Staircase Hall

Staircase hall, British Embassy, 70 Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 1939. The Palais Strousberg, designed by August Orth, dated from 1867-1868. The British government purchased it as an Embassy in 1884. Photographed here before the outbreak of World War II, the building was demolished in 1950. Artist Unknown. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)