Hotel Russell
| Hotel Russell | |
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| General information | |
| Location |
Russell Square, London,  UK |
| Coordinates | 51°31′22″N 0°07′30″W / 51.5227°N 0.1250°W |
| Opening | 1898 |
| Management | Principal Hayley Group |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Charles Fitzroy Doll |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 373 |
| Website | |
| http://www.hotelrusselllondon.co.uk | |
The Hotel Russell [1] is a four star hotel, located on Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, owned and operated by the Principal Hayley Group. It was built in 1898 by the architect, Charles Fitzroy Doll. It is distinctively clad in decorative thé-au-lait ("tea with milk") terracotta, and was based on the Château de Madrid on the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Its restaurant, which is named after the architect, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic's dining room which he also designed.
A sister hotel by the same architect, the Imperial Hotel, was also built on Russell Square but was demolished in the late 1960s.[2]
The life-size statues of four British Queens above the main entrance were the work of sculptor Henry Charles Fehr.
The façade, by Doll, incorporates the coats of arms of the world's nations as they were in 1898 in the spandrels of the first floor.[3]
The hotel was one of the few that were not taken over by the War Office during the Second World War. It survived the war largely intact, but the magnificent dome that stood on the roof was badly damaged in an air raid of 1941 and not replaced.[3]
See also
Gallery
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Statues of British Queens on the Hotel Russell by Henry Charles Fehr
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Statues of British Queens on the Hotel Russell by Henry Charles Fehr
References
- ↑ Official Website
- ↑ http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=subjects&s=item&key=SYToyOntpOjA7aToxNDQ7aToxO3M6NjoiSG90ZWxzIjt9&pg=1236
- 1 2 "Hotel Russell, Russell Square London". waymarking.com. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
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