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Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Argyll and Bute, Scotland

 Subject

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Mount Stuart, Bute, 1853-1908

 Item — Box Box 6 of 9: Series Coll-1167/B
Identifier: Coll-1167/C/2/12/3
Scope and Contents

Photographic print showing west facing side of Mount Stuart, a house commissioned by the 3rd Marquess of Bute and designed by Rowand Anderson. It was the first house in Scotland to be lit by electricity, the swimming pool was the first ever heated pool to be contained within a house and a plumbing systems was serviced by a new waterworks built 2 miles away. Opened to the public from June 1995.

Dates: 1853-1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Scenes of Scotland / Scenes of Scotland: photographic prints / South-west Scotland