[3] The site that Reid selected, in Millarbank Street, was open ground adjacent to the Cowlairs Somerville Church.

It was designed by William B. Whitie in the Italian Renaissance style, built in red ashlar stone and was officially opened on 16 May 1902.

The left-hand section of five bays was symmetrical and featured, in the central bay, two doorways with fanlights and keystones on the ground floor, and a tall round headed window, flanked by Corinthian order pilasters supporting a cornice, a frieze and a segmental open pediment, on the first floor.

The building was subsequently badly maintained and became dilapidated: it was demolished, because of public safety concerns, in December 2012.

[13] North Glasgow Homes and Chameleon subsequently redeveloped the site for residential use with a new block of 49 flats.