The Architecture of Georgetown. 
By the Very Revd. Ignatius Scoles, S.J., formerly Member of the Royal 
Institute of British Architects. 
f O pretentious a title may bring to the minds of 
many, the old scholastic phrase nego suppo- 
sition, or the reader may naturally be inclined 
look up and say to himself, where does there really 
exist any true architecture in Georgetown, worth either 
writing about, or comment upon, or even criticism ? 
That there exists but little art or real architecture in 
our midst, we must frankly acknowledge; that there existed 
much less some twenty years ago and more, this we must 
not altogether forget ; but that after all said and done, there 
does really exist some, this too we are bound in fair 
justice to admit. 
Our public buildings, erected at the suggestion of 
public men, and built out of public money, may, or may not 
rejoice in architectural correctness, taste, or beauty, just 
in proportion as certain circumstances affect them at their 
birth, or in their growth or ac their completion. If, on the 
one hand, our buildings are left, after all necessary 
practical suggestions have been given and taken, to 
the free and unfettered art-taste, talent and genius of 
art-educated and duly qualified architects, we may then 
certainly have something to look forward to, and some 
architectural buildings to boast of. 
But if, on the other hand, as in far too many places in 
the West Indies, our buildings whether public or private 
are left to the bold conceits, and wild caprices of con- 
noisseurs and dabbling amateurs, who have in all self- 
