Home Street, Tollcross
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Home Street, Tollcross
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 8 Jul 2009
Compare these plainer, Georgian-style tenements on the east side of the street with the later, more ornamented Victorian tenements on the opposite side. Believe it or not, this block was designed by one of Scotland's leading 19thC architects, James Gillespie Graham, on land feued by the Drumdryan estate. Drumdryan House stood on the site of the King's Theatre. Lord Leven, who purchased it in 1750, renamed it Leven Lodge, hence the name of Leven Street which it fronted. It later came into the possession of the Home-Rigg family, owners of Tarvit House in Fife, hence the name Home Street and the name of Tarvit Street between this block and the King's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gillespie_Graham Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.941553
Longitude
-3.203266