preserve the remaining examples of this unique architect's contribution to their city. The British emigre architect George Ashdown Audsley closely followed Thomson's ornamentation for several of his secular buildings. The most notable surviving example is his Bowling Green Offices (completed 1896) in New York City. The highly carved granite base of this tall office building is in the Thomson manner with brick Chicago School style floors above. Thomson was featured on the obverse of a 1999 commemorative £20 bank note from Clydesdale Bank of Scotland dated with his birthday 9 April, marking Glasgow's award that year as UK City of Architecture and Design. An interior view of the dome of Holmwood House, designed by Thomson, is the main motif on the reverse side. Five million notes were issued. Bibliography "Alexander Thomson: architectonics and ideals of the classic Glaswegian", John McKean, AA Files (Architectural Association, London), No 9, Summer 1985 Dignity and Decadence, Richard Jenkyns, Harvard University Press, 1991. "Greek" Thomson, Ed. Gavin Stamp and Sam McKinstry, Edinburgh UP,1994 'Thomson's City: 19th Century Glasgow', John McKean, in "Places : A Forum of Environmental Design", University of California (Cambridge Mass), Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1994, pp. 22–33. It is accessible at: Architecture of Glasgow, Andor Gomme and David Walker, Lund, 1987, 2nd. ed. Early Victorian Architecture in Britain Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Yale, 1954 The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson, Ronald MacFadzean, London, 1979 Alexander "Greek" Thomson, Gavin Stamp, 1999 The Greek Revival, J Mourdant Crook, 1972. "Glasgow: from 'Universal' to 'Regionalist' City and beyond - from Thomson to Mackintosh", John McKean, in Sources of Regionalism in 19th Century Architecture, Art and Literature, ed. van Santvoort, Verschaffel and De Meyer, Leuven, 2008 See also James Sellars References External links The Alexander Thomson Society Alexander Greek Thomson - Architect Photo Guide to some of Thomson's best known buildings List of Thomson's buildings Webpage on Holmwood House St Vincent Street Free Church of Scotland, Glasgow Craig Ailey Villa, Cove, Firth of Clyde Canmore page featuring interior and exterior photographs of Caledonia Road Church 1817 births 1875 deaths Greek Revival architects People from Stirling (council area) People associated with Glasgow Elders of the Church of Scotland 19th-century Scottish people Burials at the Southern Necropolis 19th-century Scottish architects