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Architecture Notes
Event ID 700319
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/700319
NS25NW 39 20139 59425
For replacement housing and retail development of the same name see NS25NW 242.
LARGS, THE MOORINGS DRAWINGS COLLECTION
A large collection of designs for 'The Moorings', Largs by James Houston and others 1935-1973 including: designs for development of site by A Procuranti, Pistoia c. 1929; designs by James Houston 1935 and many designs for alterations, interior decorations etc.
Presented by J. B. J. Houston 1989
NMRS REFERENCE:
Note: area of premises to SOUTH (site ID 239717) is parallel to Main Street, with short face to Fort Street, at back of Moorings. It is referred to later in 1963 plans as the 'Lugano' bar and in original proposals of 1935 forms part of the 'property bellonging to the trustees of the late John Watson....' (see DC 12515).
HES NOTE: This building was later fitted out by Houston & Dunlop as the 'Lugano' restaurant and bar (c.1955 according to OldLargs.com Local History site) and then integrated into The Moorings complex in the 1960s.
