248 Rural Architecture — Marine Villa. 
RURAL ARCHITECTURE— MARINE VILLA. 
(See Plate.) 
It affords us great pleasure to have it in our power to present 
our readers with another of Mr. Ranlet's designs for a villa or sea 
side cottage. It was erected on the borders of the Atlantic, in 
Monmouth county, New Jersey. 
" This villa," says Mr. Ranlet, " was built as a summer resi- 
dence for Philip A. Stockton, esq., of New York; it is situated at 
Long Branch, about five hundred feet from the sea side, on a 
liigh eminence, which commands an uninterrupted view of the 
Ocean. Long Branch is one of the most celebrated watering- 
laces on the Atlantic coast, and as the cities of New-York and 
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hiladelphia increase in inhabitants, it is every year gaining in 
importance. Mr. F. T. Grand, in his account of the watering- 
places of England and America, assigns to Long Branch the 
highest place among them all. 
"The villa of Mr. Stockton, as will be seen from the vignette, 
is designated expressly for a summer residence, and is adapted to 
the sea side, having a flat roof, bracketed and completely sur- 
rounded with double galleries. The house in the centre is well 
sheltered from the sea blasts and summer heats. 
" The object of resorting to the sea side in the sultry summer 
months, being recreation and comfort, gentlemen who rush with 
their families into crowded hotels, where the hurry-skurry and 
confusion consequent upon the arrival and departure of boarders, 
the anxiety of the host to get all he can out of his guests, to 
crowd as many into a room as will consent to be packed together, 
and to give them no more for their money than he can help, 
naturally causes a good many delicate people to return from a 
visit disgusted with their jaunt, and injured instead of benefitted 
by bathing and change of air. 
" Gentlemen who have sufficient means, and there are enough 
such to stud the shores of Rockaway and Long Branch with 
Marine Villas, would find it more economical in the end to erect 
houses for their families by the sea side, instead of crowding into 
a hotel over peopled with a multitude of chance visiters. The 
sea side cottage, or Marine Villa, being intended for occupancy 
only in the hot months, need not be so expensively constructed 
as a country house for permanent residence. 
" Perhaps the term Villa may be rather too magnificent, strictly 
considered in an architectural sense, to apply to the sea side resi- 
dence which we have given an example of. The oriental palace 
