1 8 Guide to Belfast. 



THE STREETS AND CHIEF PUBLIC 

 BUILDINGS. 



OF the numerous public buildings, none are of early 

 date or possess any interest for the antiquary. The 

 city is notable more particularly for its spacious well- 

 kept streets, and the buildings, at once substantial and hand- 

 some ; some of the newer business thoroughfares, as Royal 

 Avenue, are particularly fine. The New City Hall, how- 

 ever, promises to be the centre of the city. The extensive 



NEW CITY HAI.L (iN COURSfc, OF Kkh 



business house of Robinson & Cleaver, one of the show- 

 places of the city, at the corner of Donegall Place ; that of 

 Richardson, Sons & Owden, facing the City Hall; the 

 large range of buildings erected by the Scottish Provident 

 Society, and the Y. M.CA. Buildings, already give the 

 lead to others in course of erection, or in anticipation, in 

 the neighbourhood of Donegall Square ; while the New 

 Technical Institute, on the grounds of the Royal 

 Academical Institution, and the New Presbyterian 

 Assembly Hall, now in course of erection, will still further 

 contribute striking important buildings in the leading streets. 

 Belfast has its wants fairly well supplied with public 

 buildings of various kinds — churches, colleges, educational 

 and other institutions, hospitals, banks, hotels, clubs, etc. ; 



