Inscription
London County Council
Samuel Morse, 1791 - 1872, American painter, and inventor of the Morse Code, lived here, 1812 - 1815.
Site: Samuel Morse (1 memorial)
W1, Cleveland Street, 141
has done a deep dive into the history of this building and its neighbours. Photos there from 1968 and 1972 show that the door to the right of the plaque was originally a window and that the plaque was already in place. There is also a quote, referring to Morse: “[H]e shared lodgings here with C R Leslie, when both were budding artists taking lessons from Benjamin West in Newman Street.”
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