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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR 
The want of a new style of Architecture, properly adapted to the American climate, our comforts and require- 
ments, has long been a source of grievous complaint. Other nations have their own styles, adapted to their require- 
ments, and it has been a matter of considerable surprise that, inventive and ingenious as we are in other matters, 
there seems not, as yet, to have been any attempt towards the production of a style truly American in its charactetr- 
i sties and suited to our necessities and tastes, and which, even though not entirely new, would still be recognized as 
American. 
It should be borne in mind that, to conceive an entirely new style is an impossibility ; it is, therefore, only in the 
