Interior View of ground floor Secretary's room from W Digital image of SU/782
SC 772660
Description Interior View of ground floor Secretary's room from W Digital image of SU/782
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 772660
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of SU 782
Scope and Content Secretary's room, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows the secretary's room which is lined with filing cupboards with bookcases and cupboards. The doorways are surmounted with broken pediments and the chimneypiece on the left has a tiled hearth and a mirrored overmantel. Above the chimneypiece there is a picture of Andrew Carnegie dressed in academic gowns holding a degree certificate and box. The secretary was responsible for Mr Carnegie's personal affairs and for the smooth running of the large estate which included castle policies of 34-hectares, a 277-hectare home farm and several other farms. The estate was reduced in size when it was sold in 1990. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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