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striking, and the neat parapet wall, either covered with a 
moulded coping, or, perhaps, diversified with battlements ; 
the latter not so massive as in the castellated style, but evi- 
dently intended for ornament only. The roof line is often 
varied by the ornamented gablet of a dormer window, rising 
here and there, and adding to the quaintness of the whole. 
We must not forget, above all, the highly enriched chim- 
ney shaft, which, in the English examples, is made of 
fancifully moulded bricks, and is carried up in clusters 
some distance above the roof. How much more pleasing 
for a dwelling must be the outline of such a building, than 
that of a simple square roof whose summit is one unbroken 
straight line !* 
The enclosed entrance porch, approached by three or four 
stone steps, with a seat or two for servants waiting, is a dis- 
tinctive 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 ceil- 
ing 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. 
* Two miles south of Albany, on a densely wooded hill, is the villa of Joel 
Rathbone, Esq., Fig. 51, 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 architecture. 
