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Trades Hall Glasgow, Architect, Location, Date, History, Tobacco Lords, Scotland
Trades' Hall, Glasgow : Information + Images
Historic Glasgow Building by Robert Adam for Robert Haldane
Trades Hall Glasgow - History
Built to the designs of Robert Adam between 1791 and 1794, the Trades'
Hall was built to house the federation of Glasgow's fourteen trades,
collectively known as the Trades' House. The Hall is located on Glassford
Street, in Glasgow City Centre.
The Trades' Hall is the only remaining Adam built property in Glasgow
and has undergone extensive interior renovation in the late 19th and
20th centuries. It is generally open on Doors Open Day.
Address: Trades Hall, 85-91 Glassford St, Glasgow
Location: west side of Merchant City
Trades
Hall Architect : Robert Adam
Robert Adam, Architect (1728-92)
born Kirkcaldy; buried in Westminster Abbey
Robert Adam was not only the leading Scottish architect of the 18th
century - and exponent of the Classical Georgian style - but remains
Scotland's most famous architect. He became architect to George III.
Scottish buildings by Robert Adam:-
Airthrey Castle, Stirlingshire
Archerfield House (interior), East Lothian
Ballochmyle House, Ayrshire
Culzean Castle, Ayrs.
Dumfries House
Fort George, Inverness.
Gifford, East Lothian - Yester House*
Gosford House, East Lothian
Hopetoun House, South Queensferry
Jerviston, Lanarkshire
Mavisbank,
Berwicks. with Sir John Clerk
Mellerstain, Berwicks. with William Adam
Newliston, West Lothian
No.8
Queen St, Edinburgh
Oxenford, Midlothian
Register
House, Princes St, Edinburgh
Sunnyside, Midlothian
Trades Hall, Glasgow
Robert Adam was born in 1728 in Kircaldy but his family moved that
year to Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh High School from 1734 and
joined Edinburgh University in 1743. Robert joined John as an architect
apprentice to his father William Adam in 1746. Robert Adams
father died in 1748 and was buried at Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh.
Robert then became Johns partner in the family business. The
Adam brothers' first major commission started in 1750 at Hopetoun
House, west of Edinburgh.
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Robert Adams' Trades Hall is right in the heart of Glasgow's Merchant
City
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