Glover Garden (グラバー園 Gurabāen) is a park in Nagasaki, Japan built for Thomas Blake Glover,
a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in
shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover
Residence, the oldest Western style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.
The Glover Residence is noted for its blend of Western and Japanese elements and is an example of treaty port
building. This type of architecture closely resembles one-story
bungalows used by foreigners in Hong Kong or Shanghai and imported to
Japan by British traders. Rather than following contemporary Victorian
styles, this type of building more closely reflects the Georgian
aesthetic popular in Britain during the previous generation.
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