middle of the century they had reached inland to effect the new buildings being erected in Lan- caster County. The new architectural publications were being used, and there is considerable evidence of their influence on the architecture of early Lancaster. A sense of proportions was being used, and floor

in Pennsylvania, known as Lancaster County, has developed into the "Garden Spot of Amer- ica."' Lancastrians, whether native or adopted, pride themselves on a past steeped on heroic actions and of their forefathers' participa- tion and contributions in the shaping and guiding of not only their county

. ROCK FORD FOUNDATION �is a usually modest and generally satisfactory way to preserve physical survivals from the past that would otherwise fall victim to the realty spec- ulator and the bulldozer. Lancaster was fairly early in the field with the acquisition and careful restoration of Wheatland and its

Clement Bates Grubb Builds a House on Lime Street (Editor's Note: We are indebted to James Rawle of Philadelphia for un- covering these notes from Grubb's Account Book in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.) Building a house on a square of ground purchased of Ann M. Eveans. At the suggestion of