Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565654
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565654
LAURIESTON
Part of the Old Gorbals, purchased about 1800 from Hutchesons' Hospital by John Laurie, who tried to rival the West End suburbs by building such genteel terraces as Carlton Place on the river frontage and the magnificent Abbotsford Place.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
