Charles Rennie Mackintosh's famous Hill House

The Hill House, Helensburgh

Hill House, said to be the largest and finest of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's domestic buildings, . . . occupies a hillside site, high above the town of Helensburgh, that looks out over the Clyde estuary, and is surrounded by grounds which were meticulously landscaped by Mackintosh, who even went to the extent of instructing how the trees should be clipped.

Walter Blackie, director of the well-known Glasgow publishers, commissioned not only the house and garden but much of the furniture and all the interior fittings and decorative schemes. So Mackintosh designed it for the Blackie family and even altered the design of Hill House, while building progressed, to accommodate a nursery for a new baby -- an unexpected addition to the Blackie family.