ABSTRACT
The regional variations of seventeenth-century building along the Atlantic seaboard—the transplanted vernaculars of England, Holland, Flanders, Germany, and perhaps a vague memory of Sweden—gave way to a more canonical and uniform Georgian baroque. The private buildings are very rarely constructed of stone or brick, much the greatest portion being of scantling and boards, plastered with lime. There are two or three plans, on one of which, according to its size, most of the houses in the State are built. A country, whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree. The political economists of Europe have established it as a principle, that every State should endeavor to manufacture for itself; and this principle, like many others, we transfer to America, without calculating the difference of circumstance which should often produce a difference of result.
