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Ramsay Garden Brief History |
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Today Ramsay Garden is a prominent building, looking down on Princes Street from Castle Hill, immediately to the east of Edinburgh Castle, It is the light building near the bottom right (at Y12) in the aerial view below. Please click on the view to enlarge it. Aerial View |
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1740 Ramsay Garden has been built around the earlier building, Ramsay Lodge, a self-designed octagonal house built around 1740 for poet Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), father of the painter, Allan Ramsay (1713-1784). |
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1890s Ramsay Garden is a combination of Scos baronial and English cottage styles, with turrets, towers and balconies, half-timbered gable and carved doors. However, these features are as recent as the 1890s. Ramsay Garden These additions and alterations were conceived by the Edinburgh University professor Sir Patrick Geddes. They were built in 1892-93 to tempt lecturers and professors to move back, with Patrick Geddes, into the Old Town of Edinburgh. |
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