The balcony is still there, but a formal staircase has been added.

A formal staircase greeted visitors as they entered from 64th Street.

A formal staircase rises to an open landing and to a study.

Two Colombians were mounting the broad, formal staircase that led up to the second floor.

Lorn asks from the third floor landing of the formal staircase as Jerial walks slowly up one marble step after another.

Side by side they ascend the marble steps of the formal staircase.

A housemaid carrying a laundry basket stepped into the hall from the door under the formal staircase.

Two servants started down from the top of the formal staircase.

One ad, for example, shows a formal staircase in the middle of a forest.

A dozen quick steps carried him up the wide formal staircase to the second floor, opposite the room she had used as a nursery.