Proposals For Completion
Early proposals for completion work tended to focus on following the original plans, however, during the early 20th century several alternative plans were proposed:
- as a monument to Queen Victoria (1901)
- as a monument commemorating the 1707 Act of Union with England (1907)
- as a new Scottish National Gallery (1907)
- as a Scottish Parliament building (1908)
- as a memorial to those who fell in the Great War (1918, George Washington Browne)
Subsequent attempts to 'complete' the National Monument have never borne fruit for reasons of either cost or lack of local enthusiasm. A proposal in 2004 met with a mixed reception.
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