506 Architecture — or the Science of Building. [November, 



cal as well as ornamental point of view. While no claim is laid to 

 any superiority or excellence in the structure presented, over many 

 Bimilar ones in the neighorhood of our city, yet it presents at once 

 to the practiced eye all the proportions of Grrecian architecture 

 according to the Corinthian order, the capital of the column excepted, 

 which exhibits a slight deviation in form, but in fillets, bands, flutes, 

 length and breadth of column, it is in conformity to the strictest 

 rules of the order, which may be seen by a single glance at the 

 engraving. 



The grounds and surroundings, though in some respects neat, are 

 subject to criticism, rearrangement has here been postponed on ac- 

 count of the numerous choice fruit trees which were established 

 previous to building, which economy has spared until others could 

 be reared in the back ground to supply their place. In this respect 

 we are compelled to adopt the preceptive and say follow our direc- 

 tions and not our example. And our precept here is adopt by all 

 means the natural system of grouping, and not officering in straight 

 rows as hitherto extensively, we may say universally, practiced. — 

 Leaving our engraving we would offer a few remarks on architecture, 

 and especially on 



RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



Architecture, or the science of building, undoubtedly occupied the 

 attention of men as soon as that of cultivating the lands. Hence 

 Theodoretus calls the latter, that is, Ac/rindfure, the oldest sister of 

 architecture. The excessive heats of summer, the severity of winter, 

 inconvenience of rain, and the violence of wind, soon instructed 

 mankind to seek for shelter, and provide themselves retreats, to de- 

 fend them against the inclemencies of the weather. The first essays 

 ■were doubtless rude in the extreme, burlesqueing every thing like 

 architectural taste in their construction as do now many of those 

 ruder attempts that greet us, not confined to the backwoods which 

 might be denominated simple enclosures for the waives and children 

 of the occupants, not even consulting utility, much less neatness or 

 taste in their external appearance. Long, long before this noble 

 art reached anything like perfection ; we find that neither to Asia 

 nor Egypt are we indebted to that degree of it which it subsequently 

 attained. The designs, which we have of the ruins of Pcrsepolis, 

 prove that the Kings of Persia, of whose opulence ancient history 

 says so much, had but indifferent artists in their employ. However 



