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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1825 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorNash, Johnen_US
dc.date1825en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-19T20:34:15Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T20:34:15Z
dc.date.issued1825en_US
dc.identifier192030en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1341en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99315
dc.descriptionView of the north gate from the north; Regents Park gave Nash an opportunity to bring Repton's aristocratic landscape-garden ideas to the town. His plans for the park were approved in 1812 and, with the credit boom following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he was able to develop the Crown land surrounding the park with profitable housing for the rich. Here, overlooking the park, he produced a series of highly inventive variations on the theme of the Georgian terrace. Park Crescent (1812), Sussex Place (1822), Chester Terrace (1825) and Cumberland Terrace (1825) are palatial-looking structures that conceal commonplace construction and planning behind a display of Roman-inspired architecture in stucco. [At 313 yards Chester House has the longest unbroken facade of any of the terraces. Corinthian arches are used to bring weighty emphasis to the ends and middle points and also to the centre points between these. At both ends triumphal arches lead out to a roadway.] Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/10/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstucco; bricken_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectHousingen_US
dc.subjectparks (recreation areas)en_US
dc.subjectdwellingen_US
dc.subjectRegencyen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleChester Terraceen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-NJ-CHT-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehousing projecten_US
vra.worktyperow houseen_US
dc.contributor.displayJohn Nash (British architect, 1752-1835)en_US


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