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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 .
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 (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.
Montagu House pode referir-se a um dos seguintes palácios londrinos pertencentes aos Duques de Montagu: Montagu House (Bloomsbury), situado na Great Russell Street, distrito de Bloomsbury, o qual se tornou na primeira casa do Museu Britânico. Montagu House (Whitehall), situado no Whitehall, Westminster.
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.
Alice Christabel Montagu Douglass Scott was born in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter and fifth child of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (later Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry), and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman, daughter of the 4th Earl of Bradford.
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.
