Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1919 — DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS [ARTICLE]

DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS

Not Hard to Trace Origin and Reason , far the Gazebo in Architectural Designs. No name could be more descriptive - thin) gazebo for a building, whether it i assume the form of a tower or bali cony, which was erected for the? purpose of enabnnguTffvdluTto gaze about and there is no need to hunt through the pages of a dictionary for the origin of- so obvious a term. Curiosity is common to the race, ami contrivances n>f :iil kinds have been -called for throughout tin 1 ages, and will continue to be. to enable people to pry i»to their neighbors' affairs; and archltect» jirff! JyfliitioiiSL.-oL tire problem- nwst- always be as interesting its they have frequently proved most picturesque. ; the reimucst airiqnity such 'means of prying were in vogue, and the Tuffiglng' gardens of .Babylon ! may have juvstuited replicas of the.- ‘ towers of Kent or Chambers; but we I will go no further back for examples than I-’lin? '.s villa at Laureiikuiu—The Tlinys. as we know, were of a very iwrid;-Tmflr^ r e7TiTdst“ appropriat el y cotiunemora ted a t Conio. xheir supposed birthplace, on the west ■ front of the cathedral, by a sculptured representation of each engaged in -looking out of aAnndow. Thus it was'that when Pliny tihr*y , o»fa?ser built his celebrated villa ne'gave it two towers, and as they cbuld be used neither for defense in-stich. a place norjfor smoking rooms at such a period, we can only “suppose them to have been erected to serve as gazebos where he couldj look into the ground* of his neighbors and vvatch tlteir im-omings and outgoJtTgs.—jTTl'ravenbr Perry in Architect ftffigland) / - ,■ ,JT