We shall see that in New York State and in New Jersey the Dutch influences prevailed in the early architecture, and in Pennsylvania, the German. It is all good architecture, however. The Dutch hoods are habitually at the eaves, while the German hoods which separated the first and second stories were often carried around the entire building, as flounces upon a skirt (see Plates XXV and XC). The hoods are all fascinating, thoroughly architectonic, yet how little have they been studied and developed in modern design! The niceties of their application and use are little understood by the average architect, who, ordinarily, would think he was wasting his client’s money to exploit anything of the kind. You see, he forgets that his client has spiritual needs as well as physical ones. The gambrel roofs of the Dutch houses have come to be commercial commodities and are continually resorted to--no, are continually parodied, I mean to say--by modern builders who cannot tell what this immutable art principle we are talking about may be. They are simply magnificent, the roof lines of the old stone house at Hackensack, N. J., shown in Plate XXV, yet they are not good enough for the modern inventor, he must try some fancied improvement in the way of a grotesque pitch, for which he racks his brain. Of these same fancied improvements I could supply examples _ad infinitum_, but they could only pain the reader, however great a favor I might be doing American commercialism. And now I must pause again for the present, because I am come to the doorway of Wyck at Germantown (Plate XIX), and before it the architectural critic PLATE XXV. [Illustration: JOHNSON HOUSE, GERMANTOWN, PA.] [Illustration: HOUSE AT HACKENSACK, N. J. EARLY 18TH CENTURY.] PLATE XXVI. [Illustration: HOUSE AT BOGOTA, N. J. EARLY 18TH CENTURY.] [Illustration: OSMASTON MANOR, DERBYSHIRE. (From English “Country Life.”)]