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Dorset Square. Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. All buildings fronting it are terraced houses and listed, in the mainstream (initial) category. It takes up the site of Lord's (MCC's) Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season. Internally it spans 100,000 square feet (9,290 m 2).
The Clarence Gate Mansions were built between 1905 and 1910 to the east of Dorset Square, alongside The Regent's Park's Clarence Gate.In 1978, following consultations by the City of Westminster, they became part of the protected Dorset Square Conservation Area [1] together with the Grade II* listed church St Cyprian’s, the Art Deco tower of Abbey House, the Rudolf Steiner House and Hall, and ...
28 Dorset Square Marylebone NW1 6QG 1963 () 2246 : George Grossmith, Jr. (1874–1935) "ACTOR-MANAGER lived here" 3 Spanish Place Marylebone W1U 3HX 1963 () 2128 : A second blue plaque on the building commemorates Frederick Marryat. [18] George Grote (1794–1871) "Historian Died Here" 12 Savile Row Mayfair W1S 3PS 1905 () 4270 : Lord Haldane
Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward's operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors ...
A four-story home with three-story coach house, both built on a grand scale and in a late-Italian Renaissance style, the Theuer-Wrigley House is one of Chicago's most stunning homes. The house itself covers over 15,000 square feet, including eight bedrooms, a conservatory and a ballroom. A three-story coach house has additional bedrooms.
He was Forster's junior by 46 years. They met at Long Crichel House, a Georgian rectory in Long Crichel, Dorset, a country retreat shared by Edward Sackville-West and the gallery owner and artist Eardley Knollys. [27] [28] Forster lived and died at this house, the home of his friends Robert and May Buckingham.
The building overlooks Dorset Square, the original home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and Lord's cricket ground is a walkable distance, perhaps 20 minutes, away. The London Business School , adjacent to nearby Regent's Park, has leased and refurbished the former Westminster City Council building directly opposite Marathon House.
The 1,765,000 square foot (164,000 m 2) building contains 65,000 cubic yards (50,000 m³) of concrete and 12,000 tons of structural steel. It took about 2,700 truckloads to excavate the building's foundation, and 1,300,000 man hours over nearly two years to finish. Twenty-eight high speed elevators serve the building.