Edit The oldest house in the Merchant City
THE oldest house in Glasgow's Merchant City is the Tobacco Merchant's House at 42 Miller Street.
All the other big merchants' houses in that part of Glasgow were pulled down during the 19th century.
Miller Street was laid out in 1762 on land owned by a maltman James Miller of Westerton.
In 1761 he decided to demolish half of his own mansion, which had been built only in 1754, and use his surrounding land to build a new street to accommodate the villas of wealthy merchants. Miller Street opened in 1773 and No 42, which was designed, built and occupied by John Craig, was completed on the eastern side of the street in 1775.
Although Craig was not a tobacco merchant, the house has taken the name because it is the only house left to retain the style of tobacco lords' villas.
Only one other house in Glasgow retains a similar architectural design - at 52 Charlotte Street to the east of the Merchant City on the other side of the Saltmarket.
They are the last of their kind that hark back to the elegance and grandeur of the Glasgow merchants' villas, epitomised by Campbell's Shawfield Mansion of 1712.
This property stood at the top of Stockwell Street until its demolition in 1792.
All the other big merchants' houses in that part of Glasgow were pulled down during the 19th century.
Miller Street was laid out in 1762 on land owned by a maltman James Miller of Westerton.
In 1761 he decided to demolish half of his own mansion, which had been built only in 1754, and use his surrounding land to build a new street to accommodate the villas of wealthy merchants. Miller Street opened in 1773 and No 42, which was designed, built and occupied by John Craig, was completed on the eastern side of the street in 1775.
Although Craig was not a tobacco merchant, the house has taken the name because it is the only house left to retain the style of tobacco lords' villas.
Only one other house in Glasgow retains a similar architectural design - at 52 Charlotte Street to the east of the Merchant City on the other side of the Saltmarket.
They are the last of their kind that hark back to the elegance and grandeur of the Glasgow merchants' villas, epitomised by Campbell's Shawfield Mansion of 1712.
This property stood at the top of Stockwell Street until its demolition in 1792.
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