Gower Street (London)
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Gower Street is a street in Bloomsbury, central London, England, running between Euston Road to the north and Montague Place to the south. It continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road and Bloomsbury Street south of Montague Place.
University College London (UCL) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art are located along Gower Street as is part of University College Hospital. UCL maintains two student residences along the street: the Arthur Tattersall and John Tovell Houses. Of the many UCL buildings along Gower Street, the Cruciform Building is often the most renowned besides the main campus and its senate building, for its striking red exterior and obvious form when viewed aerially.
Euston Square tube station is located at the north end of Gower Street, at the corner of Euston Road.
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Notable residents of Gower Street have included the architect George Dance the Younger, the naturalist Charles Darwin, and the Shaws. John Shaw Sr. and John Shaw Jr. formed a famous 19th century architectural partnership. Thomas Budd Shaw was a professor of English literature to the grand dukes of Russia. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in the Millais family house on Gower Street in the winter of 1848–1849.
The French poet Henri Michaux briefly resided in Gower Street in February 1931.
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