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That the entrance lodge should correspond in style with 

 the mansion, is a maxim insisted upon by all writers on 

 Rural Architecture. Where the latter is built in a mixed 

 st\ie, there is more latitude allowed in the choice of forms 

 for the lodge, which may be considered more as a thing by 

 itself. But where the dwelling is a strictly architectural 

 composition, the lodge should correspond in style, and bear 

 evidence of emanating from the same mind. A variation of 

 the same style may be adopted with pleeisiug effect, as a lodge 



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in the form of the old English cottage for a castellated man- 

 sion, or a Doric lodge for a Corinthian villa ; but never two 

 distinct styles on the same place, (a Gothic gate-house and a 

 Grecian residence.) without producing in minds imbued with 

 correct principles, a feeling of incongruity'. A certain cor- 

 respondence in size is also agreeable ; where the dwelling of 

 the proprietor is simply an ornamental cottage, the lodge, if 

 any, should be more simple and unostentatious ; and even 

 where the house is maofnificent, the lodge should rather be 

 below the creneral 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 ol the demesne. 



