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113 - 117 Princes Street, View from south east after blaze with firemen at the scene.
SC 466159
Description 113 - 117 Princes Street, View from south east after blaze with firemen at the scene.
Catalogue Number SC 466159
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 55030 CN
Scope and Content Scene of the fire at the 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. This shows the scene of devastation after fire swept through the huge Palace Hotel on the corner of Castle Street. The building on the right, Debenhams department store, was unaffected. The Palace Hotel was later demolished. The Palace Hotel was one of the great Victorian hotel and department store buildings that transformed Princes Street in the late 19th century into what the Edinburgh writer Robert Louis Stevenson called 'a terrace of palaces'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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