34-579: Gower Street may refer to: Gower Street, London Gower Street (Los Angeles) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about roads and streets with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gower_Street&oldid=650992718 " Category : Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
68-454: A new plaque. The long thin garden which backed onto Gower Mews North (later Malet Place) was incorporated into Foster Court car park in 1978. The etymologist and philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood , who was Charles Darwin's cousin and brother-in-law, lived at 94 Gower Street; he died there in 1891. From 1869 to 1892, 102 Gower Street was the home of the barrister William Belt who was best known for his erratic behaviour in later life which
102-505: A number of years he was the last survivor of the 40 original Royal Academicians . Dance's years after 1798 were devoted to art rather than architecture. His Academy contributions consisted of highly finished pencil profile portraits of his friends in Regency London's artistic establishment. 72 etchings were engraved after them by William Daniell and A Collection of Portraits were published over ten years from 1804. Many are now held by
136-839: A school there. The building was later re-numbered 147 Gower Street; the site was occupied from 2005 by the Accident and Emergency department of University College Hospital . The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in the Millais family house on Gower Street in the winter of 1848–49. Millicent Fawcett , a leading figure in the constitutional wing of the British women's suffrage movement, lived at No. 2 Gower Street (and died there in 1929). The Walloon ( Belgian ) poet Henri Michaux briefly resided in Gower Street in February 1931. From 1976 until 1995
170-622: A short stay in Florence , where he was joined by his brother Nathaniel , who was already studying painting in Italy, he and his brother set off for Rome, arriving in early May 1759. By the early 1760s the brothers were living at 77 Strada Felice. At Rome, Dance was acquainted with the architect James Adam who was staying nearby at the Casa Guarini , Robert Mylne (they remained lifelong friends), Abbot Peter Grant and Giovanni Battista Piranesi . As
204-649: A student of the Accademia di San Luca , Dance measured and drew several buildings in Rome, including the three remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux , the Arch of Constantine and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica , showing much promise as a draughtsman. Much of his later work was inspired by Piranesi. In late 1759 Dance received his first commission – to design two chimneypieces for Sir Robert Mainwaring. In early 1762 Dance
238-600: Is a commemorative plaque in his honour. George Dance the Younger George Dance the Younger RA (1 April 1741 – 14 January 1825) was an English architect and surveyor as well as a portraitist . The fifth and youngest son of the architect George Dance the Elder , he came from a family of architects, artists and dramatists. He was described by Sir John Summerson as "among the few really outstanding architects of
272-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gower Street, London Gower Street is a two-way street in Bloomsbury , central London , running from Euston Road at the north to Montague Place in the south. The street continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road, while to the south it becomes Bloomsbury Street. University College London (UCL) and
306-425: Is instantly recognisable by the adjacent Speedy's cafe and sandwich shop which is also shown in most external shots in the series. The blue plaque for former resident Giuseppe Mazzini , clearly visible on Google Street View , is covered by a fake lamp for filming. From 1950 to 1984, physician and civil rights campaigner David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead , worked as a doctor at 200 North Gower Street, where there
340-511: The Bank of England , the Bank Stock Office in 1792. On Dance's recommendation, Robert Smirke joined Soane's office as a pupil in 1796, but when the two fell out after less than a year, Dance continued to champion Robert Smirke who went on to become the country's leading Greek Revival architects. Significantly, some of Dance's later work embraced the increasingly austere Greek Revival style, such as
374-621: The Kent countryside, and the Gower Street house became part of the warehouse system of James Shoolbred and Company . On 13 December 1904 a London County Council blue plaque was put up, to "Charles Darwin Naturalist". The house suffered from bomb damage in 1941 during the Blitz , and was not repaired. In 1961 the site became part of the Biological Sciences building of University College London , with
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#1732852175017408-659: The National Portrait Gallery . Dance married Mary Gurnell (born 7 February 1752 in Pitzhanger Manor ) on 24 March 1772 at St. George's, Bloomsbury . Their first child, Thomas, was born in Autumn 1773 and died in 1813. Two more sons followed: George (1778–1813) and Charles Webb (1785–1844). Mary Dance died at the age of 38 in 1791. Dance suffered from ill health for the last three or four years of his life. He died on 14 January 1825, at No. 91 Gower Street , which
