Building    From 1735  To 1924

Devonshire House

Categories: Architecture, Property

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. 

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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

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...

Person, Architecture, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Gordon and Viner

Gordon and Viner

Architects. We can find no other building by this pair, nor anything about them.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Benjamin Wyatt

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.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Architect. Born Walter Adolph Georg Gropius in Berlin. He founded the Bauhaus school. His door handle designs are still being made today. At the rise of Hitler he and his wife Ilse moved to London ...

Person, Architecture, Seriously Famous, Germany, USA

1 memorial