The ^ToloniaP’ School and YALE Hardware 
The “Colonial” School has something more than its mere 
beauty to recommend its adoption in our houses or their 
furnishings. 
It means something to every patriotic American. 
Technically speaking, it is that style of architecture and 
interior decoration which was 
vogue in this country Jlillillllliin ... mu. . ......... . 
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during the reigns of George M 
II. and George III. But it ^ 
was not until nearly the ^ 
middle of the Eighteenth ^ 
Century that it had really 
developed into style. 
It follows then that 
those who were the leaders, 
and those who formed the 
rank and file of our Revolu- 
tion lived in houses and ^ 
made use of furniture of the 
Colonial style. 
When we think of our 
Revolutionary Heroes, we ^ 
think also of the slender ^ 
pillared porticos, the fan 
lighted door ways, and the 
graceful spindle legged fur- 
niture which were a part of 
their world. 
This is the underlying 
and healthy sentiment which ^ 
has made the “Colonial” so 
deservedly popular and which 
has led the Yale & Towne 
Manufacturing Company to ^ 
spare no pains or researches 
in the endeavor to make the ^ 
Colonial patterns of their Yale 
Hardware reflect the very spirit ^ 
of the period it represents. ^ 
Now the Colonial style 
is not merely, as some seem 
to suppose, a synonym for ^ 
unrelieved plainness. There 
is a simplicity which implies 
refinement in its every line, as 
well as a simplicity which is but another name for ugliness. 
The appealing simplicity of the Colonial time is owing 
to the fact that the style was based on the classic forms 
as modified, first by the Masters of the Italian and 
French Renaissance, and later by our English forefathers. 
In many of its elegancies and picturesque variations in 
detail, however', the Colonial style has a distinct individuality. 
The demure red brick houses with their pedimented door 
ways, their white painted cornices and architraves, which are 
still to be seen from Virginia to New Hampshire, speak to us 
in friendlier tones than the 
most ornate palaces of alien 
races. 
YALE 
Hadley 
Design 
Yale & Towne Mfg. Go. 
New York 
They are our own and 
that is why we love them and 
the quaint fitments in which 
they abound. It was in great 
measure the reticent charac¬ 
ter of its ornamentation and 
its reliance for effect chiefly 
upon the curving beauty of 
line that distinguishes the 
interior hardware of the Co¬ 
lonial workmen. 
Another . characteristic 
should, however, be men¬ 
tioned. This is the integrity 
of the workmanship and the 
careful nature of the finish at 
the hands of skillful craftsmen. 
In each one of these 
particulars, the Yale Colonial 
Hardware is an exact replica 
of the historical examples 
upon which it is based. It 
is as demurely simple in its 
design and its decorative 
features, as soundly and 
honestly made and its finish 
is, if anything, even more 
painstaking and careful than 
that of its original. 
A home, a cottage or a 
room designed and built in 
the Colonial style will receive 
its last touch of dignified re¬ 
finement when it is furnished 
with any one of the Colonial 
patterns of Yale Hardware. 
We have published a little book about Yale Hardware 
in your home. 
It contains helpful suggestions that will be appreciated by 
home builders and home owners. We will gladly send it to you 
if you will express a wish for it. May we? 