442-650: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) are located along Gower Street as is part of University College Hospital . UCL maintains two student residences along the street: the Arthur Tattersall and John Tovell Houses. Of the many UCL buildings along Gower Street, the Cruciform Building is especially notable, both for its striking red exterior and its obvious form, even when viewed from the road. Old boys of University College School are known as " Old Gowers " after
476-692: The Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall , the library at Lansdowne House , the Common Council Chamber and Chamberlain's Court at the Guildhall , Ashburnham Place , and Stratton Park (demolished save for its Doric portico ). Dance retired from practice in 1815. Dance's long career spanned several of the conventional phases of the Neo-Classical movement, from mid-18th century French Classicism to
510-497: The Rev. William Agutter died here. In March 1837, Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy) moved to 187 North Gower Street (at the time, 9 George Street, and now used for the filming of Sherlock ) together with Italian poet and patriot Giovanni Ruffini , his brother Agostino Ruffini and Angelo Usiglio, living there for three years until 1840. On 29 December 1838, Charles Darwin took
544-490: The Shaws. John Shaw Sr. , and John Shaw Jr. , formed a famous 19th-century architectural partnership. Thomas Budd Shaw was a professor of English literature to the grand dukes of Russia. The painter John Everett Millais had a studio here. North Gower Street was also the birthplace and childhood home of the artist Philip Zec and his 11 other siblings, although that was when it was still called George Street. On 26 March 1835,
578-505: The building starting in June 1765, at a cost of £2,941, and the building was consecrated on 8 September 1767. In 1768, when he was only 27, George succeeded as Architect and Surveyor to the Corporation of London on his father's death. His first major public works were the rebuilding of Newgate Prison in 1770 and building the front of the Guildhall , London. Other London works of his include
612-564: The century", but few of his buildings remain. The architect George Dance the elder married Elizabeth Gould in 1719. Their fifth son, George, was born 1 April 1741 at the family home in Chiswell Street, London and was educated at St Paul's School . Dance spent the six years between 1759 and 1765 studying architecture and draughtsmanship in Rome. Aged 17, he set off on his Grand Tour , sailing from Gravesend, Kent in December 1758. After
646-536: The east side from south to north, up to no. 27, and then on the west side from north to south, from no. 28. Gower Street North was numbered independently, from no. 1 (on the northern corner of Grafton Way and Gower Street) to approx. no. 15 (adjacent to Euston Road). In the 1860s this confusing situation came to an end when all three streets (Gower Street, Upper Gower Street, and Gower Street North) were renumbered in one continuous sequence and called Gower Street. This re-numbering proceeded from south to north on both sides of
680-497: The full blown Greek Revival of the early 19th century. As such, he also played an important role in the careers of several major architects within this continuum, such as Sir John Soane and Sir Robert Smirke . His innovative interiors for the church of All Hallows-on-the-Wall , the Guildhall Common Council Chamber, and the sculpture gallery of Lansdowne House were key to the development of Soane's first work at
714-583: The headquarters of MI5 was an anonymous grey office block at 140 Gower Street , adjacent to Euston Road. Since 2004 the site has been occupied by the western end of the Wellcome Trust 's Gibbs Building. Many of the Georgian houses on Gower Street have been converted into small hotels. North Gower Street, the northern continuation of Gower Street beyond Euston Road, is not accessible from Gower Street at street level for vehicles or pedestrians. For pedestrians,
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#1732852175017748-399: The house "Macaw Cottage" in "allusion to the gaudy colours of the walls and furniture." He moved in on 31 December, and with Emma moved in on the day of their marriage, 29 January 1839. The development of Darwin's theory of natural selection made progress in this house, and their children William Erasmus Darwin and Anne Darwin were born there. In 1842 the family moved to Down House in
782-484: The let of the furnished property at 12 Upper Gower Street (later 110 Gower Street), and wrote to tell his fiancée Emma Wedgwood of his delight at being the "possessor of Macaw Cottage". As their daughter Etty later recalled, "He used to laugh over the ugliness of their house in Gower St, and the furniture in the drawing-room, which he said combined all the colours of the macaw in hideous discord", and Darwin had christened
