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cottage, the lodge, if introduced, should be more simple and 

 unostentatious ; and even where the house is magnificent, 

 the lodge should rather be below the general air of the 

 residence than above it, that the stranger who enters at a 

 showy and striking lodge may not be disappointed in the 

 want of correspondence between it and the remaining 

 portions of the demesne. 



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[Fig. 63. The New Gate Lodge at Blithewood.] 



The gate-lodge at Blithewood, on the Hudson, the seat 

 of R. Donaldson, Esq., is a simple and effective cottage in 

 the bracketed style — octagonal in its form, and very com- 

 pactly arranged internally. 



Nearly all the fine seats on the North river have entrance 



lodges — often simple and but little ornamented, or only 



— - pleasingly embowered in 



foliage ; but, occasional- 

 y, highly picturesque and 

 striking in appearance. 



A view of the pretty 

 gate lodge at Nether- 

 wood, Duchess County 

 N. Y., the seat of Gardi 



f Fig. 64. The Gate Lodge at Netherwood.j 



