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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Hill House (Helensburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1902-1903 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMackintosh, Charles Rennieen_US
dc.date1902-1903en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-06T19:08:22Z
dc.date.available2013-03-06T19:08:22Z
dc.date.issued1902-1903en_US
dc.identifier198120en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1121en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/105868
dc.descriptionThe south gate on Upper Colquhoun Street, detail of wrought iron work; Much of Mackintosh's career as an architect might have remained unfulfilled had he not been encouraged and sustained by a few determined and discriminating patrons such as the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie (1860-1953). As a result of his friendship with Blackie's art director, Talwin Morris (1865-1911), Mackintosh was invited by Blackie in 1902 to design a family house, later known as the Hill House (now owned by National Trust Scotland). The chosen site, in upper Helensburgh, Strathclyde, is an exposed slope with a panoramic view of the Firth of Clyde. Although the plan of the Hill House generated the form of the building, the relationships and scale of the main units as seen from the south have an uncanny resemblance to Crathes Castle, Grampian, a late 16th-century L-plan tower-house to which was added a plain two-storey wing to provide more commodious accommodation. [Mackintosh also designed the gardens.] Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/2/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stucco; slateen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectGardensen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectGlasgow styleen_US
dc.titleHill Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MCR-HH-1-A16en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayCharles Rennie Mackintosh (British architect, 1868-1928)en_US


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