On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:32:41 -0400, (MICHELLE H.)
wrote:


The thing that is "weird" about this house, is because it has a spiral
staircase right in the MIDDLE of the small living room that leads
upstairs to a finished attic or possible 3rd bedroom or rec. room/kids
play area.

The one in back is probably for the servants.

Okay, just kidding.

And to be pedantic (but at least I'm quoting my mother, and everyone
likes a boy who quotes his mother, or maybe it was the radio, these
libary-style staircases arent' really spiral, which have a bigger
radius, usually as one goes down the stairs.

The little ones are helical. OTOH, I don't think many people know
what a helix was until Watson and Crick described DNA, so maybe they
are spiral after all. Or at least that's what everyone calls them.

Okay: spiral
1. Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed
point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
2. a helix.

So I'm both pedantic and wrong, at least the way the word is used.

Others have answered your question better than I can.


But at the back of the house, on the other side of the kitchen, there is
another regular wooden staircase that also leads to the upstairs. This
staircase is only located about 30 feet from the metal spiral staircase
thats in the middle of the living room.


The house is only 936 sq. feet of living area, so why when building this
thing, would they need to put 2 staircases about 30 feet apart from one
another that both lead to the upstairs? Why have a regular wooden
staircase located at the back of the house, and then roughly 30 feet
away, have a metal spiral staircase right in the middle of the living
room!?


We are very curious about this? Can anyone please explain why the house
would have been built like this?


Thanks!