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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court Palace, Chiswick House, Down House, Boston Manor, Handel House Museum, Banqueting House, Whitehall, Pitzhanger Manor, Kew Palace, Gunnersbury Park, Kensington Palace, Keats House, Apsley House, Eltham Palace, Syon House, Osterley Park, Sir John Soane's Museum, Freud Museum, Forty Hall, Kenwood House, Fulham Palace, Sutton House, London, Mansion House, London, Hall Place, Wesley's Chapel, Eastbury Manor House, Clarence House, Charles Dickens Museum, Red House, Carlyle's House, 2 Willow Road, Danson House, Marble Hill House, Spencer House, London, Hogarth's House, Benjamin Franklin House, Fenton House, Ham House, Southside House, Valentines Mansion, Prince Henry's Room, Linley Sambourne House, Dr. Johnson's House, Rainham Hall. Excerpt: Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow in England. Set in 65 acres (0.26 km), the house was completed in 1729 during the reign of George II and designed by Lord Burlington. William Kent (1685-1748), who took a leading role in designing the gardens, created one of the earliest examples of the English landscape garden on the property. The villa is arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London. After the death of its builder and original occupant in 1753, and the subsequent deaths of his last surviving daughter Charlotte Boyle in 1754 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to the Cavendish family and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the husband of Charlotte. After William's death in 1764, the villa passed to his and Charlotte's orphaned young son, William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire. Although it was not used as his main residence, his wife Georgiana Spencer, a prominent but controversial figure in fashion and politics whom he married in 1774, used ...
