The Hanover Square Rooms were located on the corner of Hanover Square and established by Sir John Gallini in partnership with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel in 1774.
For a century this was the principal concert venue in London.
The site had previously been occupied by a mill – the previous name was Mill Field – and Mill Street was also named after the mill.
Gallini owned half the freehold and the other two a quarter each. They constructed assembly rooms for concerts and public meetings.
The final concert took place in 1874 and in 1875 the property was sold and became the premises of the Hanover Square Club, which had already been holding committee meetings there. The building was demolished in 1900.
