Alexander's School, at 94 Duke Street, Glasgow, was designed by John Burnet and built in 1858 at a cost of £6000[1] for James Alexander, the proprietor of the cotton mill next door - itself an innovative 1849 fire-proof construction - to educate local children.

It is built in an impressive Italianate style, with the heads of Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Milton carved high on the front wall by John Crawford.

[2] The site is close to where the University of Glasgow stood in the 19th century, and was opposite Duke Street Women's Prison.

This was removed in 1977 to Crownpoint Road and the building housed a special needs school.

[3] In 1996 it was taken over by the East End Partnership, a local agency dedicated to urban regeneration.