Mansion House, Rouken Glen
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Title:
Mansion House, Rouken Glen
Reference number:
3069
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UnrestrictedCopyright: M and L National Series
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The Crums often get credit for founding this mansion but it was built by another Glasgow merchant in the 1850s and not purchased by Walter Crum until about 1860 when he enlarged it. The Crums added paths and gardens and began to create the layout of the modern park as we know it. The mansion became known as Thornliebank House named after the Crum's old mansion house which had been situated inside the Thornliebank works. Back in 1820 their old house was described as the mansion house, offices and garden of Thornliebank. Shortly after 1900 one of the Crum heirs sold the estate to Archiebald Cameron Corbett MP (later Lord Rowallan)In 1906 he gifted the estate and mansion house to the citizens of Glasgow and it was officially opened on 25th May 1906 as a public park. Once the park was established, the house became known as Rouken Glen House or the Mansion House. Like many country houses, following military use during WWII it fell into disrepair and was demolished in the early 1960s.
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English
Record number:
9265437