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# The Adelphi: Where London's Creative Genius Converged Standing on this spot in Westminster, you're treading where the Adelphi Terrace once rose as a monument to neoclassical ambition—a riverside development so architecturally revolutionary that Robert Adam's design between 1768 and 1774 redefined...

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The Adelphi, Westminster, WC2

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This building stands on the site of Adelphi Terrace built by the brothers Adam in 1768-1774. Among the occupants of the Terrace were Topham and Lady Diana Beauclerk, David Garrick, Richard Doyle Carte, Thomas Hardy & George Bernard Shaw, The London School of Economics and Political Science and the Savage Club also had their premises here.