Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS [ARTICLE]

DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS

Not Hard to Trace Origin and Reason for the Gazebo in Architectural Designs. No name could be more descriptive than gazebo for a building, whether it assume 1 th< *' form of a tower or~bn 1 - cony, which was erected for the purpose of enabling anyone to gaze about: | and there is no need to.hunt through I th.- pages of a dictionary for the origin of so obvious a term. Curiosity is common to file race, and contrivances of nil 1 kinds have been called for 'throughout the ages, aiid will continue to Tiix toTnnble people to pry into j th- jr neighbors’-alYrtiTs: and nrchlteet- i nral-solutions-of the problem must al- I wHys' b<•' ash; t er>-sting sis they JiayeT frequently proved most picturesque. | l>oHb«les*r-4H-44m remotest ntifiopi tv such means of prying were Jn \m?tue. and the hang-ng gnnlens of llabyiuu may have presented replicas, of’the towers of Kent or Chambers; but we nn further hack for-'ovathpl-EsJ Tgjuretrt'ntrrr-yTlrm Pl inis, as we know, were of iFwmrF inquiring turn of mind, and are most apprnpriateli commemorated at t'cino. their supposed on the west front of the cathedral, by a sculptured representation of each engaged in looking out of a window. Tims it was that I uhen'Pliny the Younger built his cole- . brated villa he gave it two towers, and I as they c<»uld be used neither for de-ft-nse r in spell a place nor for smoking rooms at such a peu’od. we ean tinlW suppose them to have been erected to. serve.-as gazebos -where he 'could iind Watetc ilieir incomings-u’trdTTtrtgo^-i:.vs —.,1. Tr:. \■ m• r Perry in Arehiiect (England).