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"Alumni Art Decorates Gannett Corporate Headquarters," RIT Alumni Monthly (Rochester, NY) (December 1977).
"Award for Kansas," Holton Recorder (Holton, KS), December 19, 1977.
Bill Beeney, "Functional, Efficient Layout with Accent on Craftsmanship," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), January 23, 1977.
Wendell Castle and David Edman, The Wendell Castle Book of Wood Lamination (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980).
Sarah Booth Conroy, "Sculpting Furniture Layer by Layer," The Washington Post, October 15, 1978.
Sally Eauclaire, "Fairchild Award to Castle," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), November 19, 1977.
_____, "Wendell Castle: Wood, Form, and Space," Craft Horizons (December 1978).
Focus on Brockport magazine, The College at Brockport: State University of New York, Brockport, NY, April 1978.
Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959-1979 (New York: Gregory R. Miller and Co., 2012).
Bev Hafner, "The New Renaissance of Art in Business," Rochester Business Magazine (Rochester, NY) (November 1988).
Sherry Jacobson, "Gannett's Staying Downtown — in a Crafty Style," City/East (Rochester, NY), October 21, 1976.
_____, "Stairway in the Sky," City/East (Rochester, NY), October 21, 1976.
Dorothy Kamm, "Castle's Fantasy Furniture," Nit & Wit: Chicago's Art Magazine (May/June 1983).
Ron Netsky, "Carving Out a Niche: RIT Adds 2 Craftsmen to Staff, Putting School at Forefront of Fine Arts," Democraft and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), September 7, 1984.
"News Digest: People," Rochester Review (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester) (Spring 1978).
Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovannini, Furniture by Wendell Castle (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989).
Peter Taub, "Stepping Up the Staircase Debate," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), August 26, 1985.
"Tip-Off on the Arts: Homes for Castle," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), August 29, 1985.
Mark van de Walle, "From Castle to Home," Departures (May/June 2007).
Jeannie Williams, "Gannett's New Corporate Home," Times-Union (Rochester, NY), January 10, 1977.Note Type
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The staircase, surmounted by a 10-foot-high stylized whale tail inspired by a 1930s local building, connected the 24th and 25th floors of One Lincoln First Square, Gannett's national headquaters. It took six months to build and weighs approximately 3,000 pounds. It won the University of Rochester's 1977 Lillian Fairchild Award, which annually recognizes a citizen of the Rochester area for the finest contribution to art and literature.