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Queen's House

British  

noun

  1. a Palladian mansion in Greenwich, London: designed (1616–35) by Inigo Jones; now part of the National Maritime Museum; restored 1984–90

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The picture will go on show at the Queen's House in Greenwich, near the site of Elizabeth's birth, in October.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2016

The painting will be the centrepiece for the reopening of the Queen's House on 11 October.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2016

Everything in this frame has a certain connotation, from the architectural importance of Queen's House in the centre, to the imperial significance of the Cutty Sark tea clipper in the distance; further away, Canary Wharf symbolises the changing economic fortunes of the city.

From The Guardian Mar. 20, 2013

There the backdrop is older still: the Queen's House of 1617-37 by Renaissance master architect Inigo Jones.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2012

Lord Stanmore, and then Governor of Ceylon—have a peculiar interest from their exact criticism of a point of detail with which the writer was personally acquainted at first hand:— Queen's House, Colombo, June 18th.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton

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