- Great Portland Street
Great Portland Street is a street in the West End of
London . LinkingOxford Street withAlbany Street and the busy A501Marylebone Road andEuston Road , the road forms the boundary betweenFitzrovia to the east andMarylebone to the west. In administrative terms it is in theCity of Westminster . Like the better knownPortland Place which runs parallel with it to the west, Great Portland Street was developed by theDukes of Portland , who owned most of the eastern half of Marylebone in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is now a mixed use street with buildings of mainly five to eight storeys. There are some offices and a number of blocks of mansion flats. Some of the buildings belong toGreat Portland Estates .BBC Radio 1 headquarters is also situated on Great Portland Street inYalding House .The road is served at the northern end by Great Portland Street station and at the southern end by Oxford Circus.
A book includes Great Portland Street as one of "London's 50 Outstanding Classical Music Landmarks" because
Felix Mendelssohn lodged at #103 during the premiere ofFingal's Cave , andCarl Maria von Weber died there. [cite book|title=London's 50 Outstanding Classical Music Landmarks|first=Graham|last=Vickers|year=2001|publisher=Omnibus Press|id=ISBN 0-7119-8676-2 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0711986762&id=JacmVw59c7wC&pg=PA68-IA13&lpg=PA68-IA13&sig=mA91cHw5mOyGvpL7Cvk9i_Y6wVE p. 68] ]References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.