Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 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—the form of a tower or balcony, which was erected for the purpose of enabling anyone to gaze about: and there is no need to hunt through the pages of a dictionary for the origin of So obvioTis a terns! Curiosity is' common to the race, and contrivances of nil kinds have been called for throughout the ages, and will continue to be. to enable peoplb- to. pry into their neighbors' affairs; and architectural solutions of the problem must always be as interesting as they have prov ed mos t pictures q ue. Doubtless in the remotest antiquity such means of pryhig_wergjfa_7vogumand t hehangl ng gardens- of Baley lon may have presented replicas of the towers of Kent or Chambers'; but we will go no further back for examples lit it I La u rChTti tfi. The Plinys, as we know, were of a very inquiring turn of jnind, and are most appropriately commemorated at Como. their supposed Idrthpko’e, ou the west front of the cathedral, by a sculptured representation of each engaged in.looking out of a window. Thus-it was that when Pliny the Younger built his celebrated villa lie gave it two towers, and as they could be used neither for defense in such a place nor for rooms; at such a period, we can only suppose them to have been erecte<l to as gazebos where he could look into the grounds of his neighbors and watch their’incomings and outgoings.—,!,. Traveller Perry in Architect : (England). ■ - ■ -I - - - j