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In 1938, the embassy was moved to 1 Grosvenor Square (which later housed part of the Canadian High Commission). During this time, Grosvenor Square began to accommodate several U.S. government offices, including the headquarters of Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the European headquarters of the United States Navy.
In 1960, a new United States Embassy was built on the western side of Grosvenor Square. This was a large and architecturally significant modern design by Eero Saarinen , being at the time a controversial insertion into a mainly Georgian and neo-Georgian district of London.
From 1938 to 1960, the building was the Embassy of the United States. [2] The Government of Canada sold Macdonald House to a property developer in 2013 and vacated the building in 2014. [1] Subsequently, Macdonald House was converted into high-end residential building named №1 Grosvenor Square. [3]
The memorial was erected in 1985, near the US Embassy in London (which at that time stood on 24 Grosvenor Square), and close to a statue of the US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was officially unveiled in May 1986 by the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. It was listed at Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in 2016. [2]
Over in Mayfair on Grosvenor Square, Rosewood will open its second location in the city, The Chancery Rosewood after an extensive renovation (the previous tenant was the United States Embassy).
30 Belgrave Square Belgravia [11] Bangladesh: 28 Queen's Gate Kensington [12] Barbados: 1 Great Russell Street. Bloomsbury [13] Belarus: 6 Kensington Court South Kensington [14] Belize: 45 Crawford Place: Marylebone [15] Belgium: 17 Grosvenor Crescent: Belgravia [16] Bolivia: 106 Eaton Square
It organised a demonstration of 20,000 people in October 1967 that for the first time ignored police warnings not to enter Grosvenor Square, where the United States Embassy in London was then located. In March and October 1968 two major demonstrations in London, sponsored by the VSC, drew more than 100,000 participants. Serious police violence ...
The United States embassy announced in 2008 it would move from its long-established location at Grosvenor Square to Nine Elms, Wandsworth, owing to security concerns, despite constructing an £8m security upgrading after the September 11 attacks including 6 ft (1.8 m) high blast walls. [36]