I cannot begin to guess how many folk have personal memories associated with the Northern Hotel, Kittybrewster, Aberdeen. My memories are of wonderful ceilidhs held there when I was a medical student in Aberdeen. This was in the 1980s when the Northern Hotel appeared like this:
The original Northern Hotel burned down in a dramatic fire in 1938:
Architect, AGR Mackenzie designed the new Northern Hotel in December 1938. Mackenzie was a renowned and respected architect in the city, who started studying at Gray’s School of Art aged 10 in 1889. He was very keen to adopt the continental style, and the result was the very epitome of the Art Deco movement.
The Northern Hotel has undergone several renovations but it has the honour of being the last all granite structure to be built in Aberdeen.