Loretto Chapel
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The Loretto Chapel is a former Roman Catholic church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, that is now a privately owned museum and a wedding chapel.
The chapel in 2006
The Loretto Chapel spiral staircase
Spiral stairs of Gdańsk Town Hall
Loretto Academy in 1904, including the chapel at center
Stairs
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Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances. This is achieved as a diagonal series of horizontal
Loretto Chapel
…or central pole. The staircase is built mostly out of wood and is held together by wooden pegs, with no glue, nails or other hardware used. The inner stringer consists of seven wooden segments joined together with pegs, while the longer outer stringer has nine segments. The exact wood used to build the staircase…
Steps with two anti-slip rubber strips and small nosings
Neo-Baroque stairs with simple stone balustrade
Staircase with double bullnose and two volutes. An intermediate landing is part of this U-shaped stair.
Handrail and carved balusters