Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . irs at Cliveden initiated the tour de force of a double spiral After 1763 . 11- • • in its mam newel, the inner one twisting in the opposite direction from the outer, and this was imitated in many later NewEngland houses. Elsewhere the later newels were generally left plain, as they wereconcealed by surrounding balusters supporting the end of a hand-rail which termi-nated in a horizontal scroll. This is first found at Westover; it became commonafter 1750. Even when this device was not used, the newel after 1730 was com-
Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic . irs at Cliveden initiated the tour de force of a double spiral After 1763 . 11- • • in its mam newel, the inner one twisting in the opposite direction from the outer, and this was imitated in many later NewEngland houses. Elsewhere the later newels were generally left plain, as they wereconcealed by surrounding balusters supporting the end of a hand-rail which termi-nated in a horizontal scroll. This is first found at Westover; it became commonafter 1750. Even when this device was 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 the Miles Brewton house it makes a semicircle between the landingnewels, although the front of the landing is straight; in the Chase house, for the 1 § XXV. Of Turning Swash-Work, pp. 229-230, and pi. 18. I30. 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 themselves laid out on an arc of a circle do not occur before the Revolution. The hand-rail at Graeme Park and Stenton, as in seventeenth-century Colonialhouses and as in the Ashmolean, runs directly against the newel posts, but in fine
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