Oswald House

Category

Library Item

Item no

2179

Title

Oswald House

Description

A woman stands beside two seated girls in the garden of a large house. A man stands in the doorway of a conservatory while another woman stands at the top of stone steps. Within the garden are lawns, plants, statues and greenhouses.

Artist / maker

Morham, George

Date

1885

Size

19.8 x 28 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image has been chosen for the Edinburgh - Past and Present Exhibition by Mike Pringle MSP - "What a wonderful old house built in 1876 in Oswald Road and called Oswald House. The superb glass conservatories must have been some of the finest in South Edinburgh. Sadly the house was demolished in 1970. What a tragedy! This happened all too often as Edinburgh expanded south in the 20th century. Falcon House suffered the same fate." Mike Pringle.

Oswald House was situated on Oswald Road, Edinburgh. It was designed by Robert Morham for his brother-in-law, James Buchanan, a partner in the famous chemists firm Duncan Flockhart & Co. The House was completed in 1876. It was demolished around 1970 and the site was developed as Oswald Court.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Landscape > Landscape architectural facilities > Gardens

Landscape > Landscape architectural facilities > Greenhouses

Places > Edinburgh areas > Grange

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

(55°55′44″N, 3°11′32″W)

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