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M320 Tenement, Rutherglen Road and Thistle Street

Address: 102–128, Rutherglen Road, Glasgow
Date: 1912–14
Client: Glasgow Corporation
Authorship:

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1912: 10 April: At a meeting of Glasgow Corporation's Statute Labour Committee (subcommittee for the widening of Rutherglen Road), John Keppie presents alternative sketch plans for tenements at the S.E. corner of Rutherglen Road and Thistle Street, and at the S.E. corner of Rutherglen Road and Hospital Street. The subcommittee selects two plans and asks Keppie to prepare working drawings and estimates. They specify that each dwelling should have an inside W.C., that the ceilings of the ground-floor shops should be fireproof, and that Robert Scott & Son should be appointed measurers. 1
24 October: Plans approved by Glasgow Dean of Guild Court. 2
November: Work starts on clearing old buildings from site. 3

1913: January: Foundations being laid. 4
September: Roof being slated. 5

1914: 30 July: Building discharged by Glasgow Dean of Guild Court inspector. 6
18 November: Final payments to major contractors. 7

1981: Tenement demolished. 8

Notes:

1: Printed minutes of the Corporation of Glasgow, April 1912–November 1912, p. 1353.

2: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/61, pp. 37–8.

3: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/61, pp. 37–8.

4: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/61, pp. 37–8.

5: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/61, pp. 37–8.

6: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/61, pp. 37–8.

7: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh job book, GLAHA 53063, pp. 85–90.

8: David Stark, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co., Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing, 2004, p. 211.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.