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Oban Times: 6 November 1954

Oban Times & West Highland Times, 1929 — present.
Originally published as The Illustrated Oban Magazine & Argyllshire Advertiser [c.1862-1865]; continued by Oban Times & Argyllshire Advertiser [c.1866-1929].

Newspaper clipping only: 'Ulva Mansion House Destroyed' [includes a description of the history of the C18th: Ulva House].

The first Ulva House was built c1790 by Colin Macdonald of Boisdale. It was a two-storey harled building and originally consisted of three bays, with central urn-decorated pediments on each facade. After 1800, his son Ranald had extended the house by adding hipped end-bays. Charles Macquarie owned and occupied the house from 1826 to 1835, and he and his wife, Mary Ann (nee Willison) died there in 1835 and 1828, respectively. The building was destroyed by fire in 1954 while being modernised. It was replaced in the late 1950's by a new house designed by Leslie Grahame MacDougall — on the same site, with approximately the same size and proportions.

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Sources:
Howard, J. and Jones, A. The Isle of Ulva: a visitor's guide. Ulva: Privately Printed, 1990 p.18; Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an Inventory of the Monuments. Volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll & Northern Argyll. Edinburgh: HMSO, 1980 p.38; Walker. Frank A. Argyll and Bute: the buildings of Scotland. London: Penguin, 2000 pp.589-590; National Library of Scotland newspaper collection.