Plan of Edinburgh Showing Proposed Sites for Usher Hall

Category

Library Item

Item no

30265

Title

Plan of Old Town of Edinburgh showing proposed sites for City Hall (Usher Hall) building

Description

Map shows three sites in red identified as possible sites for the proposed Usher Hall building.

Artist / maker

Bartholomew, John

Date

1898

Size

19.5 x 31.5 cm

Type

Document; Map

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This map has highlighted sites at Port Hopetoun on Lothian Road, the site beside the Museum of Science and Art on Chambers Street, and a site close to the Usher Hall's actual site, but on the other side of the Lyceum Theatre on Spittal Street. This map is contained within a bound document dated 4th July 1898, which also contains a document and map relating to another proposed site at the west corner of the Meadows.

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Plan of Edinburgh showing proposed sites for Usher Hall