Posts Tagged ‘1813’
Cottage Ornee Designs circa 1813, 1816 and 1817 – London Architecture
“OFFICES. In forming this plan, care has been taken to avoid whatever experience has found to be objectionable relating to the domestic offices, and to afford facility of communication to the apartments, without subjecting them to inconvenience or offence. The door of separation in the hall completely divides the offices from the superior parts of…
Read MorePromenade Dresses circa 1810 to 1820 – London Fashion Designs – Page 3
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Streets of London – London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mark Lane circa 1813
“On the 1st of June, 1811, the first stone was laid. […] The ground-floor is occupied by a large coffee-room, 59 feet 10 inches by 31 feet six inches. The ascent to the public sale-rooms, is from the center of the north end of the coffee-room […]. The floor up one pair stairs is divided…
Read MoreStreets of London – British Museum – Montagu House, London circa 1813
“The site of the building is inclosed by a high brick wall, which excludes the view on every side. The entrance in Great Russel-street, Bloomsbury, leads into a spacious quadrangle, on the north side of which appears the main building, 216 feet in length and 57 in height to the top of the cornice; with…
Read MoreStreets of London – Grosvenor Square, London circa 1813
“This square received its name from Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bart. […]. This gentlemen had a great passion for building, and covered a considerable plot of ground in the neighborhood, between New Bond-street and Hyde Park, which now produces an immense income to his descendant, the Earl of Grosvenor. Grosvenor-Square covers six acres of ground, is…
Read MoreStreets of London – Portman Square, London 1813
“This square is esteemed the next in beauty, as it is in extent, to Grosvenor-square. […] It is of more modern erection than any of the other squares in the western part of the metropolis, and received its name from an opulent family, to which its site and that of several of the adjacent street…
Read MoreStreets of London – Manchester Square, London 1813
“It is situated a little distance from the north side of Oxford-street, between Cavendish and Portman-Squares; and the period at which it was built, was likewise intermediate to the dates of their erection. […] The ground on the north side lay vacant till the late Duke of Manchester purchased the site, and erected upon it…
Read MoreStreets of London – Cavendish Square, North Side, London circa 1813
“At the beginning of the last century, Marybone, in which Cavendish-square is situated, was a small village nearly a mile distant from any part of the metropolis. It was not till 1715 that a plan was formed for building this square and several streets on the north of Tyburn-road, which has since assumed the name…
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