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Usher Hall, sketch
Stockdale Harrison & Sons, 1912, Pen work
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Usher Hall, sketch
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Item no
35544
Title
Usher Hall, sketch showing position of carved [?] groups
Artist / maker
Stockdale Harrison & Sons
Date
1912
Type
Pen work
Location
City Art Centre
In 1896 Andrew Usher gifted £100,000 to the City of Edinburgh to provide a City Hall to be used for concerts and recitals. In 1910 architects were invited to design a hall to the cost of £65,000. 133 designs were considered and all were exhibited in the hall of the New Corn Market in Gorgie. The designs were voted on anonymously on 22nd July 1910. A joint entry from Stockdale Harrison & Sons and Howard H. Thomson of Leicester was successful.
One hundred years later, a firm of architects in Leicester contacted the Usher Hall to say that they could trace their origins to Stockdale Harrison & Sons and had in their archive a folder of original drawings relating to the building.
The archive was purchased by Edinburgh Museums and Galleries in 2014. It contains over 200 items including early sketches of the venue, watercolour impressions and detailed competition drawings. There are also exquisitely coloured drawings of lighting and sculptural designs, blueprints for heating layouts, ironmongery and terrazzo floors.
This drawing comes from the Stockdale Harrison & Sons collection.
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