To speak of the Albert Hall Mansions is to speak of the Royal Albert Hall and even of the Albert Memorial. The name of Queen Victoria's beloved Prince Consort, prematurely dead in 1861, links them, as does their proximity to each other. With the two first located on the corner of Kensington Gore and Exhibition Road opposite Hyde Park and the third in the park itself, they share certain characteristics. The Albert Hall Mansions were built in 1870 by Norman Shaw and they have the distinction of being the first apartment houses in London; they also attest to a
