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The Scottish Room was the next room that we found open as we toured the Nationality Rooms, and it was truly a pleasure to examine the woodwork and artifacts in person. Most of the history of this room, as well as some of the images, has been gathered from other sources. I hope you find it interesting.
The Scottish Room represents the history of the Scottish people, and it shows the names of Scottish people who have contributed to world knowledge. Inside the Scottish Room, at the rear of the room. Bell, Lord Kelvin, Watt, and Fleming are among the scientific people among the engraved names. Windows show the crests of Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and Glasgow.
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Of course, having been born and raised in Pittsburgh when steel was still the driving force in the economy, I feel compelled to mention Andrew Carnegie as one of Pittsburgh’s important Scottish immigrants. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1835. His family immigrated to the United States when he was a child and settled in Pittsburgh.
The Scottish Classroom was designed by Reginald Fairlie of Edinburgh in the period style of the early 17th century. The woodwork is carefully selected and treated English pollard oak. The names of distinguished Scots are carved in the ribbon bands of the panels and include David Livingstone who was an African missionary and explorer, Robert Louis Stevenson who authored Treasure Island, and Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin. The inscriptions above the doors and the rear cabinet are from “The Brus” by the 14th-century Scottish poet John Barbour. The room’s oak doors were copied from the entrance of Rowallan Castle in Ayrshire. A 16th-century Scottish proverb above the blackboard was taken from the Cowgate in Edinburgh and is known as “the Scottish Golden Rule” which reads: “Gif Ye did as Ye sould Ye might haif as Ye would.”
The plaster frieze was adapted from the plaster frieze at Elcho Castle in Perthshire and incorporates symbols of 14 Scottish clans which had members on the room committee, such as the buckle of the Leslie Clan. The thistle, Scotland’s national flower, is rendered on the cornerstone as a tree-of-life. The overmantel of the Scottish sandstone fireplace that is flanked by carved kists, or log storage chests, is dominated by a portrait of poet Robert Burns that is copied from an original by Alexander Nasmyth which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Above the portrait is the cross of St. Andrew, Scotland’s patron saint. The bronze statuettes on the mantel near an arrangement of dried heather are miniature replicas of heroic statues at the gateway to Edinburgh Castle and represent the 13th-century patriot Sir William Wallace and the 14th century freedom fighter, Robert the Bruce, both of whom were popularized in the movie Braveheart.
Medallions in the bay windows represent the coats of arms of the four ancient Scottish universities: Glasgow, St. Andrew’s, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh… The draperies are of crewel-embroidered linen. The rooms lighting fixtures were inspired by an iron coronet in Edinburgh’s John Knox Museum that was retrieved from the battlefield of Bannockburn at which Scotland won its independence from England in 1314.
Students’ seats resemble a chair that belonged to John Knox. An old Scottish church furnished the pattern for the reading stand. The rear cabinet, based on an aumbry or weapon closet, contain artifacts such as pewter and china used at Soutar’s Inn in Ayrshire that was frequented by Robert Burns. The panels in the doors, mantel, and in-the-wall cabinets were carved in Edinburgh by Thomas Good and then shipped to Pittsburgh.
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