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M035 Alterations to 17 West Regent Street

Address: West Regent Street, Glasgow
Date: 1890; 1913
Client: Hugh Hopkins; Hugh C. Hopkins
Authorship:

(Office)

Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh made alterations to the shop fittings at this city-centre bookshop in 1890 for John Keppie's uncle, Hugh Hopkins, and in 1913 for Hugh Cuthbertson Hopkins, who continued the family business following the death of his father in 1911. 1

Authorship: This is one of over 270 jobs carried out in the office of John Honeyman & Keppie (Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh from 1901) during Mackintosh's time there. Mackintosh undoubtedly worked on many of these, but there is no specific evidence for his involvement in this case.

Cost from office job book: Phase 1: £42 16s 0d; Phase 2: £43 10s 0d

Status: Demolished

Grid Reference: NS 5892 6559

GPS coordinates: lat = 55.862782, lng = -4.255805 (Map)

Notes:

1: Family connection established by birth and census information, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk [accessed 8 November 2012].

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.