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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565292
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565292
Bridgeton Public Library, 23 Landressy Street, 1903, J R Rhind
Edwardian Baroque in white ashlar, Ionic pilasters, figure sculpture, first-floor Venetian window. Two pedimented end pavilions with Ionic columns over entrances. Good original interior. One of 14 libraries endowed by Andrew Carnegie in Glasgow. A post office now occupies the original reading room.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
