View of the East side of George Square, Edinburgh, including the buildings later demolished to make way for the William Robertson Building, seen from the South West.

Description View of the East side of George Square, Edinburgh, including the buildings later demolished to make way for the William Robertson Building, seen from the South West.

Date 1966

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 457651

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of ED 14694

Scope and Content Stamped and annotated on the reverse of the mounted print: 'Scottish National Buildings Record. Place: Edinburgh. Building: Buccleuch Place. Photographer: Mrs Udall. Date: 1966'. George Square, Edinburgh in the 1960s East side The first new residential project in the city outside the confines of the 16th-century Flodden Wall, was designed by James Brown, a far-seeing Edinburgh architect, who built George Square on the southern limits of the old burgh in 1766. The east side of the square was built between 1774-9. This Georgian terrace, of three-storeyed houses with basements, has Doric and fluted Ionic columned doorpieces. Most of George Square's impressive Georgian housing was demolished in the 1960 's to make way for new buildings for the University of Edinburgh. Now on the east side is the university's 14-storey David Hume Tower (1963), and the Appleton Tower (1966). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference NBR 272/C/1/7

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