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Architecture Notes
Event ID 837353
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/837353
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Record Office
Dovecot:
Lessmoir. 'I have sent you a Plan of my Pigeon House which is somewhat off the common and very convenient for numbers. The cupola is painted white and there is a small pediment and Cornice above the Venetian window which is omitted in the Plan, also a small Pedestal betwixt the Cupola and Globe the expense of mine, which contains about eight hundred pigeon holes was about 25 pounds.'
Letter Al Gordon to James Watson of Saughton.
24 April 1758 GD150/3530/16
