Glasgow, 100 Duke Street, Cotton Mill View from E showing NNE and ESE fronts

Description Glasgow, 100 Duke Street, Cotton Mill View from E showing NNE and ESE fronts

Date 4/9/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 602465

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cotton Thread Works, No 100 Duke Street, Glasgow This works was built in 1849 for R F & J Alexander, thread manufacturers, to designs by Charles Wilson, one of Glasgow's leading architects. As a result of mergers and takeovers in the thread industry the building became redundant, and was converted into a working men's hotel in 1909. This shows the works from the north-east, looking along Duke Street. The central entrance was added during the conversion into a working men's hotel. The top floor is also a later addition. The original building has a fireproof interior, with brick arches on cast iron columns. Charles Wilson, as well as being a fashionable designer of houses, churches and public buildings, appears to have also designed a number of industrial buildings. This was one of his largest. The building closed as working men's hotel in 2001. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H67/360/2B

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/602465

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap