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Architecture Notes
Event ID 688620
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/688620
NT27SE 500 25570 74253
For associated offices see NT27SE 499.
ARCHITECT: Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1885-1890.
Taken from NMRS Architectural Catalogue Slip; Museum of Antiquities
National Art Survey Drawings - Nos 828, 832, 847, 849, 850, 854, 855, 857, 867 - 878. The drawings with these numbers in the Print Room do not, however, relate to the Museum of Antiquities.
Construction financed by J.R. Findlay, owner of the Scotsman Newspaper.
Red sandstone from Corsehill Quarry, Dumfries. Stonework restored by Hurd Rolland Partnership, 1987-90.
Prospect 1990
