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Formakin House is an early 20th-century mansion and estate in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is located south of the Firth of Clyde, and west of Bishopton. Formakin was designed by Robert Lorimer for wealthy businessman John Holms, though the main house was never completed. It declined during the 20th century, but in the 1990s, restoration of the estate buildings was completed. The house is protected as a category B listed building,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Formakin House: Listed Building Report )〕 and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens. ==History== Formakin was the creation of John Augustus Holms (d. 1938), a stockbroker and art collector from Paisley. He purchased Millbank Farm, as it was then known, in 1902 and commissioned a new house that would contain his art collection, from his friend, the architect Robert Lorimer. Lorimer initially prepared plans for the estate, which was laid out from 1903. In 1907 the entrance lodges and stables were designed. The following year Lorimer converted the Old Meal Mill by the Dargavel Burn, where Holms lived while the new house was underway. Lorimer produced designs for the house in 1909, in the style of a 17th-century Scottish tower house. Other buildings on the estate follow the same pattern. The former stable or bothy block, now known as the Miller's Tower, bears a stone inscribed with the date "1694", with the letters "DL" standing for "damned lie".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bothy Block With Attached Buildings, Formakin House: Listed Building Report )〕 Peter Anderson Graham, editor of ''Country Life'', when shown a photograph of the building believed that it did in fact date to the 17th century.〔 The gate lodges are topped with stone monkeys, earning the local nickname "The Monkey House". The walled garden and other planting in the grounds was designed by Lorimer under the guidance of Gertrude Jekyll.〔 The shell of the house had been completed by 1913, when work stopped.〔 Holms had lost money on a bad speculation, and a fall from a horse supposedly upset his mental balance.〔 Further work was carried out in 1920, but the house was never completed. Nevertheless, Holms continued to live on the estate, giving dinner parties in the half-finished house.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Formakin House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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