John Rhind

Ardverikie House, designed by John Rhind in 1871, and the setting for the BBC TV series Monarch of the Glen. John Rhind (10 March 1836 – 10 August 1889) was an architect from Inverness, Scotland.

Biography John Rhind was born in Banffshire in 1836, son of the Inverness architect builder George Rhind and his wife Isabella Milne. He was probably initially articled to his father, but around 1854 he went to Glasgow, where he became an assistant to Campbell Douglas, remaining with him during the early years of his partnership with J. J. Stevenson. At Douglas' he became acquainted with Bruce James Talbert and took an interest in the work of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson whose influence was later to be reflected in Rhind's Imperial Hotel and Union Street buildings, both in Inverness. While in Glasgow he is said to have been a Vice-President of the Young Architectural Association of Glasgow, perhaps a junior branch of the Glasgow Architectural Society. Ardverikie (1871) — used for filming the BBC TV series Monarch of the Glen Celtic Cross Monument to Ian Lom Macdonald, Bard of Keppoch (1873) Moy School and Schoolmaster’s House (1874) Lochardil House and Lodge, Inverness (1876) Inverness High School (1878) — now the Crown Primary School Glenmoriston Manse (1880) Glen Spean Lodge (1881) Invergarry (1885)