RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 
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We have thus particularized the Tudor mansion, because 
we believe that for a cold country like England or the 
United States, it has strong claims upon the attention of 
large landed proprietors, or those who wish to realize in a 
country residence the greatest amount of comfort and enjoy- 
ment, With the addition, here, of a veranda* which the 
cool summers of England render needless, we believe the 
Tudor Gothic to be the most convenient and comfortable, 
and decidedly the most picturesque and striking style, for 
country residences of a superior class.* The materials gene- 
rally employed in their construction in England, are stone 
and brick ; and of late years, brick and stucco has come into 
very general use. 
The Elizabethan Style , that mode of building so com- 
mon in England in the 17th century, — a mixture of Gothic 
and Grecian in its details — is usually considered as a bar- 
barous kind of architecture, wanting in purity of taste. Be 
this as it may, it cannot be denied that in the finer specimens 
of this style, there is a surprising degree of richness and 
picturesqueness for which we may look in vain elsewhere. 
In short it seems, in the best examples, admirably fitted 
for a bowery j thickly foliaged country, like England, and 
for the great variety of domestic enjoyments of its inhabi- 
tants. In the most florid examples of this style, of which 
many specimens yet remain, we often meet with every kind 
of architectural feature and ornament, oddly, and often 
grotesquely combined — pointed gables, dormer-windows, 
steep and low roofs, twisted columns, pierced parapets, and 
* The residence of Samuel E. Lyon, Esq., at White Plains, N. Y., Fig. 54, is a 
very pleasing example of the Tudor Cottage. 
The seat of Robert Gilmor, Esq., near Baltimore, in the Tudor style, is a very 
extensive pile of building. 
