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However, Oban did not have a town house, [3] until the police commissioners decided to procure one to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The site they selected was on the northwest side of Albany Street. [4] The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the provost, Francis Cooper, on 22 June 1897. [5]
The site they selected was on the southeast side of Albany Street. [4] The building was designed by David MacKintosh in the Italianate style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1889. [5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Albany Street.
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Corran Esplanade And 1 Stafford Street, Oban Inn 56°24′54″N 5°28′25″W / 56.415023°N 5.473514°W / 56.415023; -5.473514 ( Corran Esplanade And 1 Stafford Street, Category B
McCaig's Tower [1] or McCaig's Folly [2] is a prominent tower on Battery Hill [3] overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres (660 ft) with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on ...
Oban (/ ˈ oʊ b ə n / ⓘ OH-bən; [3] Scottish Gaelic: An t-Òban [ən̪ˠ ˈt̪ɔːpan] meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William.
Glasgow Queen Street to Oban/Mallaig 75 120 Leyland Bus 1987-1988 as Class 155s [23] Converted to Class 153 by Hunslet-Barclay 1991-1992 [24] 2021– N/A
Another well-known grid plan is the plan for New York City formulated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, a proposal by the state legislature of New York for the development of most of Manhattan [16] above Houston Street. The L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C., set out a north–south, east–west grid pattern with diagonal streets radiating ...