Lansdowne House
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Lansdowne House, now 9 Fitzmaurice Place, is the remaining part of an aristocratic English town house to the south of Berkeley Square in the city of Westminster, England.
The house before its eastern front rooms were demolished
The room now in Philadelphia, before 1915
View in 1820
Entrance view
Harry Gordon Selfridge
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Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of the wealthiest and most
Lansdowne House
…Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor of Cliveden House, widely believed to be the richest man in America at the time of his tenancy (1891–1893), and also by Harry Gordon Selfridge in the 1920s. In 1929, two years after the death of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, a prominent government frontbencher, his heir sold the property. The…
Selfridge c. 1910
Selfridge circa 1880
Original Oxford Street store in London
Rose Selfridge, circa 1910