Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London: Plan of the First-floor Parlor (Northeast Corner Room) 1732-35 Isaac Ware British This is one of eight drawings in the album that relate to Treasury House. In 1732 George II offered Sir Robert Walpole, the First Lord of the Treasury two adjacent properties to serve as a London residence. These included a sixteenth-century mansion facing St. James's Park and townhouse behind it fronting onto Downing Street, the latter designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the seventeenth-century. The location next to Whitehall Palace and within walking distance of Parliament suited the busy first minister and Walpole accepted the gift on the condition that the residence pass to subsequent holders of his office, rather than to his heirs. After an adjacent cottage was vacated and torn down, William Kent gutted the interiors and united the structures, creating a new complex of sixty rooms. Walpole and his wife took up residence in 1735 and remained until 1742 (addit

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Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London: Plan of the First-floor Parlor (Northeast Corner Room) 1732-35 Isaac Ware British This is one of eight drawings in the album that relate to Treasury House. In 1732 George II offered Sir Robert Walpole, the First Lord of the Treasury two adjacent properties to serve as a London residence. These included a sixteenth-century mansion facing St. James's Park and townhouse behind it fronting onto Downing Street, the latter designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the seventeenth-century. The location next to Whitehall Palace and within walking distance of Parliament suited the busy first minister and Walpole accepted the gift on the condition that the residence pass to subsequent holders of his office, rather than to his heirs. After an adjacent cottage was vacated and torn down, William Kent gutted the interiors and united the structures, creating a new complex of sixty rooms. Walpole and his wife took up residence in 1735 and remained until 1742 (addit

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