Illustration 404 shows the rear of the stairway, with the front door, in the house built in 1795 by Harrison Gray Otis, in Boston. It is now the property and headquarters of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, having reached that safe haven after the descent from an elegant and fashionable residence to a lodging house. It has now been restored with great care to much of its original appearance. The illustration shows the fine boxing of the stairs and the ornamentation of the stair-ends. The balusters are twisted and end in a turn without a newel post. [Illustration: Illus. 405.—Mantel in Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston, 1795.] Illustration 405 shows a mantel in the Otis house of painted wood, with the space above the shelf taken by two sets of doors, one sham, of wood, and the other of iron, which opens into a safe. It is difficult to imagine why this transparent device was placed in such a conspicuous place. [Illustration: Illus. 406.—Stairs in Robinson House, Saunderstown.] Illustration 406 shows a very good stairway in the Robinson house in Saunderstown, R. I. It has two turns, and the panelling on the side wall has a mahogany rail which turns with the one above the twisted balusters. [Illustration: Illus. 407.—Stairs in Allen House, Salem, 1770.] [Illustration: Illus. 408.—Balusters and Newel of Stairs at “Oak Hill,” Peabody.] The return of the stairs is panelled beneath, and at each corner of the turn of the balusters is a large post like the newel, which extends below the stairs and is finished in a twisted flame-like ornament. The beautiful stairway with panelled ends and boxing in Illustration 407 is in the Allen house in Salem. The balusters are particularly good. A section of the fine stairway at “Oak Hill,” Peabody, Massachusetts, in Illustration 408, gives the detail of the twisted balusters and newel so often seen in the old seaport towns. Each one of the balusters, of which there are three upon a stair, has a different twist, and the newel is a twist within a twist, the outer spiral being detached from the inner one. The balusters are painted white, and the rail and newel are of mahogany. [Illustration: Illus. 409.—Stairs in Sargent-Murray-Gilman House, Gloucester, 1768.] Illustration 409 shows the staircase in the Sargent-Murray-Gilman house in Gloucester, and Illustration 410 shows a mantel in the same house, which was built in 1768, by Winthrop Sargent, for his daughter when she married Rev. John Murray, who was the founder of the Universalist church in America. Later, the house was occupied by the father of Rev. Samuel Gilman, the author of “Fair Harvard.” [Illustration: Illus. 410.—Mantel in Sargent-Murray-Gilman House, 1768.] [Illustration: Illus. 411.—Mantel in Kimball House, Salem, 1800.]