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Show w -- Colonial Beauty Lasting Why Is the simple Colonial style of the early American period one of Inimitable In-imitable dignity and loveliness? Why does the old German castle, the French chalet, the Itallnn villa or the quaint English cottage charm ns, even though built a century or more ago? Their builders did not set out to duplicate foreign Individualities. A French baron did not want an English collage; neither did a German count want n Spanish bungalow. And Jnut no did the American colonists want nrchito'-l ural expressions of their own those exnrcs.sfonH which have since birn rendered traditional and fii-r-pptuated as classic. 7ielth' Magazine |