2-699-300 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Whitehall Yard', (1881). Goose-Pie House and Whitehall Yard in Westminster, London, from the street opposite Horse Guards. Goose-Pie House, a small English Baroque house designed by architect and dramatist John Vanbrugh in 1701, was built reusing brick and stone from the ruined Palace of Whitehall. Vanbrugh died in the house in 1726, and it was demolished in 1898. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]