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 156
>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… … From (I /;.v/,>i-j .j//( 1-y Fi-.titi Cousins Figure 99. The stairs of the Jeremiah Lee house. 1768 Staircases of later date it is customary to have curved casings, which first appearat Tuckahoe, Rosewell, and the McPhedris house. Similar curves were often in-troduced in the horizontal rail on…
