The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . te wing, though one of these lifts rises at the south endof the western corridor, rather than at the west end of the northern. A pri-vate staircase leads from a hallway, opening off the eastern corridor, to themain floor of the House; and there is another to the west, similar alike tothe two which lead to the private lobby of the Senators. These are of marblewith the exception of the railings, which are wrought in bronze. Brumidimade the attractive designs of the eagle, deer and cherubs for all of the rail-ings upon paper; they were the
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . te wing, though one of these lifts rises at the south endof the western corridor, rather than at the west end of the northern. A pri-vate staircase leads from a hallway, opening off the eastern corridor, to themain floor of the House; and there is another to the west, similar alike tothe two which lead to the private lobby of the Senators. These are of marblewith the exception of the railings, which are wrought in bronze. Brumidimade the attractive designs of the eagle, deer and cherubs for all of the rail-ings upon paper; they were then modeled by Charles Baudin, a Frenchman,and cast in Philadelphia. The drawings were after the Italian school, butBaudin changed them into the French style in working up the models, analteration principally noticeable in the different way in which the scrolls andflowers are made apparently to grow out of one another. Archer, Warner,Miskey & Co. received $22, for the four railings; no one seems toknow what the artists were paid for the 13 THE HOUSE WING
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