Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1919 — DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS [ARTICLE]

DESIGNED FOR THE CURIOUS

Not Hard to Trace Origin rind Reason for the Garebo in Architectural Designs. No name could be more descriptive limn gazebo for a building, whether it assume the form of a tower or balvorry. which was erecteiT~for~~nfe~pur-~ pose of enabling.anyone to gnze iibont: -arnFTlTore is no need to hunt through the pages of n dietianuTyJor tho orrgln of so ohvimis nt?iiu—Curiosity is common to the race, and contrivances of till kinds have been called for throughout the ages, mid will conUiuw to be, to enable people tri pry into , their■nrr-ghbor-c rfi-fi-tr*nmd-nrrhitvet 1 ' uraT solutions of the problem must a'l- • -ways-he—ris—-3xj qmmtly Proved most pictiiresqne. ; Doubtless in the remotest .antiquity such timiins of jwyin.g were‘in vog.ie. and fire h'f.r.ging gardens of Ihiby! m may have presented replicas of the { towers of Kent or Chambers; but we | “will go no further - back for examples than Pliny's vUki-4it4,uur<mDMw.- —The. I'fmi '-. :i- wo kuww. were o's ■ ■ry inquiring turn of mind, and tire most apprc.pr ! :e> ly cieii'ieiiioriitfil nt Cmuo. their supposed birthplace; on the west front of t!ie cathedrai. by a sculptnri-1 representation of each engaged in looking out of a window. Thus it was that when Pliny the Younger built his. celebrated villa he gave it two as they could be used" neither for de--fensei hi; such a place nor for smokihg -rooiiis at -uch a period, we can only stipjmse—tlu’in to have been tJE.ee.htsl to serve as gaz.i'bos where ho Could ; .hmk.’ iwu Jhe groU-nds. <.0'.44s tier g’tiers J UTrfi Avtit eh riieir i-ucmti4ugs-4Ujd-aiiig£>.--j ings.-i-J. 'Traverier Perry in Architect (England).