The name

In front of the B&B is the historic building of Porta Susa Station. The eclectic passenger pavilion was built in 1856-1858 as the terminus of the train line to Novara (1853) in a rapidly changing city. In 1845 Porta Susa was at one end of a horse-drawn public bus line, running along via Garibaldi, piazza Castello and via Po and terminating at the Gran Madre Church.

The old station has been closed and a new passenger building has been built nearby (project by the architects Jean-Marie Duthilleul, Etienne Tricaud, Silvio D'Ascia and Agostino Magnaghi). The new 2013 building is an underground station with an external glass and steel gallery 300 meters long and 19 meters high. The new Porta Susa Station is to become Torino's main railway traffic hub (urban, regional and international).

The building

The building on Corso Inghilterra 43-45 is a 5-floor apartment complex built in 1889. The building originally had the ground floor and 4 floors and it reached the present configuration with the addition of the 5th floor in 1923. The neighborhood in which it is set, called Cit Turin (Little Torino in the Piedmontese dialect) was developed in the first decades of the 1900's.

The apartment where the B&B is located was purchased in 1915 by Virgilio Bonino for his parents and since then it has been the home of 4 Bonino generations. The B&B was opened in 2007 by the present owner Marco Bonino.

On the ground floor some shops with windows on the street and among them the renowned Restaurant Vecchia Londra.

It happened in 1889 in Torino

From the same year as the building:

• Foundation of FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino).
• The Mole Antonelliana, by the architect Alessandro Antonelli, is completed.
• While the public gas lighting is extended in several streets of the center, electric lighting is installed in Piazza San Carlo.
• The first Union in Italy is founded with the name “Confederazione delle Società Operaie di Torino”. The first general strike in Italy was organized in Torino on April 11 1889 and lasted a few days.
• Between 1888 and 1889 the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschel ived in Torino, in via Carlo Alberto 6. Here he wrote the book “Ecce homo” and his madness was revealed.
• Building of the OGM, the most significant industrial complex still intact in Torino, marked by the presence of great hiostoric and architectural value buildings, by architects such as Pietro Fenoglio and Giacomo Mattè Trucco.
• Foundation of the School of Electrotechnics, later incorporated in the Politecnico di Torino, by Galileo Ferraris (Livorno, VC 1847 - Torino 1896), inventor of the electric induction motor, that changed the world.

It happened in 1889 in the world

• January 15 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
• January 30 - Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide
• March 31 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris during the Universal Exhibition to commemorate the hudredth anniversary of the French Revolution.
• May 2 - Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.
• June 8 - The Wall Street Journal is established.
• November 15 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup (he was the second and last emperor of Brazil).
• November 23 - The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• Plague epidemic in Moscow and Russia.
• The japanese physician Shibasaburo Kitasato isolates the tetanus bacterium.
• The neapolitan cook Raffaele Esposito dedicates to Queen Margherita the "pizza Margherita" representing the new Italian flag with the white mozzarella, the red tomato and the green basil.
• The Moulin Rouge is built and opened in Paris.
• Emile Berliner markets first commercial gramophone records.

Born in 1889

• April 16: Charlie Chaplin, British actor and director († 1977)
• April 20: Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator († 1945)
• July 5: Jean Cocteau, French writer
• March 28: Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer
• Francis Poulenc, French composer

Works of 1889

Vincent Van Gogh
Georges Seurat	Giovanni Fattori	Gustav Klimt	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	Paul Gauguin

Gabriele D'Annunzio - The Pleasure
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
Lev Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1