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Architecture Notes
Event ID 800269
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/800269
NMRS REFERENCE
Glasgow, 20 Queen Margaret Drive.
BBC Broadcasting House was initially built as North Park House, which was altered and later became Queen Margaret College. The Medical Building was added in 1895. After partial demolition and rebuilding it then became the BBC Broadcasting House.
ARCHITECT: begun by J. T. Rochead 1869, completed by John Honeyman - part which was North Park House.
House later became Queen Margaret College - John Keppie & Charles Rennie Mackintosh added Medical Building 1895.
Additions - James Millar 1936-38
(Undated) information in NMRS.
