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19: 100:, the Nash buildings around the park, including Hanover Terrace, fell into what one newspaper called "a sad state of neglect … caused by bombing and the ravages of time". An official report commented "there is not a single terrace which does not give the impression of hopeless dereliction". Restoration work followed in the early 1950s. The terrace was mainly occupied by government departments, during and after the war, but by 1957, the freeholder of the terrace, the 418: 427:
Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century, Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists from Original Drawings, Taken from the Objects Themselves Expressly for this
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Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century, Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists from Original Drawings, Taken from the Objects Themselves Expressly for this
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is weak in profile for the height of the building. The stories of the mansions are lofty, and the domestic arrangement of the various rooms convenient. The situation of this
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of which is embellished with statues and figures. The style of architecture employed by the artist is
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is near the northwestern extremity of the western branch of the park's lake.
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are erected. The centre building is crowned by a well proportioned
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are well proportioned in design, and well executed, but the
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in 1822. It has a centre and two wing buildings, of the
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Regent's Park
City of Westminster
listed building
John Nash
Doric order
acroterion
terracotta
pediment
tympanum
Italian
Palladian
capitals
entablature
terrace
Second World War
Crown Estate
blue plaques
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Anthony Salvin
H. G. Wells
Edmund Gosse
Sir Alexander Bryce
Adeline Genée
Richard Green
Samuel Gurney
Sir Samuel Instone
Thomas Longman
Irene Petrie
Mirabel Topham

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