Constructed using a steel frame faced with brick and Portland stone dressing around 1900, it was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising.
He also designed a number of Munster & Leinster Bank branches, including in Limerick and Cork, as well as flour mills and factories.
[1][3] Beckett was an active member of the Architectural Association of Ireland from 1900, serving in various offices almost continuously between 1901 and 1920, including as president in 1909 and 1919.
From 1905 he was also a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, serving as president from 1932 to 1934, and sitting on the town planning committee from 1927 to 1930 and 1937 to 1942.
He was a member and an officer in the Civics Institute of Ireland from 1921, and had a particular interest in the clearance of slums and the building of children's playgrounds.
He was appointed chair of the organising committee of the Dublin civic survey in 1923, and in this capacity co-authored the new town plan.