The Foreign Office, 1918
Scope and Contents
289x161mm. General view of the Foreign and Military Secretariat, situated on the Esplanade next to WaIter Locke & Co. The three storey building has verandahs on each floor, with square towers at either end of the S. facade. Above the central archway and rising from the second storey is a hexastyle Corinthian portico whose pediment rises above the horizontal line of the roof. The competition to design the elevations was won by Mr. Banks Gwyther, and the building erected in 1901.
(Photographer unknown, probably Johnston and Hoffman).
Dates
- Creation: 1918
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Language of Materials
English
Date information
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Finding aid date
2011-03-03 14:34:10+00:00
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