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 156
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… … From a photograph by Frank Cousins Figure 99. The stairs of the Jeremiah Lee 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 landings.…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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