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DOMESTIC

an CIIITECTURE.

Another chimncy~pieoe is from Cobham Iiall, tween the gallery and saloon, and is carved with in Kent, an ediﬁce of such antiquity, that it was; the story of Medusa, underneath which are two repaired, two centuries ago, by the famous Inigo i allegorical basso-relievos. Another of our illus i trations represents a chimney-piece at the Duke’s House, in Wiltshire, so called from the Duke of Kingston, to whom it formerly belonged. This imposing two-storied ﬁre-place is in the entrance

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Jones. The chimney-piece is in the dining-room, and is of elaborately carved black and white»

marble, with quaint and curious ﬁgures. Still another ancient chimney-piece is from Charlton Ilall, also in Kent, erected about A. D. 1610. _ This chimney-piece is on the upper ﬂoor, he

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Another chimney-piece, of an earlier

date, and which closes our list, is even more pic turesque.

The accumulation of wealth in this country is gradually improving our domestic architecture. The environs of our great cities are beginning to be crowded with suburban mansions, on many of which large sums have been expended and

which frequently exhibit excellent taste.

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Rural

cottages, in the Italian, Tudor, 0r Gothic style, dot the landscape. especially in the older settled portions of the United States. We have, from time to time, in this periodical, given plans and speciﬁcations, accompanied with engravings, £01 such dwellings. Dut the interior decorations of these cottages and mansions are too often