Architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1902.
The jewel in a town of elegant villas. Considered to be Mackintosh's finest domestic building. The property sits on the hillside at the top of the town and has commanding views over the Clyde Estuary. Owned by the National Trust for Scotland, the house is open to the public from April through October. It contains fine examples of original Mackintosh furniture.

Architect A N Paterson 1901-2
Longcroft was built by Paterson as the family home. The crest over the entrance has the intertwined initials of Paterson (ANP) and his wife Maggie Hamilton (MH). The two storey building plus basement is an asymmetrical L-plan villa. It retains some of the original interior fittings including an embroidered panel by Maggie Hamilton. The art noveau chimney is by George Walton.

Architect J S Boyd 1935.
One of the most significant art deco houses in Scotland. Many of the original fittings survive including the walnut panelled hall and Vitrolite panelled bathrooms. In a town of more traditional Victorian and Edwardian villas, the property is an elegant statement of distinctive style. The pure horizontal and vertical lines contrast with the archictectural embellishments of the past.

Architect J and R S Ingram 1887.
Minor additions and alterations by A N Paterson, 1899. 2-storey, near-symmetrical T-plan Scots Baronial town hall.
The Friends of the Victoria Hall was founded in 2000. They carried out the magnificent restoration of the Pillar Hall and conservation of many of the interior rooms. The gates project was completed last year.
These efforts are a fine example of conservation in action.

Architect William Leiper 1895. Additions 1899.
T-plan hospital with 2-storey centre block and single storey wings.

Architect Unknown 1802.
The original parts of the house predate the formation of the Burgh. Cromalt was the home of Neil Munro, the author of the Para Handy series and other works of fiction who died there in 1930. The coach house and stables form a separate listing in Historic Scotland records.

Architect Unknown Early 19th Century
The Imperial Hotel was a former Tontine Inn which had a stagegoach service which left every morning to meet the steamer at Luss.
A tontine is a legal arrangement in which a number of investors take part. As each investor dies, their share is inherited by the remaining members until the last survivor inherits the property. Tontines were popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth century but are most frequently encountered as plot devices in murder mysteries these days.

Architect James Carswell, North British Railway Engineering Department 1898-9.
Built by the North British Railway Company. 2-storey, 4-bay Renaissance station offices with separate range of single storey waiting rooms linked by partly glazed barrel-vaulted platform roof and leading to platforms with panelled screen walls and further fine pitch-roofed canopies

Architect Isaac Dixon, Windsor Iron Works, Liverpool 1885.
Single storey, rectangular-plan hall. Corrugated-iron. Overhanging eaves, decorative bargeboard to gable. North elevation with doorway to centre, large semi-circular window above to gablehead. Corrugated-iron roof with full-length lantern and ridge cresting. One of the largest corrugated-iron structures in Scotland. The building formerly accommodated a large hall with armoury, officer's room and reading rooms to the rear.

The flywheel of the original engine of the Comet and anvil used by Henry Bell, presented to the town council of Helensburgh in 1912 by R & W Murrich whose grandfather was blacksmith to Henry Bell, on the occasion of the centenary of the Coment.
Henry Bell built the Comet, the first commercially successful steam powered ship in Europe. The ship was launched in 1812 and sailed on the west coast for a number of years.
Henry Bell owned the Bath Hotel, now Queens Court and was the first Provost of Helensburgh.

Architect J W and J Hay 1853.
The porch is a later addition by William Leiper (1892). Following a fire, the building was restored by Robert Wemyss in 1924. Built for the Free Church congregation at a cost of $45,000. Following amalgamation with the United Presbyterian Church in 1900, it become the West United Free Church. Rev Alexander Anderson presented the stained glass window in the west gable. Leiper's porch was erected as a memorial to Mr Anderson.

Architect Neil C Duff 1913.
In the heyday of "The Pictures" as the main form of mass entertainment, Helensburgh had two cinemas. The La Scala opened for business in 1913 and showed silent movies until 1930 when it was converted for sound and the era of the "Talkies". TV was the death knell for small local cinemas and the last film was shown in the theatre in 1984.
There is an excellent local web site which pays homage to the building and what it represented for the community.