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steps away from the mass and becomes a personality. Hence 

 right at the gateway appear the signs and tokens of that per- 

 sonality. And hence the gateway itself is the place at which 

 to begin with careful consideration. 



Like every other part of a place the gateways or entrances 

 from the highway must first of all be appropriate. Stately and 

 massive pillars, supporting elaborate gates, are only suitable 

 for large and stately places, which are enclosed by a wall of 

 corresponding scale and material. But there are gateway 

 treatments for every place, however small, that are as suitable 

 for it as heavy masonry is for the large place, though these are 

 rarely seen and rarely even considered, at the present time. 



Quaint charm and a certain exclusiveness are always the 

 attributes of a gateway of any size whatsoever, that is arched 

 over with vines or a trellis, or covered in some manner. I 

 do not know why it is that this covering adds so much, but it 

 does. It contributes a something that makes for decorum and 

 dignity, that instantly commands respect for a place and for 

 its occupants. 



Perhaps it is because entrance through such an opening is 

 more like going through a door and into a room or building, than 

 through an ordinary gateway. It is suggestive too of the lovely 

 old walled gardens and dooryards of the South, into the leafy 

 coolness and sweetness of which, through a little door in the high 

 brick or stone wall, one steps with a gasp of surprise, direct from 

 the hot city pavement. 



Such gardens are the vestibules of the houses which they lie 

 beside, for the entrance to the house is only reached after admit- 

 tance to the garden has been gained and the garden gate fastens 

 with a latch and bolt. The wall of the garden is a continuation 

 of the front wall of the house, in which possibly, on the lower 



