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The staircase is built mostly out of wood and is held together by wooden pegs, with no glue, nails or other hardware used. The inner stringer consists of seven wooden segments joined together with pegs, while the longer outer stringer has nine segments.
2 lut 2023 · Moreover, it was created solely with wooden pegs, with neither nails nor glue, and out of a material that is either completely unknown or not native to the region.
8 paź 2024 · In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the helix-shaped spiral staircase at Loretto Chapel has long puzzled visitors, including architects and physicists.
9 paź 2009 · To top it off, the staircase, which was made with no nails, had exactly 33 stairs. (In the bible, 33 was the age at which Jesus was crucified.) The staircase was, for the Sisters of Loretto, a ...
25 gru 2023 · The staircase, constructed from spruce—a wood rare and difficult to source in late 1800s New Mexico—did not have a single nail or conventional support beam. The steep spiral staircase, with its complete circular turns, is held together by simple wooden pegs.
27 sty 2022 · Over the course of many weeks he built the amazing structure that visitors see today: A 33-step spiraling staircase that makes two complete 360-degree turns up to the choir loft and which has no central column for support.
2 maj 2007 · Does a stairway at Santa Fe's Loretto Chapel miraculously stand despite having no discernable means of support?
