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2. United States Customs House and Court House (Galveston, Texas)

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   The interior of the building is H-shaped in plan and was originally designed to provide space for the Customs Service and the Post Office. Extant original elements include the elaborate cast-iron, double-return stair leading to the second floor. The stair's ornamental newel posts have an acanthus motif and fluted shafts set on octagonal bases.

3. Newel - Wikipedia

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   A loose ball cop finial on the newel post at the base of the stairway is a plot device in the 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life. The same is used in jest in the 1989 film Christmas Vacation, in which Clark Griswold, in an emotional meltdown, cuts a loose finial off a newel post with a chainsaw. He casually exclaims, "Fixed the newel post!"

4. Nathan A. Woodworth House - Wikipedia

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   The interior features finely crafted woodwork, fireplaces with decorative tile surrounds, and a main staircase newel post with an integrated gas light fixture. [ 2 ] The house was built in 1890 for Nathan Woodworth, who was in the paper milling business in nearby Waterford ; its design appears to be an adaptation from an architectural pattern book.

5. Stairs - Wikipedia

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   A half-newel may be used where a railing ends in the wall. Visually, it looks like half the newel is embedded in the wall. For open landings, a newel may extend below the landing for a decorative newel drop. Finial: A decorative cap to the top of a newel post, particularly at the end of the balustrade.

6. Carrie Pierce House - Wikipedia

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   The interior features the historic woodwork, doors, wooden floors, Victorian fireplace surrounds, decorative crown moulding, historic light fixtures, a staircase with intact woodwork and an intact banister and balustrade that spirals up through the house’s many levels, terminating in a tall carved wood newel post with an integrated light ...

7. Valley View (Romney, West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   The interior of the Valley View house has a two-room-deep, central-hallway floor plan. [48] [50] Its wide central hallway contains a staircase from the first floor to the attic, with a wooden handrail supported with square balusters and a modest wooden turned newel post. [48] The ceilings are 10 feet (3.0 m) high.