million to Richard Caring, who planned to turn it into 41 residential apartments. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council and property developer Finchatton then bought the building for the same amount in April 2013, with planning permission to convert the building into 31 luxury apartments. In September 2013, the Government of Canada announced its intention to sell its High Commission building at 1 Grosvenor Square and "consolidate its diplomatic activity in the UK in a single, central location in Canada House on Trafalgar Square". Notable buildings Most of the buildings on Grosvenor Square are in the Georgian style of architecture. No. 1 – Macdonald House, formerly part of the High Commission of Canada, being redeveloped into high-end residences No. 4 – Back entrance to the Embassy of Italy No. 10 – London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square No. 20 – Former United States Navy building, being converted into upscale apartments No. 24 – Eero Saarinen-designed former location of the Embassy of the United States, being redeveloped by Rosewood Hotels into a luxury hotel designed by David Chipperfield No. 38 – Former Embassy of Indonesia, converted by Venue Lab into an event space No. 44 – The Biltmore Mayfair hotel, formerly the Millennium Hotel London Mayfair In popular culture Robert Hunter's lyrics for the Grateful Dead song Scarlet Begonias begin with the line "As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square". It appears in the title of several novels including The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by Mrs. Henry De La Pasture (1907), The Grosvenor Square Goodbye by Francis Clifford (1978), and The House in Grosvenor Square by Linore Rose Burkard (2009). In Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, the Barnacles are said to live at "number twenty-four, Mews Street, Grosvenor Square" which "was not absolutely Grosvenor Square itself but it was very near it". In the 1960 Universal Pictures thriller Midnight Lace, Doris Day is terrorized in Grosvenor Square as she leaves the U.S. Embassy at 1 Grosvenor Square during a London "pea-soup" fog. As she crosses the square to her residence, an unseen voice near the statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt threatens to kill her before the month is out. In the opening act in the play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, the first scene is in "the octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square". It is mentioned in the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde,