St James's Club and Hotel
- St James's Club and Hotel
The St James's Club & Hotel is a five star hotelFact|date=March 2007 at 7-8, Park Place, St James’s, London SW1A 1LP.
Facilities
The hotel has fifty-six rooms and twelve suites, many of which have their own terraces, plus a penthouse with a party deck for sixty people.[ Following renovations and reopening in spring of 2008, it will be known as the 'The St James Hotel and Club'.]History
The hotel says at its web site that it "first opened its doors, as a gentlemen’s chamber for the English aristocracy, in 1892."[ [http://www.stjamesclubandhotel.co.uk/ stjamesclubandhotel.co.uk] (accessed 12 January 2008)] At that time the original St James's Club was elsewhere. However, the buildings at 7-8, Park Place, were erected as blocks of flats in 1891-92. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40627&strquery=7,%20Park%20Place#s3 "Survey of London" vols 29-30 (1960)] covering the parish of St James's Westminster, at british-history.ac.uk (accessed 12 January 2008)] ]A club known as the Field Club was at 7, Park Place, in 1889. On 13 May 1889, the police raided the club and found baccarat in progress. Twenty-one persons were arrested, "among whom were three English and several French and Belgian noblemen..." Among those arrested were the Earl of Dudley (later Governor-General of Australia), Lord Lurgan, 'Lord Paulet' (probably a son of the 15th Marquess of Winchester) and Baron Ferraro. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E6DF1030E633A25750C1A9639C94689FD7CF "The New York Times" archive] (accessed 12 January 2008)]
The sporting Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet, died in his chambers at 7, Park Place, 10 October 1894. ["Astley, Sir John Dugdale", in "Dictionary of National Biography"]
By 1960, the flats were being called "Old St James's House", a name apparently without historical support. They were originally planned with forty-four sets of residential chambers, plus service rooms. [London County Council, "Survey of London"] .
There is no connection with the former St James's Club founded in 1857 by Earl Granville and the Marchese d'Azeglio.
Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.stjamesclubandhotel.co.uk/ official web site]
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