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4 days ago · In 1905 His Grace the Duke of Bedford affixed at Nos. 101 and 102, Great Russell Street, a bronze tablet commemorative of the residence of Topham and Lady Diana Beauclerk. In 1781 William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield took up his residence at the house.
5 days ago · A large lump of black granodiorite known as the ‘Rosetta Stone’ which has a flat side bearing ancient Egyptian inscriptions (hieroglyphs) is housed in the British Museum on Great Russell Street, Holborn, London.
1 day ago · The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order 45 ft (14 m) high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.
2 days ago · British Museum, in London, comprehensive national museum with particularly outstanding holdings in archaeology and ethnography. Among its most famous pieces are the Elgin Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, and treasures from the ship burial found at Sutton Hoo.
13 hours ago · Russell Street. The part of this street lying within the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, was built under leases granted in 1631 and 1632, which are tabulated on pages 308–9. It was fully inhabited by about 1637.
May 20, 2024 · Hotel Russell, on the corner of Great Russell Street, London, was designed and built by Charles Fitzroy Doll in 1897/98 and opened in 1900. The lavishly decorated Portland Stone exterior is so "over the top" that its architecture was described as "all doll ed up" – hence the well know expression describing smartly turned out people etc.
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