BANISHING THE FUNNEL STAIRWAY 



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SHORE ROCKS 

 Diving- Pier 

 in a storm. 



SHORE ROCKS 

 Diving Pier in 



the grip of 

 the Ice King-. 



feet apart on the seams. Woodwork of the upper portion of the 

 house, together with the gables, is painted a bottle green, the rest of the 

 trim being white. The eight foot overhang and this painting treat- 

 ment lower the house. 



A projecting gable forms the top, and two windows the respective 

 sides, of a panel five by ten feet, in which is fastened a copper bas-relief 

 along graffito lines of a rescue at sea, following in a way that old 

 Saxon style of exterior wall decoration. 



Windows, casement and lift, transomed and leaded, the majority 

 of plate glass, number quite two hundred and twenty-five, and there 

 are seventy-five doors and one hundred and twenty electric outlets. 



Deeply embrasured Georgian casement windows, showing the 

 heavy centre cross, light the entrance hall, whose floor is of quarry 

 tile while the vaulted ceiling is braced at twenty-five foot height by 

 cambered beams. Walls are paneled with oak in squares to ceiling 

 and the ceiling is of dark oak in Arabesque design. Set high in the 

 wall each side of the stair landing gallery are paintings. 



Off the entrance hall are coat room and lavatory, enlarged and 

 heightened by infringing on kitchen and basement, though not to the 

 detriment of either. 



Banishing the Funnel Stairway. 



In some ways, the unusual was attempted in Shore Rocks, as 

 shown in the entrance, lower stairway and second story corridor 



