Old Athenaeum
Old Athenaeum is a building in Glasgow City, Scotland. Old Athenaeum is situated nearby to Buchanan Gardens, as well as near the metro station Buchanan Street subway station.Photo: Lirazelf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: former theater in Glasgow, Scotland, now a restaurant
- Also known as: “Athenaeum”, “Athenaeum Theatre”, “Old Athenaeum, Glasgow”, and “The Athenaeum Building”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Glasgow Queen Street railway station and St George’s Tron Church.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central. Glasgow Queen Street railway station is situated 660 feet east of Old Athenaeum.
St George’s Tron Church
Church
Photo: Finlay McWalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St George's Tron Church, in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Church of Scotland church in the city centre, located in Nelson Mandela Place, previously known as St George's Place, fronting Buchanan Street at West George Street, along from Queen Street Station.
Buchanan Street subway station
Metro station
Buchanan Street subway station is a station on the Glasgow Subway in Scotland. It serves the major shopping thoroughfare of Buchanan Street, and is one of two stations on the Subway that directly serve the city centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Blythswood Hill.
Glasgow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Blythswood Hill
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blythswood Hill, crowned by Blythswood Square, is an area of central Glasgow, Scotland. Its grid of streets extend from the length of the west side of Buchanan Street to Gordon Street and Bothwell Street, and to Charing Cross, Sauchiehall Street and Garnethill.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Old Athenaeum
- Categories: theater building and restaurant
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.86258° or 55° 51′ 45″ northLongitude
-4.25442° or 4° 15′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C7QVP7W+26OpenStreetMap ID
way 117350690OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q31548656
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In Other Languages
“Old Athenaeum” goes by many names.
- German: “Athenaeum Theatre”
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