3-101-141 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

No.73, Cheapside, c1883. Shops in the City of London. 'This house is still known as "The Old Mansion House"...The design is ascribed to Sir Christopher Wren, by an engraving - I have found no other authority - giving an architectural "elevation of the front of No. 73, Cheapside, the residence of Mr Tegg, Bookseller, formerly the Mansion House of London, erected by Sir C. Wren, A.D. 1668-9." Since the date at which this engraving was made (about 1825), the middle window of the second floor has been cut down; there are minor alterations in the upper part, and the shop front has been altered.' Description by Alfred Marks, who explains that prior to the completion of the present Mansion House (in 1753), the chief magistrate of the City did not have an official residence, but kept office at his own home or elsewhere. The house in the photograph was the residence of Sir William Turner, Mayor of London 1668-9. The house and its fine staircase were eventually demolished in 1929. Shop and office signs: 'E.C. Wood - Telescopes - Opera Glasses; Mead & Deverell - Archery, Cricket, Rocking-Horses, Perambulators; Fire-proof iron safes and doors; Orphan Working School - Alexandra Orphanage for Infants - Convalescent Home, Margate; Mr. D. Combe - Dentist - Established 30 Years'.