MANSIONS TO SHOPS
TWO FAMOUS BUILDINGS LONDON RESIDENTIAL AREA Two famous London mansions are ‘
likely to give wny to conyncrcinl establishmonts in Curxon street, which not so many years ago was one of the most exclusive residential streets in the city. A big dressmaking establishment was recently negotiating for the occupation of Sunderland House, a gift, at a cost of £600,000. from the late W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, to his daughter Consuelo, when she married the Duke of Marlborough. The magnificent salons, some entirely of marble, will bo used as showroms. The price mentioned is about £150.000. Cur/on House, the town house of Lord Howe, from whose family name Cur/on street takes its name, is also for sale. It is a rambling mansion, consisting of three or four houses made into one. The Duke and Duchess of York took it as a winter residence in 1025. It was their first town house. It is expected that it will be pulled down and offices and shops built.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 4
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