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Gracious entry portals were as important to yesterday’s home builders as they should be to today’s. Page through this website, and you’ll see dozens of ways to make your main entrance attractive and inviting, from simple shed-roof door hoods to elegant colonnades. Here are a couple of illustrations with ideas that seem just right for country homes - rose covered columns from an 1880’s farm journal, above, and comfortable, useful front-door benches from the 1852 book The Architecture of Country Houses, by Andrew Jackson Downing.