Excerpt from The Architectural Record, Vol. 3: July, 1893 July, 1894
The architects of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are almost alone in hav ing gone back to Colonial times for their models, and the result has vindi cated them very handsomely. Inde pendence Hall is not a beautiful build ing, but for the purpose of a World’s Fair its historical interest outweighs its architectural disadvantages, and the modifications the architects have made in it are faithful to the spirit of the original. The reproduction for the State building of Massachusetts of a well-known Colonial mansion, in the Hancock house, is about the most dis tinguished success of the whole series. It has a positive architectural as well as a positive historical interest and in several important respects it sets a model for current domestic building. While it was impossible to make it congruous with all its surroundings, it is in perfect keeping with those of its immediate surroundings that were un der the control of its projectors. The inclosure and the quaintness of the old fashioned garden explain to us the avidity with which Hawthorne seized upon such scanty materials of romance as the New England of his time afforded him, and form a little chapter of Colonial history more vivid and in structive than the written page.
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