With a four column facade added to the body of the Ostrom house, we arrive at another type of Greek Revival structure, already forecast in the early examples on pages 38 and 77 - the "temple of the common man" - in contrast to the plainer "cella temple" discussed on pages 15 and 66.

The columns being of no small additional expense, the miniature temple naturally did not attain the spread experienced by its simpler relations. But the effort to achieve some truer temple form was extensive nevertheless. If needs be the columns were reduced to an almost minimum single story height, but the entablature was always retained along with the pediment and typical mouldings. For some unknown reason, four columns were settled upon as the ideal number and the structures that utilize more are indeed rare, has been mentioned.

From the single story column it is an easy transition to the two story colonnade already seen in several examples of an earlier nature and more frequently to be encountered from this point. The reader should not be misled by the large number of colonnaded structures following, however, to believe that these in any way outnumbered the plainer columnless type. It is commonly accepted that the colonnade is the chief characteristic of the Greek Revival, especially in the public mind and the author has therefore stressed this type with its more diverse presentations in preference to monotonous repetition of the box house.

We are now on the "glory road" with classic canons the natural and obvious form to use interspersed, nevertheless, with enough individuality to avoid any stilting of character.