Near Royal Academy of Arts is located Albany, Palladian style residence built in the early 1800s Henry Holland. Something separates street has always been a quiet house, whose peculiarity is that it was designed exclusively for bachelors. Only in 1878 began to be received and married men, provided they are not accompanied by their wives. This happened only 40 years later (1919). Among those who have lived here include: the poet Lord Byron, the writer Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene and actor Terence Stamp.
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