. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XLVIII.—Detail of Newel and Twisted Balusters, Oak Plate XLIX.—A Doorway in the Hall, Oak Hill. Interior Woodwork duplicated this graceful sweep of the ramped balustrades afford slender turned newelsand balusters of several attractive patterns, whilethe stairway of the David P. Waters house indicatesthe charm of simple inch-square balusters whenapplied to a stairway the very form of which providesits own ornament. Almost invariably some form ofscroll brackets under the overhang of the tread lenta note
. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work . Plate XLVIII.—Detail of Newel and Twisted Balusters, Oak Plate XLIX.—A Doorway in the Hall, Oak Hill. Interior Woodwork duplicated this graceful sweep of the ramped balustrades afford slender turned newelsand balusters of several attractive patterns, whilethe stairway of the David P. Waters house indicatesthe charm of simple inch-square balusters whenapplied to a stairway the very form of which providesits own ornament. Almost invariably some form ofscroll brackets under the overhang of the tread lenta note of individuality, and sometimes this wassupplemented by the application of some form ofrestrained yet highly effective decoration along thesecond-floor level, such as the fret in the Pierce-Johonnot-Nichols house, and the applied festoonedgarlands and oval florets in the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers house. Built during the days of our maritime supremacy,many houses, of which Oak Hill is an example,were influenced considerably in their decorative de-tails by the shipbuilding industry. This is seenparticularly in the stairwa
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