View from East of 1-5 Ainslie Place
ED 2405
Description View from East of 1-5 Ainslie Place
Date c. 1890
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number ED 2405
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 520301
Scope and Content Ainslie Place, Edinburgh Ainslie Place, built as two elegant crescents facing each other across an oval wooded garden, is part of James Gillespie Graham's self-contained and imaginative housing development on the Earl of Moray's estate. Begun in 1822, it was completed by 1826. Each crescent is symmetrical, with an extra attic storey and arched ground-floor openings in the end pavilions. The first-floor drawing-room windows have elegant balconets bearing the Classical anthemion and palmette motifs. Dean Edward Ramsay (1793-1872), minister of St John's Episcopal Church at the west end of Princes Street for 44 years, lived at No 23. A respected philanthropist, his humorous book 'Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character' was enormously popular. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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