Grosvenor Square Archives

Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys exhibition in Grosvenor Square

April 6 marks the 100th Anniversary of the U.S. entry into WWI. Standing side by side, the U.S. and the UK have fought together in nearly every war since WWI. More than two million American soldiers, or Doughboys as they were known, served in Europe during the war. In commemoration, on April 6 2017 the U.S. Embassy is ... Read More»

By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 28 April, 2017 | Categories: Art & Culture, U.S. & United Kingdom | Tags: Centenary, Doughboys, Grosvenor Square, Michael St. Maur Sheil, WW1

The old American Embassy London Chancery Building

As of January 2018 the U.S. Embassy in London is now located in a new building in Nine Elms . History The United States has been associated with Grosvenor Square in London’s Mayfair since the late eighteenth century when John Adams, the first United States Minister to the Court of St. James’s, lived from 1785 to 1788 in the house ... Read More»

By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 30 January, 2015 | Categories: Featured Event, History, U.S. Embassy London | Tags: Eero Saarinen, gold anodized aluminum, Great Cumberland Place, Grosvenor Square, John Adams, Little America, Mayfair, New Embassy, Theodore Roszak