when sherlock holmes stories were first published, the street numbers on baker street only went up to 100. sir arthur conan doyle deliberately chose a fictional door number to avoid disrupting anyone's real-life residence with the immense popularity of his stories.
the road that now includes 221b baker street, located north of marylebone road near regent's park, was actually called upper baker street during conan doyle's lifetime. in his earliest writing, conan doyle placed sherlock holmes' home on upper baker street, explaining it with, "if i had a house in mind, that's where it would be."
later on, nigel morland, a british crime writer, claimed that conan doyle, later in life, pinpointed the intersection of baker street and george street, about 500 meters south of marylebone road, as the true location of 221b.
today, this address is home to the sherlock holmes museum, which still receives letters addressed to sherlock holmes from fans all over the world.
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