3-082-873 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dorchester House, Park Lane, the residence of the Shahzada Nasrullah Khan during his stay in London, 1895. 'Dorchester House is one of the finest mansions in London. It was built, with magnificent disregard of cost, by the late Mr. Holford, and is now the property of Captain G. L. Holford, C.I.E., Equerry-in-Waiting to the Prince of Wales. The house and its contents are certainly worth half a million of money. There is accommodation for over one hundred persons, and as the suite of the Shahzada is very large, it would have been impossible to find a more dignified and commodious residence. Sentries have been placed outside Dorchester House, and by other means the public is made aware of the importance of the mansion's royal occupant'. Dorchester House was built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.