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            Albany Street forms part of the Edinburgh New Town A Group. 

The building of Albany Street started in 1801. It did not form part of Reid and Sibbald's first extension of the New Town, but was incorporate into it, Abercromby Place and Heriot Row being laid out on the same axis. Considerable difficulty was encountered in clearing feuars from the north-western area, for which Bonnar did not prepare a feu plan until February 1815.

No 34 was James Gillespie Graham's house, and has interior gothic plasterwork of some opulence.

James Gillespie Graham lived at No 34 from 1817 – 1833 - he was one of Edinburgh’s leading architects. 
He designed and built Number 34 for himself and his wife. He was born about 1777, at Dunblane in Perthshire, to a solicitor called Gillespie. However, when his wife Margaret, the heiress of William Graham of Orchill, Perthshire, and he succeeded to the estate on her father’s death they assumed the name of Graham. James began his career as a joiner, but soon began working as an architect. By the time he moved to Albany Street he was already well-established, having designed a range of buildings including St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow and St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh. In 1816, he had been elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. While living in Albany Street he designed a wide range of projects including Edinburgh’s Highland Tolbooth Church (now The Hub), the Gothic remodelling of Duns Castle and the splendid rotunda stable block at Prestonfield House. He also designed new areas of the New Town; the most renowned being Moray Place, here seen as originally envisaged by Graham. Commissioned in 1822 by the Earl of Moray as an expansion of the New Town on land the Earl owned, the plots were sold with the condition that each town house followed strict regulations of style and finish. Each façade was specified with drawings provided by Graham, including classical details and a central private garden with ‘retaining walls and iron railings in a suitable and handsome manner’. The Grahams moved to Duke (Dublin) Street.
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Taken on: February 28, 2024

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