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Prince's Hall was a concert venue in
Piccadilly Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Cou ...
, London. It was part of the premises of the
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, at 190–195 Piccadilly, situated behind the galleries where annual exhibitions of the Institute took place."Prince's Hall, Piccadilly Street in London"
''Central Online Victorian Educator''. Retrieved 31 October 2020.'Piccadilly, South Side', in ''Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster'', Part 1, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1960)
British History Online. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
The building was opened by the
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and
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in 1883. In 1900 the Prince's Hall was joined with the Prince's Hotel to the rear, and became a restaurant. Prince's Hotel, built about 1898, was at 36–38
Jermyn Street Jermyn Street is a one-way street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster in London, England. It is to the south of, parallel, and adjacent to Piccadilly. Jermyn Street is known as a street for gentlemen's-clothing retailers. Histor ...
, which runs parallel to Piccadilly to the south. From 1929 to 1933 there was extensive alteration: the hotel was converted into offices and business premises, and
Princes Arcade Princes Arcade is an arcade of shops running between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street in central London. It is home to a number of small menswear shops and boutiques. The arcade is located on the site of the former Princes Hotel, designed by Edward ...
was constructed between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street.


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