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View from south east of North British Mercantile Ins. Co. Ltd and also showing Nos 63 and 70 - 75 Princes Street.
SC 466089
Description View from south east of North British Mercantile Ins. Co. Ltd and also showing Nos 63 and 70 - 75 Princes Street.
Date 2/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 466089
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 1223
Scope and Content North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, Nos 64-9 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 monumental Italian Baroque North British and Mercantile Insurance Company building, one of the best early examples of the Victorian reconstruction phase, was designed in 1841 by David Bryce in imitation of a 16th-century Venetian palace. The Princes Street Panel, set up in 1954, proposed the redevelopment of Princes Street from end to end. The North British and Mercantile Insurance Company building was demolished in 1965 to make way for British Home Stores, designed to the Panel formula. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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