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Building started in 1967 and was completed in 1972, [6] though the building fell some way short of its intended size. The original plan extended up to Euston Road but the Ministry of Defence would not release the site of a building they leased for use by the Territorial Army (and that still stands next to the Centre today). [citation needed]
Since 1998, the British Library has been located in a purpose-built building just outside the northern edge of Bloomsbury, in Euston Road. Also in Bloomsbury is the Foundling Museum, close to Brunswick Square, which tells the story of the Foundling Hospital opened by Thomas Coram for unwanted children in Georgian London.
Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum. The first house on the site was destroyed by fire in 1686.
46 Gordon Square, where Virginia Woolf lived with her siblings from 1904 to 1907 (the first among the writer's five Bloomsbury addresses) [2] and where John Maynard Keynes lived from 1916 to 1946. The economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) lived at 46 Gordon Square, [ 3 ] marked by a blue plaque .
Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford. None of the original 17th-century buildings survive, but there are many handsome 18th- and early 19th-century houses.
Cubitt had two brothers, the contractor and politician William and the civil engineer Lewis who designed many houses built by Thomas. [11]Cubitt married Mary Anne Warner (1802–1880), on 25 March 1821 in the church of St Marylebone and they had at least twelve children – Anne (1820), Mary (1821), Emily (1823), George (1828), Sophia (1830), Fanny (1832), William (1834), Lucy (1835), Caroline ...
The carriage house has been converted into a community center with a rooftop deck and porthole skylights. There's a new community garden, set against a stained-glass wall made from repurposed building materials and architectural elements. Mr. Hooper's store has retained its art deco barstools and lunch counter, but now has free Wi-Fi.
Roman building ingenuity extended over bridges, aqueducts, and covered amphitheatres. Their sewerage and water-supply works were remarkable and some systems are still in operation today. The only aspect of Roman construction for which very little evidence survives is the form of timber roof structures, none of which seem to have survived intact.