opposite the east wing of the Museum of Science
and Art. It was erected in 1876-7, and presents
a central block with two side pavilions; and has.
also a deeply recessed principal entrance, with
four massive columns on each side, and a bold
surmounting pediment, projected on massive corbels
or trusses.
OLD MINT0 HOUSE, 1873- (From a Drawing in tlrrpossessimr @or. Rob& Paie~sun.) .
The architecture, by Mr. David Rhind, of this new
College, which is opposite the Industrial Museum,
is simple in character, the more conspicuous features
of the elevations being large bay windows and
effective Mansard pavilion roofs.
On the second floor is the lecture hall, which
measures forty-eight feet by forty, and has a ceiling
Church of Scotland, destined to supplement, and
eventually to supersede, the edifice in Johnstone
Terrace, the arrangements and accommodation of
which have proved somewhat defective.
The principal object aimed at in the new premises
is to provide a separate college entirely
devoted to the training of male students, while the
present school will thus be enlarged, and the seventh
and eighth standards instituted in addition to those
recognised in the Code, enabling the committee to
form an upper elementary, or lower secondary
school, for the instruction of advanced English,
elementary Latin, French, and Mathematics.
be considered one of the chief features in the building.
-4 noteworthy circumstance in connection
with the site of this new Training College is that
the staircase is said to stand exactly over the spot
where stood the room in which Sir Walter Scott
was born.
In this street is the new Dental Hospital and
School, inaugurated in October, 1879, and which
bids fair to become the headquarters of dentistry
in Scotland
At the east end of Chambers Street is the Theatre
of Varieties, seated for 1,200 persons, and opened
in 1875.
But this seems doubtful.
