. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XLVI.—Winder in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers Plate XLVII.—Stairway at Second Floor Level, _ Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers House; Detail of Newel and Stair Ends. Interior Woodwork into a room rather than into the yard or the balustrade is considerably elaborated, asimple molded baseboard runs about the walls andup the stairway, but oftener there is a dado like thatin the David P. Waters hall. The paneled wain-scot of the pre-Revolutionary builders appears notto have appealed to Mclntire, although somepane
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XLVI.—Winder in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers Plate XLVII.—Stairway at Second Floor Level, _ Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers House; Detail of Newel and Stair Ends. Interior Woodwork into a room rather than into the yard or the balustrade is considerably elaborated, asimple molded baseboard runs about the walls andup the stairway, but oftener there is a dado like thatin the David P. Waters hall. The paneled wain-scot of the pre-Revolutionary builders appears notto have appealed to Mclntire, although somepaneling occurs in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogershouse. In long halls the stairway takes the form of a singlestraight run, as at Oak Hill, or of a straight runto a landing only three or four steps below the second-floor level where the direction of the flight this landing, as in the Cook-Oliver and Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols houses, a beautiful Palladian win-dow admits light and provides an effective featureof the architectural scheme. At opposite sides of thewindow in bygone days often stood a floor clock anda t
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