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By 1857 the square contained a bank, an insurance society, two government offices, the London Library, two lodging-houses and three clubs. However, some of the houses continued to be occupied by the fashionable and wealthy into the twentieth century. The Libyan embassy in St James's Square was the site of the 1984 Libyan Embassy Siege ...
The Royal Institute of International Affairs has its headquarters in central London at 10 St James's Square, which is known as Chatham House.It is a Grade I listed 18th-century building that was designed in part by Henry Flitcroft and was occupied by three British prime ministers, including William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, whose name became associated with the house. [1]
1, St. Stephen's Square (renamed St. Stephen's Gardens in 1938), Westbourne Grove, Bayswater: The arts: Founded as the Notting Hill and Bayswater Club Portland Club: c1815 as the Stratford Club; renamed 1825. Originally, 1 Stratford Place, then 9 St James's Square 1890–1943 Card-playing game club: Now located within the Army & Navy Club ...
St James's was once part of the same royal park as Green Park and St. James's Park.In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans who developed it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area around a grid of streets centred on St James's Square.
10 St James's Square St James's SW1Y 4LE 1910 () 258 : William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) "lived here 1803 to 1804" 120 Baker Street Marylebone W1U 6TU 1949 () 465 : The plaque dates from 1949, replacing a London County Council plaque from 1904. [37] Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900)
Chatham House, 10 St. James's Square, London. He was the first Secretary and Director-General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs serving as its chief executive between 1929 and 1955 based at Chatham House, 10 St. James's Square, London, S.W.1.
St. James's Square, c. 1722 Fitzroy Square. Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more hardscape, constituting town squares (also known as city squares)—to those with communal gardens, for which London is a major international exponent, known as garden squares.
5, St James's Square (anciently Wentworth House) is a Grade II* listed historic townhouse in London, England, built 1748–51 by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791) to the design of Matthew Brettingham the Elder.