r 130 Race Street and Number 216
South Ninth Street, the handsome scroll pattern of the latter being the
same as at the southeast corner of Seventh and Spruce streets, already
referred to, and the former being given a distinctive touch by two large
balls used as newels. Sometimes, as at Number 701 South Seventh Street,
there was only one step between the platform of the stoop and the
sidewalk, when its appearance was essentially the same as a stoop of the
first type such as that of the Wistar house.

The third type of stoop has the same broad platform before the door, but
the flight of steps is along the front of the house at one side rather
than directly in front. While these were oftener straight, as in the
case of the doorway at the northeast corner of Third and Pine streets,
already referred to, they were frequently curved, as at Number 316 South
Third Street. Both have a wrought-iron rail with the same scroll
pattern of effective simplicity, a pattern much favored in modern
adaptation. Another stoop of this type at Number 272 South American
Street is high enough to permit a basement entrance beneath the
platform. The ironwork is beautifully hand-wrought in the Florentine
manner, its elaborate scroll pattern beneath an evolute spiral band
combining round ball spindles with flat bent fillets, and the curved
newel treatment at each side adding materially to the grace of the
whole.

The fourth type of stoop has double or wing flights each side of the
platform before the door. The doorway at Number 301 South Seventh
Street, already referred to, is the most notable instance of straight
flights in Philadelphia, while that at the southeast corner of Eighth
and Spruce streets occupies the same position in respect to curved
flights. The wrought ironwork of the latter is superb. Rich in effect,
yet essentially simple in design, it has grace in every line, is not too
ornate and displays splendid workmanship. Again a spiral design is
conspicuous in the stair balustrades, and the curved newel treatment
recalls that of the foregoing stoop. The balustrade of the platform
consists of a simple diaper pattern of intersecting arcs with the
familiar evolute band above and below. The wing flight was a convenient
arrangement for double houses, as instanced by the old Billmeyer house
in Germantown, with its exceedingly plain iron handrail and straight
spindles. Of more interest is the balustrade at Number 207 La Grange
Alley with its ev