The Bull Hotel, Cambridge
Historic building
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The Bull Hotel was a historic hotel located at 68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England, next to St Catharine's College.[1]
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| Location | 68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England |
| Coordinates | 52.2034°N 0.1174°E |
Completed | 1828 |
The four-storey hotel was built in 1828, and occupies the site of an inn previously known as the Black Bull, which was in existence as early as the fifteenth century.[2] The Black Bull was bequeathed to St Catharine's College in 1626 and rebuilt in 1828 and opened as a hotel.[3] In 1936 two "acanthus'" type posts were said to flank the stone ashlar porch of the Bull Hotel.[4]
It was one of the top hotels in Cambridge until the Second World War, when in 1941 the hotel became a centre for American serviceman.[3] Photographs taken during the war show an American flag and a British flag on the hotel. At the end of the war the American servicemen established Bull College, named after the hotel and between 1945 and 1946 the hotel functioned as a centre for Russian courses for the British Army, but then merged with St Catharine's.[5]
The building became a Grade II listed building on 26 April 1950.[6][3]
Notable residents
- Woodrow Wilson – stayed at the hotel in 1899.[7]