The Drawing Room, Soho House

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Date:1927

Description:This view of Soho House, the former home of Matthew Boulton was taken when the house was in use as a hotel. What had been Boulton's Drawing Room was used as the hotel dining room.

The chimneypiece visible in this photograph is the original and matches a drawing in the Boulton and Watt archive. Some time after this photograph was taken it was removed. Fragments were found in the garden in the 1950s and a replica was made as part of the restoration of Soho House before it opened as a museum.

The arched alcove was added by the Reverend Boyle when he rented the house in the 1860s so was removed during the restoration.


Timeline

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1800s
Receipt for cleaning boot tops
Receipt for cleaning boot tops

Memorandum of a receipt (recipe) for cleaning boot tops. The note is adressed to ...

1820s
Terms for Footmen, Soho House
Terms for Footmen, Soho House

This memorandum sets out the wages and liveries for Footmen at Soho House. Soho ...

1850s
Inventory, Soho House, 21st November 1850, page 1
Inventory, Soho House, 21st November 1850, page 1

By 1850 Soho House was owned by Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, the grandson of the ...

1910s
Article on Soho House by Arthur T Bolton, page 1
Article on Soho House by Arthur T Bolton, page 1

This article on Soho House by Arthur T Bolton was published in Country Life on 6th ...

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Image courtesy of: Birmingham Archives

Donor ref:MS3782/12/111 (20/5945)

Source: Birmingham Archives

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