Gower Street (London)

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Gower Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, running from Euston Road in the north to Montague Place in the south. (It continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road and Bloomsbury Street south of Montague Place.)

University College London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art are located along Gower Street. UCL maintains two student residences along the street: the Arthur Tattersall and John Tovell Houses. Of the many UCL buildings along Gower Street, the Cruciform Building is often the most renowned besides the main campus and its senate building, for its striking red exterior and obvious form when viewed aerially.

Euston Square tube station is located at the north end of Gower Street, at the corner of Euston Road.

Notable residents of Gower Street have included the architect George Dance the Younger, the naturalist Charles Darwin, and the Shaws. John Shaw Sr. and John Shaw Jr. formed a famous 19th century architectural partnership. Thomas Budd Shaw was a professor of English literature to the grand dukes of Russia.

French poet Henri Michaux briefly resided in Gower Street in February 1931.