Hat Rack Architect: Scottish Buildings
| James Salmon II: Scotland |
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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