History In 1859, the architects Thomas Stent and Augustus Laver designed the East Block in Gothic Revival-style. They added a wing in 1910 to meet the needs for more government office space. The new ...

Suites are even more lavish: a Gothic day bed, a velvet-hung four-poster, silk toile wallpaper, a silver chariot bath. e two oval-shaped dining rooms become a candlelit Gothic fantasy at night, and ...

Over the next few centuries, they built prolifically, taking inspiration from gothic, baroque, romantic, classical and neoclassical styles.