Calvert House, Belfast
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Calvert House, Belfast
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 11 Oct 2009
Calvert House, Castle Junction Image, was completed in 1985 to an award-winning design by Kennedy Fitzgerald. The tragedy was that it replaced Lanyon’s Ulster Club of 1863. Whatever the architectural merits of the present building it upset the harmony of that part of the street (see page 2 of “No Mean City” – Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast 1983). The Ulster Club (if my memory is correct) was, unfortunately, beyond saving (by the standards of the time). Continue to Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.599471
Longitude
-5.929654