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the best white pine, and the treads of the best Georgia yellow pine. And 

 the underside of the stairs will be furred ready for plasterino-. 



The stairs will rise from the ground floor to a point four feet (4 feet) 

 below the under side of the roof timbers, say a height of forty-three feet 

 (43 feet) or thereabout. At this height the upper platforms or landings 

 will be placed. At one end of each of these a door will be placed which 

 \vill communicate with the front towers. A spiral staircase will be car- 

 ried up from the level of these upper platforms to the top of the higher of 

 the two front towers. This staircase will be six feet (6 feet) in diameter," 

 and will be partitioned off in one corner of the tower. It will have 

 proper platf'rms and doors of communication to the different stories of the 

 tower, of which there will be four (4) above the roof of the main build- 

 ing. This staircase will open on the roof of the tower, which will be 

 nearly flat, and is to be used as a place of observation. 



A similar staircase will extend from the same level upwards to the floor 

 of the upper story of the lower central front tower. 



Both of the above stairs will have treads and risers of yellow pine, with 

 handsome coves and nosings. They will be ceiled in with -|-inch 

 white pine plank, will have windows in the partitions for light, and will 

 have neat 3 by 4-inch black walnut hand rails, supported by iron elbows. 



The principal rear stairs, about twenty-three feet (23 feet) in height, of 

 rise and of the form and dimensions shown on plans, wdl be finished in 

 a manner exactly similar, and of the same materials and workmanship, 

 as the principal front stairs described above. 



Staircases in cam'panile toroer. — The interior of the campanile tower 

 will be eleven feet (11 feet) square, and will be occupied, at the level of 

 the museum floor, with a staircase having steps four feet (4 feet) in width, 

 and a well three feet square in the centre. This staircase will lead from 

 the ground floor of the museum to its gallery, and have steps, risers, bal- 

 usters, newels, coves, brackets, &c., of a similar character to the principal 

 stairs ijtbove specified. Above the level of the gallery floor a small stair- 

 way two feet six inches in width will be carried m flights, per direction 

 of architect, to the upper story of the tower. The stairway will be par- 

 titioned off from the tower by joists, and in the partition doors will be 

 framed and set to communicate with the two upper stories of the tower. 



Siaircdses of octagonal toivr. — A winding staircase with steps three feet 

 in width, having a clustered column in the centre, will lead in this 

 tower from the floor of the library to the gallery. The steps will be sup- 

 ported against the wall and the central column by iron stringers, and the 

 hand-rail wdl be of black walnut. The sides of the tower will be wains- 

 coated up to the under side of the hand-rail, and the central column will 

 be formed of clusters of circubir columns of wood. The wain.^coat and 

 columns will be painted four coats, and column sanded to represent 

 marble. A hand-rail of black walnut, supported on handsome iron elbows, 

 will be carried around the column. The ceiling of the octagonal tower 

 over this staircase will be groined. A staircase, similar in all respects, 

 and similarly furnished, will lead from the floor to the gallery of the mu- 

 seum. Above this line a smaller staircase will be earned to the summit 

 of the tower. All the treads and risers in these stairways will be of the 

 best yellow pine. 



On each side of the rear entrance to the museum a flight of steps 

 three feet wide will lead from the ground floor to the gallery, with balus- 



