Laid out from the 1780s onwards under Lady Gertrude’s supervision, Gower Street retains one of London’s longest sets of unbroken Georgian terraces. Critics initially decried the street’s plainness and John Ruskin is said to have called it “the nec plus ultra of ugliness in British architecture.” The Bedford estate later added ... More @Wikipedia
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