Anderson College Dumbarton Road, architect was James Sellars 1889 although the building was completed by John Keppie after Sellars died.
The blonde stone building is in a Italianate style with some very ornate windows and sculptures by James Macgillivray.
The original medical college was founded in 1800 and was named after John "phosphorous Jack" Anderson a professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow University from 1757 to 96 apparently he was a soldier who fought in the Jacobite Uprising.
The college was incorporated into the university in 1947 and was extensively refurbished in the 1990s.
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