This is the stairwell where it comes up into the second floor. We thought that taking out this overbuilt wood strapping structure would do too much damage to the old horse hair plaster underneath. Rather than be stuck with a giant holey mess that would need a tone of patching we thought we could reuse the strapping and sheet rock over it. But our desire to get back to the bones of the building got to us and Barry yanked it off the wall!! Much to our suprise half of the brick and most of the plaster DIDN'T come off with the 3 inch nails they used to put it up.