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Stairs

  1. Steps to simple masonry cottages were often plastered brick, marble or granite without side buttresses.

  2. Steps to townhouses were often of granite with box side buttresses, also of granite.

  3. Steps to wooden buildings were wooden. Of special importance are the wood steps with wooden side buttresses found on wooden Victorian shotgun houses.

  4. Stairs to service buildings are typically wooden. These are especially important and should be maintained on detached service buildings where no original interior stair existed.

  5. Removing steps from front openings is prohibited.
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