View of 1-6 Stanhope Gate, Mayfair (formerly Great Stanhope Street). The five-storey office building of the General Electric Company (GEC) is visible at numbers 1-2, on a site previously damaged by bombing in World War II. Founded in 1886, GEC sold its business and name to Ericssons in 2005. This building has been demolished and replaced with a modern apartment block. The two apartment blocks at numbers 3-4 were built on a site totally destroyed by bombing in World War II. These buildings remain. At number 5, a four-storey house with basement, mansard roof and dormer, built in 1760, and Grade II listed, entry 1236581. This house bears a London County Council blue plaque to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855); the Commander of the British troops in 1854 during the Crimean War. At number 6, a four-storey house with basement, mansard roof and dormer windows, built in 1760, and Grade II listed, entry 1264513. Number 45 Park Lane, at the far end of the street, was designed in the early 1960s by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school and a pioneer of modernist architecture. At one point occupied by Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, it was rebuilt in 2010 and is now the 45 Park Lane Hotel. Many cars are parked in the street.