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style, for country residences of a superior class.* The 
materials generally employed in their construction in 
England, are stone aud 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 oi 
Gothic and Grecian in its details — is usually considered as 
a barbarous kind of architecture, wanting in purity of 
taste. Be this as it may, it cannot be denied that in the 
liner 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, thickly foliaged country, 
like England, and for the great variety of domestic 
enjoyments of its inhabitants. 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 broad windows with small 
lights. Sometimes the effect of this fantastic combination 
is excellent, but often bad. The florid Elizabethan style 
is, therefore, a very dangerous one in the hands of any 
one but an architect of profound taste ; but we think in 
some of its simpler forms (Fig. 52), it may be adopted for 
country residences here in picturesque situations with a 
quaint and happy effect, f 
* The residence of Samuel E. Lyon, Esq., at White Plains, N. Y., Fig. 51, 
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. 
t A highly unique residence in the old English syle, is Pelham Priory, the 
seat of the Rev. Robert Bolton, near New Rochelle, N. Y., Fig. 53. Th9 
