Exploring India House Downtown 1 Hanover Square; Architect unknown, 1853 British Memorial Garden in Hanover Square India House The handsome brownstone building facing Hanover Square, built in 1853, originally housed the Hanover Bank—making this one of the very few bank buildings surviving from pre-Civil War . Like many banks, it was inspired by Italian Renaissance palaces—often built themselves for powerful Renaissance Italian banking families. The building’s varied history includes service as New York’s Cotton Exchange and the offices of W.R. Grace and Company. Since 1914, it has been home to India House, a private club founded by shipping executive

James A. Farrell and newspaper- Museum of the City of New York, The J. Clarence Davies Collection man Willard Straight. The club’s Above: India House early members —businessmen Hanover Square engaged in foreign trade—chose Hanover Square’s history as a public space dates the name “India House” to suggest back to the first years of the Dutch settlement. the romance of exotic ports. Named later for the British monarchy—the Hanoverians being the family of King George the Third, as well as the ancestors of the current Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles—Hanover Square is one of the very few such royal place names in New York not dropped after the Revolution.

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Y A E T T Closed S T L P R S S A outline map of British counties. Yew trees trimmed T The British Memorial Garden is under the royal R patronage of His Royal A N A R E E D E H A,C Highness the Prince of Wales, who, with his wife,P Her Royal Highness the L T T ANN STREET O into abstract patterns offer a contemporary take A Duchess of Cornwall,G visited the GardenB on November 1, 2005, and laid the E W EK W center stone for the garden’s pavement.MA Carved into the stone is the FULTON STREET N on the traditional British topiary. The garden honors E heraldic emblem of three feathers with the motto, “Ich Dien” (“I serve”) – 4,5 J,M,Z 2,3 S S F R

H a symbol of the Prince of UWales since the 14th century. E the memory of the 67 British victims of the World T C L LD TRADE D T WOR DEY T Y O TE U From left to right: Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, His Royal CENTER SI R N S F WORLD D F Center attacks, while also offering a place for the Highness the Prince of Wales,I and British Memorial Garden president FINANCIAL T 1,9 Temporarily SOUTH JOH L closed pending site N S T CENTER R TREE C reconstruction CamillaT G. Hellman. E STREET T Pier 17 E British community to gather for special events. R E T

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