Oscar Wilde's house at 34 Tite Street, now commemorated with a blue plaque. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event

Tite Street is a street in Chelsea, London, England, just north of the River Thames. Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. It was created in 1877, giving access to the Chelsea Embankment. Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Chelsea Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, a road and Walkway along the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England The street has been a favoured and fashionable location for people of an artistic and literary disposition in the past.

Tite Street is named after the architect William Tite. Sir William Tite, CB (February 1798 &ndash 20 April 1873) was an English Architect who served as President of the Royal Institute He was a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, responsible for the construction of Chelsea Embankment to the south of Tite Street and some railwaystation-buildings. The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW was the principal instrument of London -wide government from 1855 until the establishment of the London County Council in 1889

During the 18th century, Gough House stood on the eastern side of the street. It became a school in 1830 and then the Victoria Hospital for Children in 1866. The hospital moved to St George's Hospital, at Tooting in south London, and the original building was demolished in 1968. St George's Hospital, founded in 1733, is a teaching hospital in London, England. Tooting is a suburb in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. The site is now occupied by St Wilfred's convent and home for the elderly. Daughters of the Cross is a religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded in Liège in 1833

River House in Tite Street was designed by the church architect Thomas Garner (1839-1906). Thomas Garner (1839–1906 was one of the leading English Gothic revival church Architects of the Victorian era.

Morrissey, English singer, lived there too - probably at The Smith's Age. Steven Patrick Morrissey (ˈmɒɹɪsiː born May 22, 1959) known primarily as Morrissey, is a British Singer and Lyricist

Famous occupants

The following people have lived in Tite Street:

• No 31 (residence) & 33 (studio):
  • John Singer Sargent, American portrait painter [1]. John Singer Sargent (January 12 1856 &ndash April 14 1925 was the most successful portrait painter of his era During his career he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than
• No 33:
  • James McNeill Whistler, artist [2].
  • Augustus John, artist [3] — intermittently between 1940 and 1958. Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 &ndash 31 October 1961 was a Welsh painter draughtsman, and Etcher.
• No 34:
  • Oscar Wilde, writer [4] — now with a blue plaque. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event
  • Frank Miles, portrait painter
• No 35:
  • Whistler instructed E. W. Goodwin to build the White House here, but due to his bankuptcy after his legal case with John Ruskin, he was never able to occupy it; the building was demolished in 1968. George Francis Miles (1852–1891 was a London artist who specialised in Pastel portraits of society ladies Edward William Godwin ( Bristol, May 26, 1833 – October 6, 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer who began John Ruskin (8 February 1819 &ndash 20 January 1900 is best known for his work as an Art critic, sage writer, and Social critic, but is remembered

External links

• Chelsea Walk — Tite Street
• View of the western side of Tite Street in 1905
• LondonTown information
• No 31 Tite Street by Max Beerbohm