Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 155
ed, the newel after 1730 was com-monly set out beyond the line of the hand-rail, which curved to it. That of theRoger Morris house, set in front of the lower step, is a rare exception. In the lastyears before the Revolution there was a tendency to round the turns of the balus-trade also. At the… … THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY first time, it curves around without any intermediate newels. In the plan madefor his house by the painter Copley in 1771,1 it is the landing which is semicircular.Stairs themselves laid out on an arc of a circle do not occur before the Revolution. The hand-rail at Graeme…
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