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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt:... strictest 18th and early 19th century meaning of the word--that of "one who builds" or who "superintends the con author of the "Life" and evidenced by his confusion of two buildings of entirely dissimilar design, neither of which can be said, even remotely, to show the"infiuence of /Vren," and far distant in their date of erection; would seem to be sufficient ground for questioning his statement of the authorship of the design. Fiske Kimball in discussing the "Grange" in his recent (and remarkably satisfying) American Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and the Early Republic, apparently accepts McComb's connection as designer of this house on the evidence of the "Life." He may, also, have seen in the McComb collection in The New York Historical Society, a plan marked "Hamilton's Country Seat" which I have an indistinct recollection of having seen among the McComb papers. Mr. Kimball adds, also, "that the square headed doorway with side lights, and usually a transom, made their ap DETAIL OF THE ROGER MORRIS OR JUMEL MANSION, NEW YORK One of the original side doors, the only original exterior door in the house dating from 1765 THE HOHO MAN HZS, Z,HO,E,,HOER Z 2. S-.,Z, N, YO', N. '.' in '.7 One of four typical New York farmhouses rerently and most skilfully restored struction of a building." It was undoubtedly in that sense, without reference to McComb as having created the design, that the word was used on the cornerstone of the City Hall. The question of the respective merits of the claims for Joseph Mangin and John McComb as designers of the City Hall are discussed at length by I.N. Phelps Stokes in his monumental work on New York, "Th...