Bellevue, Edinburgh

It was situated south of East Claremont Street, in the gardens of Broughton Hall,[4] then owned by James Donaldson [5] and opened as a zoological park nine years after his death in 1830.

In 1857 the house was demolished and the gardens redeveloped as new tenement buildings, the residents of which continued to pay feuduty to the Donaldson Trust[7] until its abolition in Scotland on 28 November 2004.

Bellevue Crescent is a classical 34-bay sweeping curved terrace, part of the first extension of the New Town planned by Robert Reid and William Sibbald in 1802, designed by architect Thomas Bonnar in 1818.

[14] The murals inside the former Catholic Apostolic Church, designed by Robert Rowand Anderson [15] - regarded as his most ambitious ecclesial project - and built in 1893 are Phoebe Anna Traquair's best-known work and led to the building to become often referred to as "Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel"[16] and confirmed her international recognition.

[17] Designed by John Cooper and built in 1899, this former Coal Fired Power station highly unusually had an Italian Renaissance basilica style sandstone frontage.

Claremont Court is a rare example of a Modernist style municipal flatted housing scheme (surrounding a landscape courtyard) situated this close to the New Town UNESCO zone.