The Hotel Russell is a four star hotel, located on Russell Square

Russell Square

Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It is near the University of London's main buildings and the British Museum. To the north is Woburn Place and to the south-east is Southampton Row...

, Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury

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, London

London

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, owned and operated by the Principal Hayley Group

Principal Hayley Group

Principal Hayley Group is a Harrogate, North Yorkshire based hotel and conference venue operator.Formed from a management buyout of a basic 6 hotel group in 2006, backed by Private Equity firm Permira, the company presently operates 25 locations, mainly in the UK...

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The Hotel Russell was built in 1898 by the architect

Architect

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, Charles Fitzroy Doll

Charles Fitzroy Doll

Charles Fitzroy Doll J.P., FRIBA , was an English architect of the Victorian and Edwardian eras who specialised in designing hotels. He also designed the dining room on the RMS Titanic, which was based on his design for that in the Hotel Russell in Bloomsbury.Doll was educated in Germany, and on...

. It is distinctively clad in decorative thé-au-lait ("tea with milk") terracotta, and was based on the Château de Madrid

Château de Madrid

The Château de Madrid was a Renaissance building in France. It was built in Neuilly, on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, in the early 16th century, but fell into disuse in the 17th and 18th centuries and was almost completely demolished in the 1790s.The construction of the château was...

 on the Bois de Boulogne

Bois de Boulogne

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 in Paris. The hotel's restaurant, which is named after the architect, is said to be almost identical to the RMS Titanic's dining room which he also designed.

The life-size statues of four British

United Kingdom

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 Queens above the main entrance were the work of sculptor

Sculpture

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 Henry Charles Fehr

Henry Charles Fehr

Henry Charles Fehr FRBS was a British monumental and architectural sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

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External links

• Hotel Russell Official Website http://www.principal-hayley.com/hotelrussell