Hope Street was straightened during the 1790s and residential construction commenced around the turn of the century. The
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (home of the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society) stands on the corner of Myrtle Street and Hope Street. It was designed by
Herbert James Rowse and built between 1936 and 1939. This replaced the original building built 90 years earlier to designs by
John Cunningham that burned down in 1933. It is built of brick and is starkly cubic in appearance except for a pair of rounded stair-towers to the front. The first floor windows and main entrance doors have etched glass by
Hector Whistler. On Hope Street at the top of Mount Street (where stands
LIPA and the former
Liverpool Institute for Boys) is the interesting sculpture "A Case History" by John King, 1998. Various items of luggage, cast in concrete, are stacked on the pavement – the labels on the suitcases refer to notable individuals and institutions linked with the local area. Facing the Anglican Cathedral on Hope Street is Gambier Terrace of which numbers 2–10 were built between 1832 and 1837 by the developer Ambrose Lace, to a design in ashlar ad stucco often attributed to
John Foster Jr. The terrace was extended between the late 1830s and early 1840s. At the northern end of Hope Street is the
Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral and, towards the southern end, the
Anglican Cathedral. ==Notable buildings and places of interest==