Architects

Name:

Alexander McCulloch

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Architect

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04/05/1926

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1844

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04/05/1926

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Alexander McCulloch was born in West Fife and commenced his career with practical training in the building trade with a 'leading establishment' in Edinburgh. He studied at Heriot-Watt and in 1864 became assistant to Charles Macpherson, Edinburgh's burgh engineer. In 1868 he commenced the University of Edinburgh's engineering course, winning its first prize and medal in 1870, and was employed by Professor Fleming Jenkin to make illustrations and lecture diagrams. In 1872 he was appointed first assistant to William Mackison, Dundee's Burgh Engineer, in succession to Watson who became water engineer. In 1875 he resigned to set up practice in Dundee as a civil engineer and in mid-1876 he formed the Dundee and Edinburgh civil engineering and architectural partnership of McCulloch & Fairley with James Graham Fairley whom he had known in Macpherson's office.

The partnership of McCulloch & Fairley had a formal existence of only about three years, but remained effective for at least another eight years, McCulloch continuing to obtain Fairley's assistance for any major architectural commission that came his way, most notably at the French Renaissance Girls' High School (1886) in Dundee, one of the finest Scottish buildings of the 1880s.

McCulloch was admitted AMICE in 1885. He took an active part in Dundee public life, becoming a volunteer officer in 1878, a councillor in 1883, and Convener of the Works Committee of the Water Commission in 1884, having a major hand in the design and construction of the aqueduct from Lintrathen to Clatto. He subsequently had a similar advisory role in the design of the Esplanade, succeeding in changing its design from serpentine to straight. He became a Baillie in 1886, but subsequently resigned to apply for the post of City Water Engineer and was surprised to find himself an unsuccessful candidate.

In 1885 McCulloch engaged as assistant George Jamieson, probably because the time Fairley could give to McCulloch's practice was becoming limited. In 1894 Jamieson was made a partner; McCulloch then moved to Edinburgh where he appears to have been briefly in partnership with his son Robert McCulloch at 3 Bernard Street, Leith, whilst Jamieson carried out all of the firm's Dundee business himself.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
2 Park Road Trinity Edinburgh Scotland	Private/business					May have retired by 1910 and this may be home only

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To	Notes
Dundee Scotland	Business	1875	1894
Edinburgh Scotland	Business	1876
3 Bernard Street Leith Edinburgh Scotland	Business	c. 1894
2 Park Road Trinity Edinburgh Scotland	Private/business	c. 1910	c. 1912	May have retired by 1910 and this may be home only

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The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Charles Macpherson (or McPherson)	201019	In year 1864		Assistant
William Mackison	200007	In year 1872	In year 1876	Chief Assistant	In Dundee Burgh Engineer's Office
Dundee Burgh Engineer's Office/Dundee City Engineer's Office	204135	In year 1872	In year 1876	Chief Assistant	Working under William Mackison, Burgh Engineer
McCulloch & Fairley	201018	In year 1876	c. 1880	Partner
McCulloch & Jamieson	201040	In year 1894	c. 1900	Partner
A & R McCulloch	201041	c. 1898	After 1905	Partner

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
George Jamieson	201021	In year 1885	In year 1894	Chief Assistant	Became a partner 1894
William Clark	200742	In year 1886	In year 1891	Apprentice
George Brown Deas	203469	In year 1891	In year 1894	Apprentice

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	City or County	Country	Notes
Victoria Hall	In year 1875	Dundee	Scotland
Trinity EU Church	In year 1876	Dundee	Scotland
Rattray Street Baptist Church	In year 1876	Dundee	Scotland
Improvement Act Tenements, Victoria Road	In year 1877	Dundee	Scotland	Executed Aitken's design
Tenement, Victoria Road	In year 1877	Dundee	Scotland
Tenement, Victoria Road and Infirmary Lane	In year 1877	Dundee	Scotland
Tenement of mansion flats, Singleton Place, Baxter Park Terrace	In year 1885	Dundee	Scotland
Tay Square UP Church	In year 1885	Dundee	Scotland	Renovation
High School for Girls	In year 1886	Dundee	Scotland	Designed by Fairley though no longer in partnership officially
Dundee High School, gymnasium block	In year 1886	Dundee	Scotland
The Esplanade, ornamental lake	In year 1888	Dundee	Scotland	Proposed - design illustrated
St Paul's Cathedral Schools	In year 1889	Dundee	Scotland	Adapted and executed design by Reverend Edward Sugden
Ward Road public gymnasium	In year 1890	Dundee	Scotland	Designed by Fairley; executed by McCulloch
Factory block, Albert Street	In year 1890	Dundee	Scotland
South west corner building, Thorter Row	In year 1891	Dundee	Scotland

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
The Piper of Dundee		*	*	Biography, check date

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The following archives hold material relating to this person:

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material	Professor David M Walker personal archive	100041			Personal information from Harry Band

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