Established MDCCCXCII · Under Royal Warrant
The Register · Book I

The Five Houses

Entered into the register in the year of consecration, in the hand of the Bureau. None has been struck from the register. None presently added.

Le Palais, Paris
Plate I.Paris · 1892
I.

Le Palais

Paris · France

The founding house. Built on the eastern arcade of the Place Vendôme in the reign of Napoléon III and taken into the register in 1892. The Salon des Miroirs, the private courtyard and the fourth-floor Apartement d'Angle are national monuments; the House is their custodian, not their proprietor.

Consecrated
Anno 1892
Register
XXIV apartments
Address
Place Vendôme, Paris I
The Wetherby, London
Plate II.London · 1904
II.

The Wetherby

London · England

An Edwardian town-house of five bays, entered under a stone portico and set behind its own garden square. Guests are received in the library; keys are still cut on the premises. The address is given only in correspondence.

Consecrated
Anno 1904
Register
XXIV apartments
Address
A private square, Mayfair, London W1
Hofburg Residenz, Vienna
Plate III.Vienna · 1911
III.

Hofburg Residenz

Vienna · Austria

The former imperial guest wing of the Hofburg, entrusted to the House by decree of Franz Joseph in 1911 and administered without interruption since. The chandelier of the Grand Salon has hung, unlit and lit, for one hundred and eleven consecutive years.

Consecrated
Anno 1911
Register
XXIV apartments
Address
Innere Stadt, Wien I
Ryōgetsu, Kyoto
Plate IV.Kyoto · 1956
IV.

Ryōgetsu

Kyoto · Japan

A late eighteenth-century merchant estate at the foot of Higashiyama, taken into the register in 1956 and tended by three successive families of custodians. The garden is drawn twice a year, by hand, and any repair must match the drawing.

Consecrated
Anno 1956
Register
XVIII apartments
Address
Higashiyama-ku, Kyōto
Casa del Faro, Havana
Plate V.Havana · 1929
V.

Casa del Faro

Havana · Cuba

A colonial palace on the sea wall, restored between 1962 and 2004, plaster by plaster and shutter by shutter. The library holds the largest private collection of nineteenth-century Cuban maps.

Consecrated
Anno 1929
Register
XXIV apartments
Address
El Malecón, La Habana Vieja
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