Embassy of People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (London)

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Currently the Algerian Embassy, this building was built by T. Phillips Figgis in 1910 (No. 1), with an additional wing in 1914 (No.3). It was purpose built to house the London Radium Institute, established in 1909 and opened in August 1911. It provided outpatient care based on the methods used by the Curies in Paris. Wealthier patients could enter through the front entrance in Riding House Street with a poor door for the "necessitous" in All Souls Place. In 1938 the Radium Institute was absorbed by the Mount Vernon Hospital, with the building housing the central offices and outpatients’ department for the enlarged organisation. The building was sold following the Second World War and housed the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children before eventually becoming the home of the Algerian embassy.