Offices of the Crown Insurance Company, in Fleet Street
T. N. Deane, architect
Piper and Wheeler, builders
1866
“Mr. Deane’s aim has to be to use hard, durable material, and with that view he has selected such stones as willstand the cLondon climate. . . . Sicilian marble, Forest of Dean, red Mansfield, Aberdeen granite, blue Warwickshire, and Portland stone”
Source: Illustrated London News
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