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Montagu House in Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, was the town house built by John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749), whose country seat was Boughton House in Northamptonshire.
Montagu House foi um palácio londrino construído em 1731 pelo 2º Duque de Montagu e totalmente reconstruído no final da década de 1850 pelo 5º Duque de Buccleuch, descendente do anterior. Ficava situado numa das mais importantes artérias de Westminster, a Whitehall, no centro de Londres .
23 de jun. de 2017 · It was rebuilt to a similar design and it is this second Montagu House that was to become the first home of the British Museum. It was a beautiful French-style house with an ornate interior decorative scheme, described in its day as one of the finest private houses in London.
House & Family History: Montagu House, Whitehall, was an mid-19th century exuberant French-style chateau designed by William Burn. It was one of the last great houses to be built in London and one of the largest, costing the enormous amount of £100,000 (equivalent to approximately £139 million in 2017 inflation-adjusted values).
The trees outside the front entrance to Whitehall Gardens were the last survivors of the original Privy Garden, and stood until as recently as the late 1930s. Among the houses in Whitehall Gardens were Montagu House and Pembroke House, a Palladian riverside villa with elaborate interiors.
In 1917 the house was taken over for use as government offices, and a few years later it was demolished. The site forms roughly the southern half of that of the current main Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall.
17 de set. de 2021 · Montagu House, Portman Square: the story of a lost Georgian town palace. By Survey of London, on 17 September 2021. This blog post was written for the Survey of London by Rory Lamb, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, who researched the history of Montagu House for the Survey this summer, during a two-month work placement ...
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