C. J. Phipps
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Charles John Phipps was an English architect known for more than forty theatres he designed in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Phipps, c. 1890
Theatre Royal, Bath, 1863 (2016 photograph)
Phipps's Her Majesty's Theatre (1897)
Carlton Hotel, London
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The Carlton Hotel was a luxury hotel in London that operated from 1899 to 1940. It was designed by the architect C. J. Phipps as part of a larger development that included the rebuilding of His Majest
C. J. Phipps
…as well as his home. He designed some non-theatrical buildings, including a substantial reconstruction of the Devonshire Club in St James's, the new Carlton Hotel in the Haymarket, the 100-room Lyric Club near Leicester Square, flats in Shaftesbury Avenue, business premises in the Strand, Ludgate Hill and Moorgate…
The Carlton, 1905
C. J. Phipps's drawings for the new hotel. The adjacent His Majesty's Theatre is shown in outline on the right.
The Palm Court of the Carlton, 1899, captioned in The Illustrated London News as "A Fashionable Resort of Today"
Badge of The Carlton, 1903