
Chapter AuthorPollard, Carole
Book EditorRowley, Ellen
PublisherDublin City Council ; University College Dublin ; Four Courts Press
ISBN9781902703442
Date2016
Volume1
Page(s)pp158-165
Contentdetails, maps, photos, plans, text
Note(s)This suburban telephone exchange is significant, both functionally as an early infrastructural project of the Free State and, architecturally, as an excellent example of the stripped Classicism of the 1920s.
Subject(s)telephone exchanges ; industrial architecture ; suburbs ; brickwork ; timber ; stonework ; flood control ; Classical Revival
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