Circa 1919, from the Grand Staircase, the four curved 'stairway' sections and two straight 'landing' sections with scrolls throughout each centered by a different medallion featuring various flowers and animals, including a squirrel, dove, turkey, swan, rose, fruiting cornucopia, fish, songbird, hawk, heron, rabbit, deer, a bird feeding her young, birds in various stages of flight, a bird looming over a locust, a bird and other stylized fanciful birds of prey; the railings with a wooden banister, the inner 'stairway' railings terminating in ornate openwork planters.
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There has been much documentation of the life of Charles and Pauline Morton Sabin and Bayberry Land. An architectural documentation and recordation report of Bayberry Land prepared by the Institute of Long Island Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 2004, lists the following books and journals among some of the many sources of information regarding the Sabins, Bayberry Land and the architects, artists and designers who worked on it:
The Architectural Review, November 1919
Arts & Decoration, December 1919, Joseph A. Judd Publishing Co., New York, NY
Arts & Decoration, September 1920, Joseph A. Judd Publishing Co., New York, NY
The American Country House, Clive Aslet, 1990, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Pioneers of American Landscape Design, Charles A. Birnbaum and Robin Karon, 2000, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY
The Treatment of Interiors, Eugene Clute, 1926, Pencil Point, Inc., New York, NY
Trees and Shrubs for Landscape Effects, Marian Cruger Coffin, 1940, Scribner's, New York, NY
Architectural Monographs No. 19 CFA Voysey, Stuart Durant, 1992, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY
Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940, Robert MacKay, Anthony Baker and Carol Traynor, 1997, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in Association with WW Norton & Company, New York, NY
American Homes of To-Day, Augusta Owen Patterson, 1924, MacMillan, NY