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There's a grim irony in seeing all those mobility aids in the previous pics, followed by a staircase...

Yes!!! I was just thinking that myself.

I love this shot!

Beautiful shot.

REMINDS ME OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

These old staircases and bannisters are really worth a lot of money. If you ever watch This Old House, they recycle them.

There is a place upstate NY called Pioneer Millworks that buys old timber. I use them when we knock down old buildings they buy the old beams. I am working on a project now in which they will pay us $90,000.00 to take the white pine beams. They have there own mill They make flooring out of the beams.

I love old wooden staircases.

these places always had the best staircases. Great shot!

Here I am a newcomer, but I was looking for pictures to fool around with with my Trial edition of Photoshop, and I encountered your site. Your photos are AMAZING, and really capture the moods in the scenery. This shot is awesome, mainly because of the lighting and shadows amongst the irony of having stairs where there are so many wheelchairs. (Wonder if that was ever blocked off to the children or something such a long itme ago.)

cant you picture people yearning to use those stairs....

yeah...and coming down them stylishly too.

Very Beautiful. I love your staircase shots!

Makes me want to go up those stairs!!

Shadows and colors! Just brilliant!

these steps remind me of the first time i climbed stairs.. great stairs

I wonder if the elongated window pane was original artistry or was it added and the frame adjusted. The other windows seem very plain. Size of available replacement glass may have determined the outcome. surely theres a story to it.

this pic looks really cool makes me want to hop in my car and go ghost hunting lol nice love it

Look at the slow incline of the stairs. The angle is quite low.

This is a beautiful shot. Do you know, was this in an old dormitory?

Back in the time I went to our state school for the blind, mid/late 80 early 90sfor their summr school program, the old admin/dorm/dinning room building had several floors, ground, which was at the street level. They had admin offices and the like there, then a "basement" that was at garden level I think it is called. The activity room and dinning room nd a bunch of other rooms I never learned the use for were there... Then above the "ground" floor you had floors 1 and 2, which confused me at first because clearly anyone looking at the building could count 3 levels, plus the garden level... At any rate. There were stairs going from the garden level up to the top floor. Not straight up ut short flight a landig, short flight, a landing, ect. ect. We were always housed on the top floor of the building, even the SMH kids some of whome couldn't do the stairs. Which is hy we had the creeky old intreeguingly smelling rattletrap elevator... This thing was so old you had to pull a gate across before it would go anyplace and you couldn't fit many people on it. This is how the SMH kids went down to dinner or anyplace that as off the op floor. Execpt, that s, in case of fire or emergency, neither of hichever took plac hen I as here. If ever.
They, the school, ere required by law to have this thing, some contraption on wheels that you'd restrain a non-amblulatory person into and I guess slide down the steps. I nver got to see this thing in acton but did sk about it and hat was what I was told.

please tell me why I love this so much???