Beresford Hotel (original) (raw)

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The Beresford is a former hotel situated at 460 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for those attending the city's Empire Exhibition and was often described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, being the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the two world wars, at seven storeys high. It is one of the city's most notable examples of Art Deco/Streamline Moderne architecture, and is protected as a category B listed building. (en)

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460Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LN (Post code at time of use as Student Halls-Baird Hall, this was deleted/struck from the register by the UK Post Office after closure and change of use and purpose and is no longer visible online, there are now a number of individual residential post codes associated with the apartments within this building) (en)

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dbr:William_Beresford_Inglis

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1938

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10 (xsd:positiveInteger)

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Baird Hall of Residence (en)
The Beresford Hotel (en)
The ICI Building (en)

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30.200000 (xsd:double)

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Completed

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Main facade of The Beresford looking onto Sauchiehall Street (en)

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1938 (xsd:integer)

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2 (xsd:integer)

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10 (xsd:integer)

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Baird Hall of Residence (en)
The Beresford Hotel (en)
The ICI Building (en)

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The Beresford (en)

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Completed (en)

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The Beresford is a former hotel situated at 460 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for those attending the city's Empire Exhibition and was often described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, being the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the two world wars, at seven storeys high. It is one of the city's most notable examples of Art Deco/Streamline Moderne architecture, and is protected as a category B listed building. (en)

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