March 2, 1936: Here’s a treasure — a drawing of the grand staircase in the Baker Block. I have seen pictures of the exterior before, but never anything of the interior. Columnist Timothy Turner writes that the staircase is worn and that two bronze Roman soldiers who held up gas lights on the top landing have been taken away. “But otherwise it remains the same,” he says.
It looks like Montmartre! Though if it were Montmartre, there’d be a really good little restaurant under the stairs at the right . . .
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