DARTMOUTH HOUSE HEADQUARTERS OF ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION

In the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE statement was erroneously made that Dartmouth House, recently acquired by the English Speaking Union, was in Dartmouth, England. The house is located in London on Charles Street, Berkeley Square, in the heart of aristocratic Mayfair.

Lord Dartmouth, whose name the College bears, was the owner of the buildings which occupied the space on which the more modern building now stands. The present Dartmouth House was built in 1890 for Lord Revelstoke, head of the banking-diplomatic family of Baring, which has been long prominent in the commercial and social consolidation of the English speaking races. The house is double-fronted, being built on the site of two former houses. It is most imposing in its oak and walnut panelling and its grand staircase. There is dining room accommodation for one hundred persons on the ground floor with a ball room and music room immediately above, as well as other commodious rooms, including a special room set aside for the Page Memorial Library, in honor of the late Walter Hines Page.