Interior of a building in the Strand
Interior of a building in the Strand
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Interior of a building in the Strand
SC_PHL_01_532_75_22734 (Collage 140342)
The London Archives: LCC Photograph Library
Interior view of 409-410 Strand, City of Westminster (north side). The first-floor rear room with intricate decorative plaster mouldings on the ceiling and walls. Decorative leaded windows and modern strip light hangs from the ceiling. Two large mirrors are integrated into the decorative plasterwork on the wall. Built by Spencer Chadwick in 1886–87 as the Adelphi Restaurant for the brothers Agostino and Stefano Gatti, a wealthy Italian-Swiss dynasty who owned a portfolio of London theatres and restaurants, it is next door to the Adelphi Theatre. Within a three-storey building with attic and stone balustrade. Corinthian-design pilasters on the facade of the first and second floor with wrought-iron balconies between, and recessed casement windows. In the early-twentieth century it was the office of the Australian State of Queensland but is now a restaurant and is Grade II listed, number 1237038.
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