816-604: The most direct access is via a subway along the concourse of Euston Square station. From Euston Road, North Gower Street continues past Drummond Street and then ends, with a footpath continuing north to connect with the Hampstead Road . It is lined mostly with Georgian terraced houses now mostly converted into hotels and student accommodation or rebuilt, and council housing. The BBC crime drama Sherlock has used 187 North Gower Street, posing as 221B Baker Street , for many external shots of Sherlock Holmes 's flat. The location
850-467: The painter Angelica Kauffman and James Boswell who was visiting Rome. A few weeks later the brothers left Rome to return to London. On his return from the Grand Tour, George (the younger) joined his father 's office. His earliest London project was the rebuilding of All Hallows-on-the-Wall Church. He was one of five architects asked to submit designs, and his design was chosen on 8 May 1765. Work on
884-715: The rebuilding of the Church of St Bartholomew the Less (1793), a former chapel within the precincts of Barts Hospital. At Bath, Somerset he largely designed the Theatre Royal , built by John Palmer in 1804–5. Coleorton Hall was one of his few buildings in the Gothic style. Many of Dance's buildings have been demolished, including the Royal College of Surgeons (apart from the portico), Newgate Prison , St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics ,
918-435: The street where it was founded and co-located with UCL. SOAS, University of London and Birkbeck College are also in proximity. Euston Square Underground station is located at the north end of Gower Street, at the corner of Euston Road. Gower Street is named after Lady Gertrude Leveson-Gower , daughter of John Leveson-Gower , and who in 1737 became the second wife of Bloomsbury landowner Lord John Russell . Gower Street
952-500: The street: the east side now contained even-numbered houses, ending in no. 142 adjacent to Euston Road, and the west side contained odd-numbered houses, from no. 87, adjacent to Francis Street, up to no. 163 adjacent to Euston Road. Notable residents of Gower Street are listed in the Survey of London. They have included the architect George Dance the Younger , painter William De Morgan , and
986-453: The unfluted Doric portico on Stratton Park of 1803, derived from the temples at Paestum , and the unfluted Ionic portico on the Royal College of Surgeons (built 1806 onwards, so representing one of the first Greek Revival porticos in London). With his brother Nathaniel, George Dance was a founder member of the Royal Academy , founded on 10 December 1768. In 1795, with William Tyler , Dance
1020-553: Was appointed to examine the accounts of the Royal Academy following the resignation of Sir William Chambers , and in 1796 they became the Academy's first auditors, helping put the institution on a sounder financial footing. In 1798 Dance succeeded Thomas Sandby as professor of architecture at the Royal Academy, but as he failed to deliver a single lecture he was dismissed in 1805 and replaced by his former pupil, Sir John Soane . For
1054-547: Was in the latest style of neoclassical architecture . During June 1764 the Dance brothers were in Naples , but later that year they were back in Rome, entertaining the actor David Garrick and his wife. On 21 December 1764 George Dance and his brother were elected to the Accademia di S. Luca, where he was described as Giorgo Danze, architetto Inglese . On 16 February 1765 Dance dined with
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1088-506: Was measuring and drawing the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli and later that year he entered a competition organised by the Accademia di Parma to design A Public Gallery for Statues, Pictures & c. . His drawings were dispatched to Parma in April 1763, and a few weeks later it was announced that he had won the gold medal, and his designs were exhibited at the Ducal Palace. The projected building
1122-556: Was originally the name only of the southern part of the street, from the south end northwards to the junctions with Francis Street (on the west side) and Torrington Place (on the east side). The northern part of the street was called Upper Gower Street, except for the western side north of Grafton Way, which was called Gower Street North (not to be confused with North Gower Street, which was on the other side of Euston Road). The sequence of house numbers in Upper Gower Street proceeded on
1156-561: Was widely reported by popular newspapapers for the amusement of their readers. On the wall of the University College building, an elaborate wall plaque carries the legend: "Close to this place Richard Trevithick (Born 1771 - Died 1833) Pioneer of High Pressure Steam ran in the year 1808 the first steam locomotive to draw passengers." It was erected by "The Trevithick Centenary Memorial Committee". In 1823 Charles Dickens (aged 11) lived at 4 Gower Street North when his mother opened
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