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that of a simple square roof whose summit is one unbroken 

 straight line !* 



The inclosed entrance porch, approached by three or 

 four stone steps, with a seat or two for servants waiting, is 

 a distinctive mark of all the old English houses. This 

 projects, in most cases, from the main body of the edifice, 

 and opens directly into the hall. The latter apartment is 

 not merely (as in most of our modern houses) an entry, 

 narrow and long, running directly through the house, but 

 has a peculiar character of its own, being rather spacious, 

 the roof or ceiling ribbed or groined, and the floor often 

 inlaid with marble tiles. A corresponding and suitable 

 style of finish, with Gothic details, runs through all the 

 different apartments, each of which, instead of being 

 finished and furnished with the formal sameness here so 

 prevalent, displays, according to its peculiar purposes 

 as the dining-room, drawing-room, library, etc. a marked 

 and characteristic air. 



We have thus particularized the Tudor mansion, because 

 we believe that for a cold country like England or the 

 United States, it has strong claims upon the attention of 

 large landed proprietors, or those who wish to realize in a 

 country residence the greatest amount of comfort and 

 enjoyment. With the addition, here, of a veranda, which 

 the cool summers of England render needless, we believe 

 the Tudor Gothic to be the most convenient and com- 

 fortable, and decidedly the most picturesque and striking 



* Two miles south of Albany, on a densely wooded hill, is the villa of Joel 

 Rathbonc, Esq., Fig. 50, one of the most complete specimens of the Tudor 

 style in the United States. It was built from the designs of Davis, and is 

 to the amateur, a very instructive example of this mode of domestic arclii 

 tocture. 



