Nothing screams broken neck like soapy marble stairs. I can’t imaging climbing them in the rain.
With no handrails, apparently.
That’s not soap, they’re holystoning the porch.
Holystoning is done to wood, not marble.
Maybe, but in the rain those would be slick. That was my point.
Those are the cleanest, newest stoops I have ever seen.
When new stoops are built, they already look more worn out than this.
Apparently they’re marble!
Like… solid slabs??
Worth more than the whole house.
No, blocks right 4ft long 10 wide and 6 or 8" tall.
Under the steps given the age might be a cold room like my house and many like it from the same time period.
Found an article about them from a few years ago. https://www.wypr.org/2021-12-06/a-stone-cold-mystery
Probably because they’re not built from marble blocks. Was marble not a premium construction material back then?
Any extra information on the photo? The trees in the background would likely be Patterson Park.
The picture has been making rounds, but I just found a research article that uses it while talking about the East side of Baltimore.
Alright, alright… we’ll build you some stairs, but NO railings!
Is this AI generated?
Didn’t look like it
Yeah but like those stairs just scream unsafe. Like weirdly unsafe.
Even for the 50’s.
Why are there no handrails?
AI is getting pretty good.
edit but this isn’t AI, it’s just weirdly unsafe. https://mdhsphotographs.tumblr.com/post/6113325836/scrubbing-the-white-marble-steps-baltimore
Looks like Hamsterdam from the wire
Was marble cheap back then or something? Those stairs are worth thousands of dollars each.
