2-979-773 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Seventh Prize Design for the War and Foreign Offices (John Dwyer, Architect): Premium, £100, 1857. Government buildings in Whitehall, London. 'The...Offices have been united so as to form externally one important building...The War Office has five entrances, each communicating with spacious, lofty, and well-lighted corridors; the principal entrance being from Parliament-street...The Official Residence is placed fronting the parade in St. James's Park...Upon the first floor is placed a grand ball-room...with five reception-rooms en suite, with various approaches, the chief approach being through a circular conservatory, surmounted by a glass dome. Two drawing-rooms are reserved for the private use of the family...Mr. Dwyer met with able and important assistance in his labours from Mr. Henry Parsons...architect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.