Blythswood House

Renfrew

Glasgow

Scotland

Historic County: Renfrewshire

Circa Date: 1821

Status: Destroyed

Demolished 1935

House Open to Public: No

Country House: Yes

Built / Designed For: Major Acrhibald Campbell

House & Family History: Blythswood contained a well-known physics laboratory that was used from 1892 until 1905 to experiment with cathode rays, x-rays, spectroscopy, and radioactivity.
Architect: James Gillespie Graham

Date of Birth: 1777
Date of Death: 1855
Nationality: British
Notes: Graham was a Gothic Revival architect with a large practice in Scotland. He specialized in Gothic churches and castellated country houses and was the leading practitioner of the Picturesque castle style house in the second and third decades of the 19th century.

Date: Circa 1821
Designed: House

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John Preston (J.P.) Neale, published under the title of Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. III, 1826. Scotland, 1830.
House Listed: Demolished

Park Listed: Destroyed
Past Seat / Home of: Major Archibald Campbell, 19th century. Archibald Douglas, 19th century. Barrington Sholto Douglas Campbell/Campbell, 5th Baron Blythswood, 20th century.

Current Ownership Type: Demolished

Primary Current Ownership Use: Demolished
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No

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