Architecture Notes

Event ID 764200

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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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