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Montagu House (other)
Montagu House or Montague House may refer to: England *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) *Montagu House, Portman Square, built for Elizabeth Montagu on Portman Square *Montagu House, Whitehall, another London mansion *Montagu House, Blackheath United States *Henry Montague House, Kalamazoo, Michigan, listed on the National Register of Historic Places Australia *Monty House (Montague Grant House, born 1946), Western Australian politician See also *Montacute House *Montague (other) Montague may refer to: Places Australia * Montague Road, Adelaide * Montague, a neighbourhood in South Melbourne, Victoria * Montague Street Bridge, South Melbourne * Montague railway station, South Melbourne Canada * Montague, Ontario ** Smi ... * Montagu (other) {{disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montagu House, Bloomsbury
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. The rebuilt house was sold to the British Museum in 1759, and demolished in the 1840s to make way for the present larger building. Construction The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, and Montagu purchased a site which is now in the heart of London but which then backed onto open fields (the Long Fields). First house His first house was designed by the English architect and scientist Robert Hooke, an architect of moderate ability whose style was influenced by French planning and Dutch detailing, and was built between 1675 and 1679. Admired by contemporaries, it had a central block and two service blocks flanking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
