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Dorchester House
Dorchester House was a mansion in Park Lane, London, built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel.
==Overview==
Lewis Vulliamy who was a notable architect of that time was instructed to build a house in which a central staircase was a major feature.〔Balfour 1883, p. 398.〕 The main purpose of the building was to house the extensive collection of paintings that Holford had acquired over many years and at that time were temporarily lodged in a friend's residence in Russell Square.〔Chancellor 1908, p. 251.〕 Vulliamy's assistant in this project was Jacob Wrey Mould. The 19th century architecture critic Clarence Cook attributes the grand staircase specifically to Mould, who undertook that task while Vulliamy was incapacitated.〔Cook, C. 1869. ''A Description of the New York Central Park''. New York: Huntington. pp. 50–51.〕 Mould subsequently went on to work with Calvert Vaux on many of the initial buildings and design details of New York's Central Park, very notably, Bethesda Terrace.〔
A description of the house was provided by a publication of that time.
:"(''the staircase) occupies the centre of the house and is lighted from above, and from the gallery round it open that remarkable range of apartments – the Saloon, the Green Drawing Room, the Red Drawing Room, and the State Drawing Room – in which the ceilings and other decorations are from the hands of Italian artists and the beautiful chimney-pieces are by Alfred Stevens, and probably represent the finest work that great artist ever achieved. In these rooms hang some of the notable pictures of the great masters, Titian and Tintoretto, Velasquet and Vandyck and Murillo, Rembrandt and Claude and Cuypt and Ruysdael''."〔Chancellor 1908, p. 252.〕
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