Leo Fitzgerald House Hogan Place Erne Street Upper Dublin 2
The second post featuring the work of Herbert Simms following on from O’Carroll Villas.
These homes were named for Civil War hero Leo Fitzgerald.
London born Herbert George Simms was responsible for the building of some 17,000 new working class dwellings in his time in office as Dublin’s pioneering Housing Architect, ranging from beautiful Art Deco flat schemes in the inner-city to new suburban landscapes.
Freestanding L-plan multiple-bay four-storey social housing block, built c. 1940, having attached stairs tower to east elevation. Flat roof concealed behind rendered parapet with concrete coping, and having rendered chimneystacks with concrete copings and clay pots. Flemish bond brown brick and rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with rendered surrounds and sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings with rendered surrounds and timber doors to galleries. Square-headed door opening in attached stairs tower with mild-steel double-leaf gate, concrete platform and steps.
Statue of Sacred Heart to south elevation.
Modern Mooch 
Fitzgerald house wasn’t built in the forties it was built in Fifties
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Dear Anon – thanks for your input, I took the date from The Buildings of Ireland who list it as Circa 1940, Dublin housing was designed by City Architect Herbert Simms employed between 1932 and 1948, though obviously his designs may well have been built after these dates. https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50100335/leo-fitzgerald-house-hogan-place-erne-street-upper-dublin-2-dublin
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Not a Simms building
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All the institutional sources list it as a Simms building – do you know otherwise, happy to amend if you have another source of verification – thanks Steve.
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