Building by James Salmon II : Information + Images

Hat Rack Architect : Scottish Buildings

The Hat Rack Glasgow
142a - 144 St Vincent St, 1899-1900/02; refurbishment 1990

building image © adrian welch

Radical for its time, old red sandstone facade with plenty of glass & wrought iron.

The practice are also well know for their Lion Chambers, Hope St.

Architects - Dates

James Salmon I (1825-88)
WF Salmon (1843-1911)
James Salmon II (1873-1924)
J G Gillespie (1870-1926)

Practice Background

Founded by James Salmon I. The firm passed to his son, William Forrest Salmon then to his grandson James Salmon II and their former assistant John Gaff Gillespie in 1898.

James Salmon II is probably the best known of the various architects involved in this practice over the years. After Rennie Mackintosh they are the city's best known 'Glasgow Style' architects and designers.

Their most famous building is surely The Hat Rack, St Vincent St. At Lion Chambers, they pioneered the use of reinforced concrete.
The successors to the practice were Gillespie Kidd & Coia, who went on to become Scotland's most respected architects of their generation.

J Salmon & Son - Glasgow Buildings

Corinthian Club, Former Union Bank of Scotland, 191 Ingram St, Merchant City
1841-3
J Salmon I & J Burnet

Former Institution for the Deaf and Dumb,
now Langside College, 56 Prospecthill Rd, Mount Florida
1866-8
Salmon, Son & Ritchie Architects

Former Scottish Temperance League Building, 106-8 Hope St
1893-4
Salmon, Son & Gillespie Architects

Former British Linen Company Bank, 215 High St, Townhead
1895
Salmon, Son & Gillespie Architects

Mercantile Chambers, 35-69 Bothwell St
1897-8

Former British Linen Company Bank, 816-18 Govan Rd, Govan
1897-1900
Salmon, Son & Gillespie

Former Anderston Savings Bank, 752-6 Argyle St, Anderston
1899-1902
J Salmon II with JG Gillespie

Former British Linen Company Bank, 162-70 Gorbals St, Gorbals
1900
J Salmon II

Lion Chambers, 170-2 Hope St
1905-7
Salmon, Son & Gillespie Architects

St Andrew's East Church: Church Hall, Alexandra Parade
1899

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