Architects

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George Gordon Maclaren

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Architect

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21/06/1855

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1899/06/31

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25/07/1925

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George Gordon Maclaren was born on 21 June 1855, the eldest son of James Maclaren, architect, Dundee and Jemima Margaret Miller. He was articled to his father and joined him in partnership c. 1879 after the dissolution of the Maclaren & Aitken partnership, partially as a result of disagreements and litigation over the specification of stone from Ferrybank estate near Cupar.

The Ferrybank stone affair adversely affected the practice and George had neither London nor Edinburgh experience. In the early 1880s the patronage of Maclaren's most important client, the Cox family, was lost to the much more up-to-date John Murray Robertson whose inspiration was partly American, and although the firm still had a very substantial domestic practice from the Panmure estate feus, it had lost the commanding position it had previously enjoyed by the time of James Maclaren's death at Ferrybank on 16 June 1893. The elder Maclaren appears to have recognised that the practice was becoming out-of-date as a younger son, John Turnbull Maclaren, born 1863, was sent to an unspecified office in the United States to gain experience, returning on his father's death as a partner.

George Gordon Maclaren, who had set up house in Invermark Terrace, Barnhill, retained his father's management of the Panmure feus for the Dalhousie Trustees and concentrated his interests in Broughty Ferry where he had become a parish councillor and a burgh commissioner, successfully promoting a scheme for a municipal gasworks, though not the scheme for municipal swimming baths and private baths of which he was the principal advocate. Stylistically his work was a pale version of his father's. In 1896 he suffered a heart attack and from the summer of 1898 he was confined to his house. He died on 31 June 1899, survived by a widow Isabella Stenhouse and a young family. He left a moveable estate of £1,633 15s 10d, the family firm being continued by his brother.

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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
3 Invermark Terrace Barnhill Dundee Scotland	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
Dundee Scotland	Business

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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
James Maclaren & Sons	202371	In year 1893	In year 1899	Partner
James Maclaren & Son	202370	c. 1879	In year 1893	Partner
James Maclaren	100012			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	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
Chance Inn	1880-1881	Inverkeilor	Angus	Scotland
Thistle Hall	c. 1880		Dundee	Scotland	Reconstruction
Abbey Church Manse	In year 1881	Arbroath	Angus	Scotland
Ardestie Farmhouse and Steading	In year 1881	Panmure Estate		Scotland
Residence. Lochee	In year 1881	Lochee	Dundee	Scotland
Northern Assurance Company Offices	In year 1881		Dundee	Scotland
Shops and dwelling-houses, Overgate	In year 1881		Dundee	Scotland
Villa for T Davidson	In year 1882	Cupar	Fife	Scotland
Corn Exchange	In year 1883	Cupar	Fife	Scotland	Improvements
Cupar Spinning Mills, workmen's houses	In year 1883	Cupar	Fife	Scotland
Warehouses on Charles Street for David Stewart	In year 1883		Dundee	Scotland
Colluthie House	In year 1883	Moonzie	Fife	Scotland	Addition of new front
Clepington Works Buildings	After 1883		Dundee	Scotland	Date unknown: partnership uncertain
Abbey Church	In year 1885	Arbroath	Angus	Scotland	New front and tower. Also probably hall.
Half-time School, Camperdown Works	In year 1885	Lochee	Dundee	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
www.familysearch.org	www.familysearch.org		Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints: Website
Scotlands People Website	Wills & Testaments				Dundee Sheriff Court SC45/31/51

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
Dundee Advertiser		1899/07	*	Obituary (cutting in NMRS)

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The following archives hold material relating to this person:

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Notes
Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material	Professor David M Walker personal archive	100041	Personal information from William Salmond, William Patrick, James McIntosh Patrick, Ann Patrick, Stuart O Barron, Peter Young and Ian Gordon Lindsay
NMRS Manuscripts	National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS	100055	MS/181: Lectures on Restenneth Priory and Scotland's Cathedrals and Abbeys; family tree
NMRS Photographic Archive	National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS	200159	B68889 Photograph of George Gordon Maclaren (original portrait(?) Acc No 1999/79)

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