STYLE OF THE GATE AND LODGE. 



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not prepare one for a Gothic or Elizabethan mansion. 

 Mr. Gilpin well remarks, that the stylo of the lodge 

 and gate should be made suitable to the local position 

 in which they are placed. Were this always the case, 

 their effect would be less open to criticism than it fre- 

 quently is. We may add, that there should be a visi- 

 ble harmony, not only in stylo, but in importance, 

 between the gate and the lodge ; for the one is often 

 sunk by its marked inferiority to the other. Some- 

 times, when referring to the principal entrance into a 

 park, one hesitates to speak of the gate or of the lodge, 

 from the relative want of importance of the one or 

 the other of them. Although the gate is the principal 

 object, and the lodge only an accessory appendage, in 

 designing them the result aimed at should be a united 

 and well-balanced group. When the approach is 

 short, there is a greater necessity for an exact similar- 

 ity of style between the entrance-buildings and those 

 of the mansion-house. The gate should stand at right 

 angles to the line of the approach, and should be 

 placed sufficiently back from the center of the public 

 road, when one passes in front of it, as not only to 

 enable a carriage to stand clear of the road and the 

 gate while the latter is opening, but to turn easily into 

 it. It also conduces to convenient attendance on the 

 gate, that the lodge is furnished with a window which 

 commands a view of a carriage coming from the house 

 some time before it reaches the gate. 



Note. — The prevailing fault in building gates and 

 lodges, is in the effort at too ambitious a style of archi- 

 tecture, and a consequent expense in the structures 

 themselves. The gate should be in keeping with the 

 main inclosure> both in strength and costliness; so, 



