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The Montcalm hotels are a group of luxury hotels in central London. The group includes The Montcalm London Marble Arch and The Marble Arch by The Montcalm London, both of which are near Marble Arch, as well as M By Montcalm Shoreditch London Tech City, located in Shoreditch. The Montcalm at The Brewery London City and London City Suites by Montcalm, both of which are located in the City of London, round out the hotel chain. Each of the sites is a five-star hotel. The Montcalm London Marble Arch was acquired by Shaftesbury Hotels in 2008. ==History== The Montcalm London Marble Arch was acquired by Shaftesbury Hotels in 2008 and, following a £38 million refurbishment programme, reopened in September 2010. It was previously owned by Nikko Hotels (part of the JAL Group).〔(【引用サイトリンク】Hotel check: The Montcalm, London )〕 The hotel dates from the early 1970s when Piccadilly Estate Hotels Ltd. built it at 2 Wallenberg Place. It opened in 1973 and was originally called The Montcalm, named after the Marquis de Montcalm, the commander of the French forces defeated by the English in the struggle for possession of Canada in the mid-eighteenth century. The link between this battle and the building is the Canadian province of Quebec, which had already lent its name to the original mews (Quebec Mews) at the rear of the building. However, the site’s history dates back much farther, as suggested by the hotel’s crescent-shaped Georgian façade, which in agreeing to the hotel’s construction, Westminster Council insisted should remain. The façade originally belonged to the building erected as houses at 2 Wallenberg Place on plots leased from the Portman family in 1789. It is likely that each house had four storeys (including an attic storey) over a basement and was three bays wide. All the houses came with stabling in Quebec Mews, accessed from New Quebec Street. During the nineteenth century, exterior alterations were made to the houses, including the conversion to cottages of the buildings in Quebec Mews. Both Wallenberg Place and Quebec Mews are located within Westminster’s Portman Square (designated as a conservation area in 1967). The area, part of the parish of St. Marylebone, was covered with trees and marshland as part of the forest of Middlesex until, in 1532, Sir William Portman leased the 270 acres that surrounded it. In 1554 the freehold was conveyed in perpetuity to Sir William and his heirs and, three years later in 1757, when Marylebone Road was sited to provide a route to the City bypassing the West End, the grid of streets that’s now recognisable as the Portman Estate was laid out. Shortly afterwards in 1764, construction of Portman Square and neighbouring streets began; the development was completed in 1820.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Our History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montcalm hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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