Built for the third Duke of Devonshire in about 1740 and used as the London residence for his family until its demolition in 1924. The garden to the north stretched as far as Lansdowne House. The gates and gate piers were reused at the entrance to Green Park, opposite Half Moon Street. Also, it is said that the Green Park tube station ticket office is the old wine cellar.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Devonshire House
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Devonshire Coat-of-Arms
{On a nearby modern plaque:} The Devonshire Coat-of-Arms Removed from the por...
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Sir John Summerson
Museum curator and architectural historian. Born John Newenham Summerson at Barnstead, Coniscliffe Road, Darlington. He taught at Edinburgh College of Art, and had professorships at Oxford and Camb...
Gordon and Viner
Architects. We can find no other building by this pair, nor anything about them.
Benjamin Wyatt
Baptized at St Marylebone. Designed the Drury Lane Theatre. Died, unmarried, in Stanhope Street, York Place, Regent's Park, leaving everything to his long-time servant, Martha.
Walter Gropius
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