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that of a simple square roof whose summit is one unbroken 
straight line !* 
The inclosed entrance porch, approached by three or 
four stone steps, with a seat or two for servants waiting, is 
a distinctive 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 ceiling 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. 
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 
enjoyment. 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 com- 
fortable, and decidedly the most picturesque and striking 
* Two miles south of Albany, on a densely wooded hill, is the villa of Joel 
Rathbonc, Esq., Fig. 50, 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 archi 
lecture. 
