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66
Old Church Street
Old Church Street is a street in London, England in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelseabr>
It runs from Chelsea Embankment to Fulham Road, crossing Kings Road. The section to the north of Kings Road is sometimes called Upper Old Church S ...
in
Chelsea
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* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
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, London, was designed in 1935–1936 for the politician and playwright
Benn Levy
Benn Wolfe Levy (7 March 1900 – 7 December 1973) was a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons (1945–1950), and a successful playwright. He was educated at Repton School and University College, Oxford and served in uniform ...
by
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect
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and
Maxwell Fry
Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Originally trained in the neo-classical style of architecture, Fry grew to favour the n ...
. Levy House formed part of a joint development with
Cohen House, designed by
Erich Mendelsohn
Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic Functionalism (architecture), functionalism in his projects for department ...
and
Serge Chermayeff
Serge Ivan Chermayeff (born Sergei Ivanovich Issakovich; russian: link=no, Сергей Ива́нович Иссако́вич; 8 October 1900 – 8 May 1996) was a Russian-born British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of ...
for the publisher Denis Cohen. It was listed at
Grade II
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in 1970.
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66 Old Church Street is listed Grade II
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on the National Heritage List for England
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.
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Chelsea, London
Houses completed in 1936
Walter Gropius buildings
Modernist architecture in London
Houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Grade II listed houses in London
Grade II listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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