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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.
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Montagu House, Bloomsbury, former mansion that became first...
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The Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall was a large enclosed space in Westminster, London, that was originally a pleasure garden used by the late Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England. It was created under Henry VIII and was expanded and improved under his successors, but lost its royal patronage after the Palace of Whitehall was ...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, former mansion that became first home of the British Museum, also known as Montague House, since demolished. (a slang term for British Museum, on Great Russell Street, London, on site of former mansion)
23 giu 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.
Montagu House is a palatial residence in the French Renaissance style, constructed in Portland stone, with a high-pitched and turretted slate roof. The prominent chimney stacks and the gabled dormers with the high roof, relieve an otherwise somewhat featureless exterior (Plate 101).
Dover House is a Grade I-listed mansion in Whitehall, and the London headquarters of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland. The building also houses the Office of the Advocate General for Scotland and the Independent Commission for Aid Impact.
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.
