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Chesterfield House, Westminster
Chesterfield House was a grand London townhouse built between 1747-52 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), statesman and man of letters. The exterior was in the Palladian style, the interior Baroque. It was demolished in 1937 and on its site now stands an eponymous block of flats. It stood in Mayfair on the north side of Curzon Street, between South Audley Street and what is now Chesterfield Street.
The French travel-writer Pierre-Jean Grosley in his 1770 book ''Londres'' (translated as ''Tour to London'') considered the house to be equal to the hotels of the nobility in Paris.
==History==
It was built on land belonging to Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe 〔Error in source Edward Walford, who states (p.353) ground purchased from "Curzon, Earl Howe", an anachronism. It is assumed he meant Richard Howe〕 by Isaac Ware. In his “'Letters to his Son” Chesterfield wrote from “Hotel Chesterfield” on 31 March 1749: “I have yet finished nothing but my ''boudoir'' and my library; the former is the gayest and most cheerful room in England; the latter the best. My garden is now turfed, planted and sown, and will in two months more make a scene of verdure and flowers not common in London. ”
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