Charlotte Square Private Garden

This guide to Charlotte Square's private garden in Edinburgh centers on architect Robert Adam, who in 1791 designed the square's grandest side to look like one continuous palace, when it was really a row of separate townhouses hiding behind a single stone face. It follows Adam to his death the next year, before a single foundation was laid, and the three decades it took other builders to finish his vision. The square itself was not completed until 1820, long after Adam had signed his original drawings.