A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 358
ight is often used as synonymous504 STAIR with stair in designating tlie structure con-tained Ixtween two tioors ; this use is onlycorrect, htuvever, wiien no laiidiugs inteiTene.No absohite distinction can he made betweenstairs and hidders ; a simpler form of construc-tion or a steeper jjitch… … Cathedbal of Sens (Yonxk). Staiki ase tjTransition; l:iTH Ce.ntlry. (see subtitles); as regards their general plan,they are designated as quarter-turn, half-turn,three-quarter-turn, and one-turn, implying that,in their progress from top to bottom, they passthrough one, two, three, or four right…
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