Above the shores of Onondaga Lake sprawls the most outstanding product of the Greek Revival in Syracuse. Lacking but five columns to gain a completely encircling colonnade, this house is technically the extent reached by the classic spirit, its eighteen columns the closest approach to the ideal temple forrn.*

Jerome Briggs was a district attorney who built this house of native cobblestones in 1840 and here died in 1865. The handcarved winding stairway and the fireplaces in each room are worthy of mention but it is, of course, the exterior that deserves most attention.

With difficulty the colonnade is disregarded to note the typical small attic windows which were probably at one time closed with grilles, the platform on the roof, and the doorway pilasters with their delicate anthemion carvings (figure 6).

The most ovious inconsistency lies in the failure of the roof to extend to the extremes of the colonnade as they should in the true temple form. This is rather a roofed walk built around an inner structure. The builder must however be admired for his forthrightness in lowering the colonnade and thereby introducing second story windows to their share of light. In the Powell House preceding may be observed the complete disregard of this essential quality. The rear wing seen through the colonnade in figure three is typical but structurally unimportant as are the cornice projections already so thoroughly familiar.

Note 1: See text page 14