MANSIONS TO SHOPS.
TWO FAMOUS BUILDINGS. Two famous London mansions are likely to give way to commercial establishments in Curzon 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 £500,000, 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 be used as showrooms. The price mentioned is about £150,000. Curzon House, the town house of Lord Howe, from whose family name Curzon 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 1925. It was their first town bouse. It is expected that it will be pulled down and offices and shops built.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21243, 26 January 1931, Page 12
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