Excerpt from The English House How to Judge Its Periods and Styles

No book has yet been written for the lay public on the English House and its evolution through the centuries. Many authors speak of this subject from a technical point of view, and are excellent guides for professional students; but it happens that architecture depends for its support on the encouragement of laymen, on the patronage given to it by towns and by private enterprise; hence the writing of books for architects only cannot do much good, since no appeal is made to the real patron and paymaster, the nation as a whole.

In these circumstances architecture is neglected, and we find that although there are buildings everywhere in England that represent many styles and a long history of social changes, only a very few persons in a thousand know an Ionic column when they see it, or can tell the difference between Gothic and Classic forms.

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