3-003-738 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Antelope House in the gardens of the Zoological Society, Regent's Park, [London], 1861. The antelope-house...was built by Messrs Lucas...from the designs of Anthony Salvin, Esq., jun., at a cost of about £2500, The building...measures 175 ft. in length, by 22 ft. in width, and is divided into fifteen commodious stalls, each of them communicating by sliding doors with those adjoining and with an open court in front...Ample means of ventilation have been secured by the dormer windows placed over each stall, and by ventilators fixed in the roof; and the whole edifice may be fairly said to be not only the most commodious and suitable building for animals as yet erected in the society's gardens, but also by no means deficient in architectural merits. A collection of animals received a short time ago from the Cape of Good Hope, presented to the society by his Excellency Sir George Grey, the Governor of the colony...contains several remarkable additions to the beautiful family of antelopes, to the accommodation of which this building is proposed to be exclusively devoted'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.