Grosvenor House and Garden

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Grosvenor house was a large house situated on Londons Park Lane in the district of Mayfair. The house was the home of the Grosvenor family - better known as the Dukes of Westminster for more than a century. The house was in their possession until the First World War as the government requested it for their use. The site is know the home to the Grosvenor House Hotel.

It is said that the house housed one of the best private art collections in the world with paintings by Gainsborough, Velaquez and other old masters. Many of these were sold but some remain in the other Grosvenor family home - Eaton Hall in Cheshire .