Entrance lodges

Entrance Lodges are not only handsome architectural objects in the scenery of country residences of large size, but are in many cases exceedingly convenient, both to the family and the guests or visitors having frequent ingress and egress. The entrance lodge may further be considered a matter strictly useful, in serving as the dwelling of the gardener or farmer and his family. In this point of view, arrangements for the comfort and convenience of the inmates should be regarded as more important than the fanciful decoration of the exterior-as no exterior, however charming, can, to a reflective and well regulated mind, apologize for contracted apartments, and imperfect light and ventilation, in human habitations.