50-52 Argyle Street, Glasgow

J A Campbell, 1905. 8-storey office building of American

derivation, on corner site. Red sandstone ashlar street

elevations, brick side and rear; polished granite at

ground, with unusually carved capitals. Combination of

Mannerist and Glasgow Style details.

ARGYLE STREET: channelled quoins at ground and 1st floor,

and mullions at 1st floor; cartouches between 1st floor

bays at bases of giant pilaster strips with consoled

plinths, narrow giant pilaster strips divide central 3

windows. Canted outer oriels at 2nd to 5th floor,

corbelled at base, segmental aedicules to central 5th floor

lights and bridges by 6th floor balcony parapet. 6th and

7th floors with plain tripartite windows: centre bay raised

in blocking course.

MILLER STREET: doorway in bay right of centre, with

keystone and consoled balcony above. Outer right bay at

ground altered to doorway with swagged, strapworked

cartouche above. 4 bipartite bays 1st to 7th floors,

stepped for stair well in right bays; dividing cornice at

6th floor cill; mannered aedicule between 5th and 6th

floors of stair bay, with single windows above.

Wide, projecting brick bay at N (rear).