Aerial view from south west
SC 1679484
Description Aerial view from south west
Date 23/2/1988
Catalogue Number SC 1679484
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 55927 CN
Scope and Content Aerial view of the Caledonian Hotel, west end of Princes Street, Edinburgh The Caledonian Hotel was designed in 1899-1903 by Dick Peddie and George Washington Browne for the Caledonian Railway Company on the site of the old Caledonian Railway terminus. Its monumental entrance was originally the entrance to the station. The hotel, with its long red sandstone façade facing east, is almost V-shaped with the point towards Princes Street. In 1970, following the closure of the station in 1965, the V of the hotel was made into an A by the addition of a red-brick extension. The two great railway hotels, the Caledonian Hotel at one end of Princes Street, and the former North British Hotel (now the Balmoral), built for the North British Railway at the opposite end, were rivals not only in size but also in Edwardian opulence. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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