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The Adam Houses

Address: The Strand, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 6AA | Map It

Category: Neighborhoods/Streets
Location: Soho and Covent Garden

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Fodor's Review:

All that remains of what was once a regal riverfront row of houses on a 3-acre site, connected by arches and streets below grade, are a few of the structures, but such is their quality that they are worth a detour off the Strand to see. The work of 18th-century Scottish architects and interior designers (John, Robert, James, and William Adam, known collectively as the Adam brothers), the original development was damaged in the 19th century during the building of the embankment, and mostly demolished in 1936 to be replaced by an art deco tower. The original houses still standing are protected, and give a glimpse of their former grandeur. Nos. 1-4 Robert Street and Nos. 7 and 10 Adam Street are the best. At the Royal Society of Arts (8 John Adam St. 020/7930-5115. www.thersa.org. Free. 1st Sun. of month, 10-1), you can see a suite of Adam rooms; no reservations are required.