of 1, Chandos Street, London, W.
1862 Share issue. To construct a hotel on site with 180 feet in depth and 333 feet frontage. Eleven directors listed[1]
1865 'THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE LANGHAM, HOTEL. .... The general arrangements of this splendid hotel may be summed up as consisting of 600 rooms, between 300 and 400 of which are available for the purposes of the hotel. There are 268 bed-rooms on the various floors, .... There are 34 dressing-rooms, and 32 sitting and drawing-rooms, three dining-rooms, 25ft. by 20ft., three private dining-rooms of the same dimensions, 36 baths supplied with hot and cold water, and five lifts, all worked by hydraulic pressure, and on the principle introduced by Messrs. Easton & Amos. Of these one is an ascending room for visitors, fitted up in elegant style, and so arranged that, by a self- working apparatus, it can be elevated and stopped at every floor the visitor may require to alight at. There is a like lift for the servants, two for the general service, and one for luggage. The number of servants already employed on the establishment is 116. The quantity of carpeting required for the various rooms is about 15,000 yards, which would reach some eight or nine miles, and the length of bell wire may also be measured by the mile. The ventilation of the building is of the most perfect character, as, in addition to the quadrangle it its centre, there are two hot-air ventilating shafts running through it from basement to summit. The. most important feature is, that by means of sinking the well some six hundred feet a supply of water has been obtained of the purest description, in volume equal to 25,000 gallons per diem; and this is not only distributed so as to be available on every floor, but is conveyed by the same means as the lifts, &c., are worked, to the tanks constructed in various parts of the roof of the building, which, although erected upon the fire-proof principle, gives a double security to the inmates. The decorations of the interior of the hotel are, as a genera! rule, in excellent taste, and well adapted to give an air of comfort and even elegance to the principal portion of the hotel. The smoking-room. of the hotel is a very handsome apartment. Instead of being, as such rooms usually are, in a back, or in some secluded or underground, unventilated portion of the hotel, it enjoys one of the best and most cheerful localities in the whole building, forming the projecting North-East corner, and looking up Portland Place. .... Morning Post.'<ref>Belfast News-Letter - Friday 16 June 1865</ref
1914 Incorporated as a Limited Company: Directorate: A. Gearing (Chairman), Sir A. C. Lucas, Bart., G. W. Carey, and R. H. Martin, H. B. Robarts (Director and Manager). E. F. Cox, Secretary. This family Hotel to rank as one of the most select and fashionable in London.
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- ↑ Morning Herald (London) - Monday 04 August 1862