Winfield House

146 Park Road, London NW8

Built from 1936, for Barbara Hutton (1912-1979), the grand-daughter of F.W. Woolworth who was dubbed the "poor little rich girl" and famously spent $25 million in one decade. It stood on the site of Hertford Villa which later became known as "St. Dunstan's". During World War I, the New York financier Otto Kahn - the model for "Mr Monopoly" - lent it to a charity for the care of blind servicemen....

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Barbara Woolworth Hutton

Mrs Mdivani, von Reventlow, Grant, Troubetzkoy, Rubirosa, von Cramm, Doan

1912-1979

After St. Dunstan's was destroyed by fire in 1936, Barbara Hutton bought the ruins and commissioned the English architect Leonard Rome Guthrie of Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie, to build her this 35-bedroom home surrounded by 12-acres of gardens - which after those at Buckingham Palace continue to be the second largest private gardens in London. At the end of World War II, Hutton donated the property for a token $1 to the U.S. State Department and since 1955 it has served as the U.S. Ambassador's Residence.