Common-sense stair building and handrailing .. (1913)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co · leaf 163
startle a stranger when he firstenters. The examples offered areamong the best, but there aresome that rise above the head,and are topped off with hideousfaces or grinning skulls and otheruncanny things. BALUSTERS OF VARIOUS KINDS Before giving any designs forbalusters, it may be well to… … Fig. 7z. Fig- 74. FOURTH METHOD 163 ing the balusters, and I give a few examples arrangeddifferently in a stair having rail, string and balusterabout the same. Fig. y6 shows one of the ordinarymethods where the turnings are all of one length, andthus all the squaresrun parallel withthe handrail.…
Stair building · Hand-railing
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