A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 368
pe till old trailitioiis obtainof erecting solid stairs of stone at the sametime with the s\irrouiuliiig iiuisoiiry, wood notiHiiig very generally iisecl exrept in those locali-ties where it abounds and where construetion STAIR Ierliaps tlic most important jioint in consid-ering the planning of a… … in that material is traditional. Even then itis commonly treated in a massive and substan-tial way, with larger and solid jiarts put to-gether by methods of more genuine framing :even the solid step i.s not altogether unknown,cut from one piece after the manner of a stonestei) so as to form both…
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