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Adelphi, London
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{{Short description|District of London in the City of Westminster}}{{EngvarB|date=June 2013}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}(File:View of the south front of the new buildings called Adelphi RP-P-OB-70.899.jpg|thumb|right|The Adam Brothers' Adelphi (1768â72) was London's first neoclassical building. Eleven large houses fronted a vaulted terrace, with wharves beneath, known as the Adelphi Arches'.)(File:11 Adelphi Terrace 2015.jpg|alt=11 Adelphi Terrace|thumb|Current view of the remaining building at 11 Adelphi Terrace, the furthest left house of the original buildings when viewed from the river.)Adelphi ({{IPAc-en|É|Ë|d|É|l|f|i}}; from the Greek á¼Î´ÎµÎ»Ïοί adelphoi, meaning "brothers") is a district of the City of Westminster in London.Mills, A., Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names, (2001) The small district includes the streets of Adelphi Terrace, Robert Street and John Adam Street. Of rare use colloquially, Adelphi is grouped with Aldwych as the greater Strand district (a main street of London between the two areas and those immediately adjoining) which for many decades formed a parliamentary constituency and civil registration district.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Adelphi Buildings
File:Alexander Nasmyth - A prospect of London (1826).jpg|thumb|right|A prospect of London by Alexander Nasmyth, 1826. The Adelphi Buildings can be seen to the left of Waterloo BridgeWaterloo BridgeFile:Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Adelphi, John Adam Street.jpg|thumb|The Art DecoArt DecoThe district is named after the Adelphi Buildings, a block of 24 unified neoclassical terrace houses that occupied the land between The Strand and the River Thames in the parish of St Martin in the Fields, which also included a headquarters building for the "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce" (now generally known as the Royal Society of Arts). They were built between 1768 and 1772 by the Adam brothers (John, Robert, James and William Adam), to whom the buildings' Greek-derived name refers. The ruins of Durham House on the site were demolished for their construction.Robert Adam was influenced by his extensive visit to Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia (previously Dalmatia), and he applied some of this influence to the design of the neoclassical Adelphi Buildings.Peter De Bolla, The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture, 2003, Stanford University Press. 296 pages {{ISBN|0-8047-4800-4}}C. Michael Hogan, "Diocletian's Palace", The Megalithic Portal, Andy Burnham ed, 6 Oct. 2007 The nearby Adelphi Theatre is named after the Adelphi Buildings.Many of the Adelphi Buildings were demolished in the early 1930s and replaced with the New Adelphi, a monumental Art Deco building designed by the firm of Collcutt & Hamp. Buildings remaining from the old Adelphi include 11 Adelphi Terrace (formerly occupied by numismatic specialists A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd) and the Royal Society of Arts headquarters (which has expanded to incorporate two of the former houses). Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop was located here in the 1940s.Notable residents
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The South Australian Colonization Commission (1834â1843) had their offices at 6 Adelphi Terrace in 1840.BOOK, The British Almanac of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for the year of our Lord 1840., Charles Knight & Co.,weblink 1840, 10 December 2020, 59, Rowland Hill was secretary to this body, and it was during this period that he devised his penny postage scheme.WEB, Adelphi Terrace, British History Online, 10 December 2020,weblink 10 December 2020,London School of Economics
The London School of Economics (LSE) held its first classes in October 1895, in rooms at 9 John Street, Adelphi,WEB, LSE 1895,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090805043238weblink">weblinkurl =weblink | year = 2000, 23 July 2009, before setting up more permanent operations in Number 10 Adelphi Terrace. By 1920, the LSE had moved a few blocks east, to its current Clare Market address. While in Adelphi, the LSEâs scholars and students were active in the surrounding neighbourhood and community.Street name etymologies{{Annotated image| image = 1830londonSW.png| image-width = 3000| image-left = -2550 | image-top = -450 | width = 400 | height = 400 | float = right| annotations = | caption = Crop of Christopher and John Greenwood's 8 inch-to-mile map published in 1827 from an 1830 republication (click to view all). The Adelphi is south of the Strand. }}Adelphi has no formally defined boundaries, though they are generally agreed to be: Strand to the north, Lancaster Place to the east, Victoria Embankment to the south and Charing Cross station to the west. The small set of streets east of Northumberland Avenue are included here for convenience.Several streets are or were named using the words George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham after the first Duke, 17th century courtier, who acquired York House which formerly stood on this site; his son sold the area to developers on condition that his father and titles were commemorated on the new streets.
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