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General view of street from south west from 117 Princes Street with the Palace Hotel in the foreground.
ED 11454
Description General view of street from south west from 117 Princes Street with the Palace Hotel in the foreground.
Date 6/1978
Catalogue Number ED 11454
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 466155
Scope and Content Palace Hotel, Nos 113-17 Princes Street, Edinburgh Princes Street was originally the south-facing terrace of James Craig's New Town. From the 1830s, Victorian reconstruction transformed the street into Edinburgh's principal thoroughfare of hotels, department stores, shops, offices and clubs. The huge five-storeyed Palace Hotel was designed by the hotel specialist, James Macintyre Henry, in 1888. It formed a picturesque building at the Castle Street corner until it was destroyed by fire in 1991. The Palace Hotel was constructed from the original plain-fronted Georgian houses on the site by adding bay-windows to the first three storeys, and then building up to five storeys in height, and adding an attic storey and pyramidal towers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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