sentences:  The typical town lots, at wide and deep were not conducive to the building of the stately homes desired by the more prosperous citizens of the town, although some grand mansions did begin to appear by the late 1820s.One of the first was the brick -story Federal-style Allen Glover house at the foot of Capitol street.It was one of the, if not the first neoclassical structure to appear in Marengo County.