The New International Encyclopædia/Burlington House

BURLINGTON HOUSE. An old mansion in Piccadilly, London, between Old Bond and Sackville streets, built for Richard, Lord Burlington, in 1695-1743. It was a meeting-place of Eighteenth-Century notables, and is still a literary and scientific centre. It was purchased by the British Government in 1854. On part of the old garden stands the new Burlington House, finished in 1872, the home of the Royal, Geological, and Antiquarian Societies, and other learned bodies.