ABSTRACT
In adopting the domestic architecture of foreign countries, architects may be equally ridiculous. England from some resemblance in habits and institutions, might furnish more suitable models for imitation than any other country; yet they would not be perfectly in accordance with our wants. “The architect is requested by a man of great wealth, nay, of established taste in some points, to make a design for a villa in a lovely situation. Cottages are at present quite “the rage” in many parts of the United States. The few examples given, of the cottage, villa, and town-house, merely afford a hint of the kind of dwelling-houses being erected in various parts of the United States. A Grecian cottage, New Haven, Connecticut. It has five rooms and a hall or entry on the first floor, very conveniently arranged. Glenn Cottage, Roxbury Highlands, is another of the beautiful designs of Mr. Lang. It is small, but exceedingly well arranged for convenience and for effect.
