Assembly Rooms
Event venue in Edinburgh, ScotlandWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
speaker_10HOST
So let's just keep this in mind as we continue.
speaker_10HOST
So then we go over to the assembly rooms, located on 54 George Street, also in Edinburgh.
speaker_10HOST
And it's just building after building in this city.
speaker_10HOST
where they tell us that the building was designed by a guy named John Henderson.
speaker_2HOST
So let's just keep this in mind as we continue.
speaker_2HOST
So then we go over to the Assembly Rooms, located on 54 George Street, also in Edinburgh.
speaker_2HOST
And it's just building after building in this city, where they tell us that the building was designed by a guy named John Henderson.
speaker_2HOST
And this guy won a competition in 1781.
Aaron PatrickHOST
Whereabouts was that?
Johann GoreeHOST
In Edinburgh in the Assembly Rooms, so up on George Street.
Johann GoreeHOST
So, yeah.
Johann GoreeHOST
Was that Saturday night or Sunday? Sunday.
William ZachsGUEST
There was, for an example, an event on the 11th of January in 1787, a large ball called the Caledonian Hunt Ball.
William ZachsGUEST
This was the big social event of the year that opened the inaugural event at the Assembly Rooms, our George Street, present day, festival-filled Assembly Rooms.
William ZachsGUEST
Burns was almost certainly there.
William ZachsGUEST
Raeburn very likely was there.