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 258
tury, taper to nothing against ^35 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE a newel post, but surrounded an open well of greater or less size. The first stairsof this sort in America seem to have been those of the Bingham house in Phila-delphia, where the self-supporting broad stairway of fine white marble .… … Figure 196. Vestibule of the Woodlands, Philadelphia. 1788Courtesy of Ogden Codman had, in the Barrell house, ingeniously fitted a double stair, chiefly with straightruns, in a hall with semicircular ends (figures 120 and 194), used, in the ThomasRussell house, Charlestown, a stair about a broad…
