_Frontispiece_--Garden Front of Bennett House, New Bedford, Epoch 1840. PLATES. I--In an Old Time Renaissance Garden. The Governor Smith House at Wiscasset, Me. II--Doorway, Washington Square, North, New York City. III--Pickering House, Salem, Mass. Erected A.D. 1649. Cole House, Farmington, Conn. IV--If you want atmosphere and plenty of it, go to Salem. Historic Atmosphere in a Modern Dwelling,--Silvergate. V--Shirley-on-the-James. American Renaissance Dwelling by an imitator of Richardson. Date about 1890. VI--Doorway at Bristol, R. I. VII--American Renaissance and Analysis. VIII--The Newly Invented Architecture and Analysis. Eastover, Terrace and Peristyle. IX--Eastover: Garden Front. X--Not every Architect is Able to Give you this Atmosphere. Page House, Danvers, Mass. Money will not buy the Cotton Smith House. XI--Victims of Commercialism, Belmont Houses, New York City. Chimney-piece, American Renaissance. Designed by T. Henry Randall. XII--Simplicity of Art, Wadsworth House, Middletown, Conn. Efflorescence of Commercialism. XIII--Mantelpiece, American Renaissance. Epoch 1806. Orne-Ropes House, Salem. Epoch 1720. Both name and identity of its designer have in all probability been irrevocably mislaid in oblivion, but he was an architect. XIV--Doorway, Means House, Amherst, N. H. XV--Munro-French House, Bristol, R. I. Epoch 1800. These apprentices essayed no stunts. An Ancient Farm-house at Durham, Conn. XVI--So far as teaching architectural art is concerned it must be admitted that our public schools have been a dead failure.--_Modern Farm-house._ Type of Farm-house. Epoch end of Eighteenth Century. XVII--Peristyle to a House in Wyoming, N. J. (1897). American Renaissance, 1899. XVIII--Detail, Princessgate, 1896. “A little learning is a dangerous thing,” etc. XIX--Wyck, Germantown. Epoch A.D. 1700. XX--Doorway, Philadelphia Club. XXI--Derby-Ward House, Salem, Mass. Seventeenth Century. Souvenir of Abigail and Deliverance Hobbs, two alleged witches of Topsfield, Mass. XXII--Modern Cottage with a Germantown Hood. Modern Cottage with a Dutch Hood. XXIII--Germantown Motive Applied to a Modern Cottage. Type of Early Connecticut House, Stratford, Conn. XXIV--Type of Early Connecticut House, Middletown, Conn. XXV--Johnson House, Germantown, Pa. House at Hackensack, N. J. Eighteenth Century. XXVI--House at Bogota, N. J. Eighteenth Century. XXVII--Mount Vernon-on-the-Potomac. River front. XXVIII--Mount Vernon-on-the-Potomac. West front. XXIX--A Salem Gateway, Nichols House. Hoppin House, from the close, Litchfield. XXX--House of Captain McPhædris at Portsmouth, N. H. XXXI--Doorway at Warren, R. I. Chimney-piece, American Renaissance, 1899. XXXII--Morris House, Germantown. Wister House, Germantown. XXXIII--Wyck, Germantown. Terrace and Garden Front of a House at Wyoming, N. J., 1899. XXXIV--John Cotton Smith House, Sharon, Conn. The Deming House, Litchfield, Conn.