Title

The Saul Davis Stairway at Table Rock

Date

ca 1860

ca 1975 (reproduction)

Creator

Campbell, Donna Marie

Extent

25.1 x 35.46 cm

Is Part Of

Watercolour Collection

Description

Horseshoe Falls to the left ;

en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; research by George Seibel ; artistic recreation from a stereograph in the collection of the Earl W Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, NY ; William Forsyth in 1818 erected a set of stairs under a roof to facilitate access to the view of the Falls at the foot of the great pitch under the river bank. Frances M Trollope wrote in 1832 "...during our stay we saw the commencement of another staircase intended to rival in attraction that at present in use (probably Forsyth's)..The erection of the central shaft at this spiral stair was a most tremendous operation and made me sick and giddy as I watched it. After it had been made fast at the bottom, the carpenters swung themselves off the rocks by means of ropes to the beams which traversed it and as they sat across them, in the midst of the spray and the uproar, I thought I had never seen life perilled so wantonly". This stairway was built by Saul Davis after he built the Table Rock House in 1854 ;

Type

Still Image

Medium

Watercolour

Subject

Table Rock

Elevators

Niagara Gorge

Niagara Falls - Horseshoe Falls

Location

Canada

Canada - Ontario

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102822

locator

WC 9

Publisher

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Date Created

2005-02-24

Date Modified

2005-02-24