2-699-309 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'York House in 1795', (1881). York House in Whitehall, London, was designed by James Paine and built between 1755 and 1758. It was refurbished by Henry Holland for Prince Frederick, Duke of York, who lived there from 1788 to 1792. The building was later the headquarters of the Scotland Office, and has also been known as Melbourne House, and more recently Dover House. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]