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Jun 23, 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 at 22 Portman Square was a historic London house. Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.
Sep 17, 2021 · Until the mid-1950s, the site of the Nobu Hotel and Portman Towers at the north-west corner of Portman Square in Marylebone was occupied by Montagu House, a freestanding townhouse set in one of London’s largest private gardens.
Aug 14, 2020 · By a distance the grandest mansion in London of its time, Montagu House was sold by the second Duke of Montagu after he had moved to Whitehall. It was built on the site of an earlier Montagu House designed in 1675 by the polymath Robert Hooke who, when he wasn’t arguing with Isaac Newton about the inverse square law, was mainly responsible ...
Montagu House was built by the first Duke of Montagu, who 'made money like a rogue and spent it like a gentleman' on his patronage of the arts, the finest examples of which were to be found in this London house which was to become the first home of the British Museum.
He built Montagu House, in Bloomsbury, London, in 1675–80 to the designs of Robert Hooke; it contained some of Antonio Verrio’s finest frescoes. Bought by the government in 1753 to hold the national collection of antiquities, it became the nucleus of the British Museum and Library.
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England. Circa Date: 1687. Status: Destroyed. Demolished 1840s. House Open to Public: No. Country House: No (Townhouse) The Grand Staircase when the House served as the British Museum. From "Old and New London," circa 1880.
