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Grosvenor Square

Grosvenor Square (/ˈɡroʊvənər/ GROH-vən-ər) is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor". It was developed for fashionable residences in the 18th century. In the 20th it had an American and Canadian diplomatic presence, and currently is mixed use, commercial.

For the former US embassy sometimes known as "Grosvenor Square", see Embassy of the United States in London. For the square of the same name in Dublin, see Grosvenor Square, Dublin.

No. 1 – , formerly part of the High Commission of Canada,[22] being redeveloped into high-end residences[19]

Macdonald House

No. 4 – Back entrance to the

Embassy of Italy

No. 10 – London Grosvenor Square

Marriott Hotel

No. 20 – Former building, being converted into upscale apartments[19][23]

United States Navy

No. 24 – -designed former location of the Embassy of the United States,[24] being redeveloped by Rosewood Hotels into a luxury hotel designed by David Chipperfield[19][25][26]

Eero Saarinen

No. 38 – Former ,[27] converted by Venue Lab into an event space[28]

Embassy of Indonesia

No. 44 – hotel, formerly the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair

The Biltmore Mayfair

No. 47 - Former residence of , during her first marriage to the Earl of Dartmouth.[29]

Raine, Countess Spencer

Most of the buildings on Grosvenor Square are in the Georgian style of architecture.

's lyrics for the Grateful Dead song Scarlet Begonias begin with the line "As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square".

Robert Hunter

It appears in the title of several novels including The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by (1907), The Grosvenor Square Goodbye by Francis Clifford (1978), and The House in Grosvenor Square by Linore Rose Burkard (2009).

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture

In by Charles Dickens, the Barnacles are said to live at "number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square" which "was not absolutely Grosvenor Square itself but it was very near it".

Little Dorrit

In the 1960 thriller Midnight Lace, Doris Day is terrorized in Grosvenor Square as she leaves the U.S. Embassy at 1 Grosvenor Square during a London "pea-soup" fog. As she crosses the square to her residence, an unseen voice near the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt threatens to kill her before the month is out.

Universal Pictures

In the opening act in the play by Oscar Wilde, the first scene is in "the octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square".

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

Alfred Sutro's one-act play (1904) portrays a ball in "the Conservatory of No. 300 Grosvenor Square".

A Marriage Has Been Arranged

Caroline Bingley makes a comment regarding the local dance in "We are a long way from Grosvenor Square, are we not, Mr Darcy".

Pride and Prejudice

It is used as a reference to the 's London office in the BBC spy drama Spooks.

CIA

In Julia Quinn's novel The Duke & I – also published under the title Bridgerton – Grosvenor Square is the main setting for both the Bridgertons' and the Featheringtons' London homes. It is also featured in the Netflix series Bridgerton.

sings the line "don't you think you could have taken Grandad and his medals And played a different game in Grosvenor Square" in his 1971 anti-war song One Man Rock and Roll Band.

Roy Harper

The Savoyard in Grosvenor Square. is one of Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Scenes in London in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836. In it a travelling orphan boy (the Savoyard) sings for his bread, only to be ignored by the wealthy gentry. He takes comfort at the sight of an orange tree, a reminder of nature and home.[30]

Protests of 1968

List of eponymous roads in London

Grosvenor Square, Dublin

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Grosvenor Square

– the subsequent pages cover the past and present buildings in great detail.

Introductory page from the Survey of London

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