The Lanesborough
The Lanesborough is a 5-star hotel on Hyde Park Corner. Operated by the Oetker Collection, the hotel is reputedly the most expensive hotel in London.
St. George's Hospital was opened in the original Lanesborough House in 1733. By the 1800s the hospital was falling into disrepair. Lanesborough House was demolished to make way for a new 350-bed facility. Building began in 1827 under architect William Wilkins. The new hospital was operational by 1844, serving continuously as a hospital until transferred to Tooting, south London in the 1970s, leaving the Hyde Park Corner premises vacant in 1980. The Duke of Westminster took up an option to buy the building for £6,000 (its value in the nineteenth century).
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts refurbished and re-opened the building as a hotel in 1991. Furniture was supplied by Arthur Brett and Sons. Ten years later the management contract passed to Starwood's St. Regis operation as its first and only hotel in England. The hotel left Starwood in November 2014 and is currently managed by the Oetker Collection.
Coordinates: 51°30'08.73"N 0°09'09.24"W
Image: By David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8723723
