[3] Physicist Leo Szilard was staying at the Imperial Hotel when he conceived of the atomic bomb.

[8] The building was equally colossal as its neighbour the Kimpton Fitzroy London Hotel and the architectural style was a mixture of Art Nouveau Tudor and Art Nouveau Gothic, combining terra-cotta ornaments in which the corbels, gargoyles and statues were modelled with red brick.

Both Winter garden and Turkish baths were decorated in glazed Doulton ware.

[2][10] It was demolished because of its lack of bathrooms and because, according to the Greater London Council, the whole frame of the building was structurally unsound.

[11] All that remains of the building are 21 statues from the Turkish baths, bells and a galleon, now placed in the courtyard of the current hotel.