Robert Rowand Anderson

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The Central Hotel at Glasgow Central station

Robert Rowand Anderson (1834 – 1921) was an important Scottish Victorian architect. Anderson trained in the office of George Gilbert Scott in London. He left Scott's office in 1859 and set up his own practice in Edinburgh in 1860. During the 1860s his main work was small churches in the 'first pointed' style that is characteristic of Scott's former assistants. By 1880 his practice was designing the most prestigious public and private buildings in Scotland.

His works include The Scottish National Portrait Gallery; Dome of Old College, Medical Faculty and McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University; Central Hotel at Glasgow Central station, the Catholic Apostolic Church in Edinburgh and Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute for the 3rd Marquess of Bute.

Anderson was also the founder of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and donated his own Edinburgh Georgian townhouse to be used as its headquarters.