RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



windows are either pointed or square-headed, or perhaps a 

 mixture of both. The porch rises into a turreted and 

 embattled gateway, and all the offices and out-buildings 

 connected with the main edifice, are constructed in a style 

 corresponding to that exhibited in the main body of the 

 building. The whole is placed on a distinct and firm 

 terrace of stone, and the expression of the edifice is that 

 of strength and security. 



This mode of building is evidently of too ambitious and 

 expensive a kind for a republic, where landed estates are 

 not secured by entail, but divided, according to the dictates 

 of nature, among the different members of a family. It is, 

 perhaps, also rather wanting in appropriateness, castles 

 never having been used for defence in this country. 

 Notwithstanding these objections, there is no very weighty 

 reason why a wealthy proprietor should not erect his 

 mansion in the castellated style, if that style be in unison 

 with his scenery and locality. Few instances, however, 

 of sufficient wealth and taste to produce edifices of this 

 kind, are to be met with among us ; and the castellated 

 style is therefore one which we cannot fully recommend 

 for adoption here. Paltry imitations of it, in materials less 

 durable than brick or stone, would be discreditable to any 

 person having the least pretension to correct taste. 



The Castellated style never appears completely at home 

 except in wild and romantic scenery, or in situations where 

 the neighboring mountains, or wild passes, are sufficiently 

 near to give that character to the landscape. In such 

 localities the Gothic castle affects us agreeably, because we 

 know that baronial castles were generally built in similar 

 spots, and because the battlements, towers, and other bold 

 features, combine well with the rugged and spirited 



