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McCaig's Folly, Oban, Argyll

RIBA Ref No RIBA33822
Artist/PhotographerSmith, Edwin (1912-1971)
CountryUK: Scotland
CityOban
Subject Date1897
Image Date1963
ViewExterior
MediumPhotoprint
Library ReferenceESP/SCO/370 (ES1006)
OrientationPortrait
Colour InfoBlack and white
CreditEdwin Smith / RIBA Collections
SubjectMonuments ; Arches ; Follies ; Stone
NOTES: This replica of the Colosseum in Rome was undertaken in 1897 by a local banker, John Stuart McCaig, but was never completed. It was erected at a cost of +é-ú5,000 as both a job creation scheme at a time of high unemployment in the area and as a lasting monument to the McCaig family.
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