It may take a while, but the stairs will be undergoing a much deserved and hopefully breathtaking transformation in the next couple of months. The design of the staircase is a floating staircase because of the lack of support underneath the top half of the stairs. 
Years of neglect have left it with peeling paint and chipped wood and not much of the original charm. Because of lead paint concerns, this will be a razor scrapper job done one rise and one run at a time. It originally had a walnut type finish, so that is what I will put back on. The woodwork underneath will also be scraped and finished so that it looks something like the newel post and I hope that by the end of the summer, the downstairs will be looking like it did 140 years ago.
This step has had the rise and run scraped. One down, 16 to go! Wish me luck!
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