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 155
not used, 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… … >i Piotos^aph by Fnii, 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 laneling which is semicircular.Stairs themselves laid out on an arc of a…
