The Weekly Comet

Street Architecture --It is perhaps needless to preface any remarks upon this interesting subject, by saying " that every man is not naturally an architect." Though every one desiring to build, may be able to say what they want." yet few--very few indeed are those, who know how they want it. This fact is hourly demonstrated in the alterations and additions that are daily being made to new buildings. We hold, as a pure matter of economy, that however few and scant the materials are--however small the house is to be--and whatever purpose it may be designed for, that an Architect should be employed to draw out a plan, and if possible superintend the work. A house is not valuable because it has a half million of bricks in it : it is valuable only in proportion to its fitness for what it is designed. It is really painful to an order loving eye, to see a clumsy gable run into the street, neither plumb, level, or square.

As many improvements are now going on in our city--many new buildings going up, in substantial brick and mortar, landlords cannot guard too strongly against aberrations in architecture, if they look after their own interest. We are called on, to make these remarks from the fact that several buildings have lately been erected in business localities, without either form or order. The large brick building now going up on the corner of Third and Laurel streets is a crooked fact illustrative of what we say. It is neither plumb, square or level, and is not calculated to endure more than a century's wind and rain. Of course a man has an inalienable right, to build whatever form of house he chooses.- The common interest that all feel in improvements, made within the limits of our little city, renders this subject a matter of public importance.