Grosvenor Square

Grosvenor Square is a large square in the Mayfair district with a large garden. A monument dedicated to 67 British victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 can be seen here since 2003. The poem by Henry van Dyke appears on the plaque under the memorial stone. At the square there are, among others US and Indonesia embassies.
Grosvenor Square was a traditional place of official American presence in London since John Adams established the first American mission at St. James's in 1785. Adams lived in a house that is still on the corner of Brook and Duke Streets.

Writer Oscar Wilde also lived at Grosvenor Square. References to the square can be found in four of his books, incl. in "Portrait of Dorian Gray" and "Let's be serious." The square also appears in "Little Dorit" by Charles Dickens and "Duma and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.