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Much may be learned from a study of early examples of American brick houses. 
oughly well suited to the material of the facades. 
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Here one sees the exquisite example of a doorway thor- 
The brick house that is properly set in the midst of surrounding trees forms an attrac- 
tive note in any landscape 
—the variety is fascinating, for if we except Gothic, which 
is to a great extent a style adapted only for buildings of 
stone and which in any case is rarely if ever used for do- 
mestic architecture, there is no style of building which can- 
not be suitably interpreted in brick and for which precedent 
and tradition do not offer examples. The Italian style 
which just now is so deservedly popular is more frequently 
and perhaps more properly developed in brick than in any- 
thing else. The English and German domestic types find 
their most beautiful expression in cottages of brick, and the 
very words suggest pictures of time-worn, ivy-covered houses 
of half timber which are beautiful, not in spite of their age, 
but because of it, and usually these cottages are of brick 
‘of some of the many kinds which the old builders under- 
