A. Stewart & Co.

A. STEWART & Co. (Late A. & T. Stewart & Cot), Masons, Wrights, and Contractors, 47, Maxwell Road, Glasgow. Telephone: No. 3407.

    The continuous expansion of Glasgow and its environs within the past twenty years and the great increases of its domestic and industrial accommodation may be in a large measure attributed to the progressive operations of the City’s building and contracting firms, and of such concerns particularly as that of Messrs. A. Stewart & Co., the well-known proprietors of Mason Works, at 47, Maxwell Road.

    At this address the firm possess sufficient resources to provide for the largest or most exacting demands of the building trade. The spacious masonry sheds, the extensive yards intersected with a service of railway lines, the well-equipped smithy shops, and the mortar mills wherein the firm grind all their materials and prepare their own mortar supplies, all adequately attest the self-contained character of Messrs. Stewart's industry and the great completeness to which such an organisation can attain. The mortar mills are appointed throughout by machinery of the best description and the entire plant is propelled by steam power. There are also large stores for building materials, together with oil and paint stores and general stores in Pollokshaw Road. Messrs. Stewart are builders on a very extensive scale, completing structures of every kind on their own account, and fitting and completing them throughout in a manner which concentrates and economises the whole of the minor details of work. In various districts of the City they have erected many substantial buildings, all of which command ready purchasers as soon as completed, which fact testifies more than anything else to the solidity and efficiency of all work executed by the firm, and specimens of their work are seen in the large blocks recently erected by them in Dowanhill and Govanhill, which may be aptly described as very fine examples of speculative enterprise. A specimen of their contract work is to be seen in the handsome church recently erected at the junction of Crown Street and Cathcart Street, South Side.

    Messrs. Stewart give employment to a staff, on an average throughout the year, of 150 hands, besides the large numbers employed by their sub-contractors. The operations are ably and assiduously superintended by the principal, Mr. Archibald Stewart, in person. They were the first to introduce numerous conveniences in connection with the middle-class of flatted houses, such as large and airy bathrooms, hot water arrangements, wall tiles to the closes, &c. Their well-appointed offices at the above address are connected with the Telephone Exchange, and every facility maintained by the firm is eminently favourable to the continuous success and progressiveness of the undertaking, which their judicious and well-directed efforts have rendered one of the first centres of Glasgow’s building activity and commerce.

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