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This 1904 photograph pictures the official laying of the cornerstone in Dunoon
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William Fraser, ARIBA, dated about 1890 of his father, The Reverend William Fraser, who served as minister of the Free Church of Scotland in Lochgilphead, Scotland, from December 1861 to June 1892. Private
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In 1911, Fraser established an independent architecture practice specializing in the design of educational buildings. One of his largest commissions was for the
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architectural style and cottages that "were intended as a permanent living memorial to the poet symbolising his sympathy for the genuinely unfortunate." Today, the tower houses a
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