Having noted the conditions that made the Georgian style of architecture particularly acceptable to people of substance in the eighteenth century it now remains to examine in detail the features constituting its distinctive local character. The examples of Georgian domestic architecture to be found in and about Philadelphia offer an unsurpassed field for examination and comparison, and a study of their peculiarities shows an interesting evolution through three distinct forms, all of which, nevertheless, belong to the same generic classification. “Georgian,” of course, in the narrowest sense of the word would indicate the mode in vogue only during the reigns of the Georges, but Georgian architecture is not to be limited by any such cramped or arbitrary bounds. It was the style evolved by logical steps from the prevailing type of preceding reigns and was, in short, an expression of Renaissance Classicism, filtered through a medium of English interpretation and adapted to local needs, on lines first marked out by the seventeenth century architects headed by Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher [Illustration: Copyright, J. B. Lippincott Co. WHITBY HALL, NORTH FRONT, KINGSESSING, PHILADELPHIA. 1754.] [Illustration: Copyright, J. B. Lippincott Co. STAIRWAY, WHITBY HALL.] [Illustration: Copyright, J. B. Lippincott Co. WHITBY HALL, SOUTH FRONT.] [Illustration: MANTEL DETAIL, WHITBY HALL.] Wren. The stateliness and formality of Georgian design satisfied the cravings of prosperous Colonial gentry for the affluent pomp and circumstance with which they chose to surround themselves.