12/13/2023 0 Comments Grosvenor house hotel![]() In 1806, Lord Grosvenor then bought the property, and a couple of years later, it was renamed Grosvenor House, and remained the family home for around 100 years. ![]() ![]() The first large detached house to be built on the site belonged to Lord Chetwynd, and subsequently passed through several owners, becoming Gloucester House after the Duke of Gloucester acquired it in the 1760s. Rewind another 200 years to the 1730s, and the land that the hotel stands on today was a meadow once owned by the Grosvenor family (the Head was named the Duke of Westminster by Queen Victoria in 1874). It’s hard to imagine that there we no luxury five-star hotels gracing the pavements of one of Mayfair’s most iconic streets before 1929, until Grosvenor House came to be. ![]() Online Editor, Simon Wittenberg, enjoys the 90th-anniversary celebrations and a Saturday night stay at the first ever five-star hotel to open on London’s famed Park Lane. ![]()
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