Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 153
otogretph by Frank Loitstns Figure 98. The stairs at ClivedenAfter 1763 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY first time, it curves around without any intermediate newels. In the plan madefor his house by the painter Copley in 1771/ it is the landing which is semicircular.Stairs themselves laid out on an arc ot a… … Frotn a fliotc^fafih by Frank Consign Figure 99. The stairs of the Jeremiah L.ee house. 1768 Staircases of later date it is customary to have curved easings, which first appearat Tuckahoe, Rosewell, and the McPhedris house. Similar curves were often in-troduced in the horizontal rail on the…
