Twentieth century palace; the Piccadilly Hotel; with some notes on the history, landmarks & worthies of Piccadilly & Regent street . r be closely linkedwith the annals of Piccadilly. Not only is the PiccadillyHotel the latest and most perfect exemplification of art/as applied to this particular class of building, but it enjoysthe inestimable advantage of occupying a site which isabsolutely unique, commanding at once, as it unquestion-ably does, the most central and important portion oftwo of the world s great thoroughfares-—Piccadilly andRegent Street, both within the confines of the ancientCi
Twentieth century palace; the Piccadilly Hotel; with some notes on the history, landmarks & worthies of Piccadilly & Regent street . r be closely linkedwith the annals of Piccadilly. Not only is the PiccadillyHotel the latest and most perfect exemplification of art/as applied to this particular class of building, but it enjoysthe inestimable advantage of occupying a site which isabsolutely unique, commanding at once, as it unquestion-ably does, the most central and important portion oftwo of the world s great thoroughfares-—Piccadilly andRegent Street, both within the confines of the ancientCity of Westminster. Although the latter has still towait ten years for the centenary of its construction,the former has figured in some shape or other on themap of London for nearly three centuries. The Piccadillv Hotel. Tneodore Hook was accustomed to say that London, par excellence, is bounded on the north by Piccadilly, on the south by Pall Mall, on the east by the Haymarket, and on the west by St. Jamess Street. ^i-.— iiLS.—,;.««--J-•«->?-r^ »-;,^....S:-.^J4 ^•..?^^•^-?^^ I ??&«-_ s*-*? ^,^^i. *. •.^i*-?^t:5r^nL General Plan of St. Jamess Square anj Piccadilly East about 1750. As far as the London of fashion is concerned be wasdoubtless approximately ight, and the striking epigram,of which he was the author, affords convincing proof ofthe value of the position now occupied by the splendid A Twentieth Centuvv Palace. and stately building, destined henceforth to promotematerially not only the convenience but the gaiety ofnations. By a strange coincidence writers of poetryand prose alike have always associated the fame of Picca-dilly with that of the palaces which grace its side.
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