Lombard House, London

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Lombard House (originally Sunderland House) is a Grade II listed detached town mansion at the corner of Curzon Street and Trebeck Street in the Mayfair district of London, England. It occupies an entire island block bordered by Curzon Street to the north, Trebeck Street to the east, Shepherds Market to the south, and Hertford Street to the west. The house was built between 1901 and 1904 as a London residence for Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough and his American heiress wife, Consuelo Vanderbilt, whose father, railroad millionaire William Kissam Vanderbilt, funded the purchase of the building site and the construction of the house. In the months following the conclusion of the First World War, Sunderland House was used as the temporary London headquarters of the League of Nations. Used primarily for commercial purposes from the 1930s onwards, the house sustained significant damage during The Blitz, with only the external masonry surviving the war. The building acquired...

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