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Embassy of the United States

Countries: USA

The first US Minister to the Court of St James, John Adams, rented No 9 Grosvenor Square in 1785. After that the American Embassy in London was situated variously in Great Cumberland Place, Piccadilly, Portland Place and Grosvenor Gardens. In 1938, it moved to 1 Grosvenor Square. 2013: The current (heavily defended) building in Grosvenor Square, designed by Eero Saarinen, opened in 1960. There are plans to relocate to an even more secure site in the Nine Elms area of London.

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US Embassy & Brooks Adams

United States Embassy, 1863 - 1866. Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918, U.S. hi...

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895, American social reformer, author, orator and ...

Phillis Wheatley

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Women's Social and Political Union

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Alfonso López-Pumarejo

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Mr Alderman Cotton, MP

One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital.

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1 memorial

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis

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Kew Gardens war memorial

TW9, Kew Gardens, Temple of Arethusa

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War dead | WW1, WW2
54 subjects commemorated, 1 creator

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Smithfield war memorial

EC1, Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market

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War dead | WW1
214 subjects commemorated, 8 creators

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Laurence Olivier statue

SE1, South Bank, National Theatre waterfront

Unveiled by Sir Richard Attenborough, Larry‘s son, Tarquin and widow, Joan Plowright. The list of "principal contributors" has some surpr...

1 subject commemorated, 45 creators

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Aske's Hospital

About the building, from Shoreditch College: "The first building on {this site} was Aske's Hospital or the Haberdashers' Alms Houses, erected 1690-93 to designs of Robert Hooke ... for the Worshipf...

Group, Education, Social Welfare

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Reschid Pasha

W1, Bryanston Square, 1

Greater London Council Mustapha Reschid Pasha, 1800 - 1858, Turkish statesman and reformer, lived here as Ambassador in 1839.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator

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