A stunning building🏛️
In 19th-century Glasgow, paper mill magnate James Couper wanted a house that would be a totally unique fixture in the land and upstage the property of his neighbour.
He commissioned a famous architect to build him an elaborate villa that would outdo his brother Robert’s rather ordinary-looking Gothic home, Sunnyside. Holmwood House was built in 1857 for the Millholm Paper Mill businessman at a cost of £3,600, near the banks of White Cart Water where the brothers lived and worked.The villa was designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, who was a founding member of both the Glasgow Architectural Society and the Glasgow Institute of Architects.
Inspired by the shapes and designs of the architecture of Egypt, Assyria, India – and of course, Greece – Thomson’s creations hugely influenced Glasgow architecture in the 19th century.After his death, the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship was established and produced a relatively well-known student by the name of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Despite Thomson’s influence and legacy, many of his buildings were destroyed in the 1950s and 60s, along with Robert’s home Sunnyside.James Couper’s wife lived in the house after his death until 1908, and over the years it was owned by numerous families until it was purchased by Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission in 1958.
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