Identifier: woodcarverofsale00cous (find matches)
Title: The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cousins, Frank, b. 1851 Riley, Phil M. (Phil Madison), b. 1882
Subjects: McIntire, Samuel, 1757-1811 Architecture, Domestic Decoration and ornament, Architectural Wood-carving
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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David P. Waters house, and it maybe seen on a much more ambitious scale in the oldmansion at Number 202J Essex Street, alreadyreferred to many times. These stairways of whatever type depend in largemeasure for their beauty and distinction upon theornamentation of balustrade, dado, and stair ends.Although occasionally painted white, a dark-stainedpine or mahogany molded handrail is the rule. Usu-ally it curves outward to the newel at the bottomand occasionally winds about in spiral fashion on abroad, bottom stair, suggesting the volute of theIonic order, the stair tread taking the shape of therail above, as in the David P. Waters house. Up-ward, the rail sometimes swings along from flightto flight, unbroken by newels, as in the Pierce-Johon-not-Nichols house, or again, at each landing andfloor, sweeps upward in a graceful curve to a newel,as illustrated by the back stairway of the Derby-Crowninshield-Rogers house. When accompaniedby a dado as in the Hosmer-Waters hall, its surbase (82)
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Plate XLVIII.—Detail of Newel and Twisted Balusters, Oak Hill.

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