My City: Glasgow, Scotland.
Harvard student John F Kennedy made his first public address IN 1939 at the Beresford Hotel in Glasgow
The Beresford Hotel in Sauchiehall Street, was opened in 1938. Described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, it was the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the wars. The Art Deco curved towers of the facade reflect the design found in many of Glasgow's cinemas of the 1930s.
The architect, William Beresford Inglis of Weddell & Inglis, was also the hotel's owner and managing director. The hotel became a favourite rendezvous for American servicemen during the Second World War.
JFK, who was 22 at the time, was sent from London to Glasgow by his father Joseph to represent the United States of America for the first time. Kennedy senior was the US Ambassador to Great Britain
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