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Architecture Notes
Event ID 764200
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/764200
NT27SE 274 25687 73542
ARCHITECT: Robert Reid 1825
W H Playfair 1818-40 (Staircase, Library, Reading Room and Eastern Apartments)
William Stark 1813 (IGL)-Thomas Stothand painting of Apollo and the Muses, etc 1822
Robert Adam 1791 -design for library (not carried out)
William Burn 1834 -replaced staircase
REFERENCE: NMRS LIBRARY
Country life Aug 1st 1925 - photograph
NMRS REFERENCE:
Signet Library & Midlothian Country Buildings
PLANS:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh additions & alterations
Bin 17, Bag 1 7 South Charlotte St 1900
PLANS:
Dick Peddie & MacKay, Edinburgh additions & alterations
Bin 17, Bag 1 13 Young St 1901
