Stair from second floor

From the second floor, the family/servants' stair rises around an open light well in three flights to the fifth floor. The openness of the stair was in part due to Cabot's efforts to provide natural light into the middle of the house from a large skylight in the ceiling of the fifth-floor stairwell.

The ventilation shaft is equally vertical in its aspect, but only four feet in diameter. This view looks up from the third floor. Its walls are a pale green, and still retain their original stencilling.