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…

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Streets 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…

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Streets 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…

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Streets 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…

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Streets 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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