MANSIONS TO SHOPS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 5

MANSIONS TO SHOPS

TWO FAMOUS BUILDINGS.

LONDON RESIDENTIAL AREA.

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 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 ot 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 cansion consisting of three or four houses made into one. The Duke and Duchess of Yc- 1 - took it as a winter' residence in 1925. It was their first town house. It is expected that it will be pulled down and offices and shops built.