Stairway to...

...not heaven, but the parking lot.

The stair inside the cupola at the Lenfest Center for the Arts at Washington and Lee leads to a bridge over Nelson St., and the parking garage beyond. The distinctive railings, with circles forming a top border, are used throughout the campus.

Top of the hill

This 1906 house on Jackson Ave. has an especially pleasing color palette, I think, particularly in combination with the lawn and brick steps.

Textures

These wooden railings on a roof terrace and stair at the corner of Jackson Ave. and White St. have an almost lace-like delicacy, in nice contrast to the very solid red-brick house next door.

For symmetry's sake

The front steps at Morris House lead to a window, instead of the door -- which is to the left.

This house, visible at the right of Cyrus McCormick in my post of two days ago, was built in the early 1840's as one of a set of four faculty residences. It is now used as a seminar and reception center, as well as guest accommodations at Washington and Lee. The designer of these varied houses made rather free with classical proportions in the porticoes, for starters, (as can be said of many such buildings in Lexington, including Washington Hall and Stono,) and you can view such deviations as charming un-academic improvisations, or provincial ignorance, (or both,) as you prefer.

(Posting rather late today, due to computer trouble.)

McCampbell Inn

The double porches and east (back) entrance of the McCampbell Inn, on Main St.

Built originally as a residence for John McCampbell in 1809, the building was enlarged several times, and its distinctive porches were added mid-19th century, before it was converted to the Central Hotel in 1907. In 1971 it was restored by the Historic Lexington Foundation, and now it goes by the name of the McCampbell Inn.

Open gate

The main gate of the Lexington Presbyterian Church, corner of Main and Nelson streets. The patterned bricks are said to be peculiar to the town.