Douglas House, Westminster

The Douglas House was a US servicemen's club operated by the United States Air Force for twenty-five years at two different locations in London's West End.

The club's purpose was to provide "home-style service" for the thousands of American airmen based in the United Kingdom and US servicemen of all branches who might be passing through.

[3] The second Douglas House, on Lancaster Gate, had 110 low-cost hotel rooms for families as well as singles, a restaurant, nightclub, soda bar, four-chair barber shop, TV lounge, bureau de change, and a newsstand that sold American periodicals.

The building that housed the second club was originally a block of white stuccoed flats or townhouses built in the Victorian era as part of a Bayswater area real estate development.

A blue plaque, attached to the Leinster Terrace end of the building in 1977, commemorates American author Bret Harte, who resided and died at 74 Lancaster Gate in 1902.

Lancaster Gate Hotel (formerly the Douglas House)