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View of wall above kitchen door after removal of exterior layer [“wythe”] of stones, which were distended and out of plumb. Stones removed from above the doorway were laid out on the ground in "mirror" position and were re-laid and "mudded in" [set and bonded in bed and joint mortar] in their original positions. Repointing of this wall segment was complet
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The inscription in image #2 is a vernacular Germanic version of the names of Johan and Debora DeTurk, as it is carved into the lintel spanning the attic doorway into the granary space, with the presumed construction date of 1767. See other DeTurk Collection records in this archive for descriptions, details, and images of the history, structure and restora
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Digital image of a drawing (with caption) that appears on page 32 of "Home Craft Course: Pennsylvania German Architecture" (volume 19 ) published by Mrs. Naaman Keyser in Kutztown, PA. and written by Richard S. Montgomery, A.I.A. Drawing depicts the carved inscription in the lintel of the south gable doorway of the DeTurk House. Image [owners’ names] appears
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Digital photographic print showing bed fracture and deflection in stone walling in cellar, later re-masoned when core-rotted summer beam [lower timber] was stabilized with a 'channel beam' insert. Image depicts conditions exisiting immediately prior to and necessitating the 2009 restoration of building. This is a low resolution image (72 ppi). L Ward,
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Black & white photographic print of DeTurk House showing a detail view of second-floor doorway, gabled pent hood, and pent roofs. Note on reverse of photo says "copyright [symbol] Steve Myers Studios 1990." Details include: gabled pent hood, hyphenated pent roof, replicated two-board attic door with moldings applied to simulate a paneled door.
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The jagged vertical crack descends from just under the joint between the east wall plate [upper left corner of photo] and the weathered horizontal oak plate tie extending 4 feet westward from the wall plate at the eaves level {1}. The darker pointing in the re-built north wall segment is left [east] of the crack in the photo, and the earlier [lighter colored
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Exterior view of north door jamb foot in one inch of water above stone sill after 2 inches of rain in 36 hours. This water level would submerge the restored brick-paved kitchen floor under seven inches of water and place the foundation wall and its exposed mortar joints in contact with more than one foot of standing water, which recedes from that level ve
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Detail view of jamb [top-center], door sill [upper center], and retaining wall blocks (left third of photo), [detail at lower left corner of DTR09PH51--1001.01.135]. Blocks along left third of photo are foundation stones of the low retaining wall and masonry abutment south of the kitchen doorway before restoration [see DTR09PH61--1001.01.145 for restored
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows first floor window frame detail in south gable wall. Details include: molded jambs and window frame lintel, pegged corner joint, shutter pintel hole.
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Digital photographic print showing hole along western grade and elevation, allowing inflow to cellar kitchen of surface drainage from long macadam driveway. Image depicts conditions existing immediately prior to and necessitating the 2009 restoration of building. This is a low resolution image.
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Exterior view of restored [original] kitchen door sill and lower portions of replacement oak jambs. The [original] stone sill was shifted 2-3 inches to the right [north] to accommodate the adjusted jamb alignments [see DTR09PH4--1001.01.124 for discussion of the effects of this relocation of the sill on the relationship between the doorway jambs, lintel, sil
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows a detail view of house's south elevation without pent roofs. Details include: outlooker remnants, coursed stone work; coursed and semi-dressed gable masonry; roughly coursed walling from plate-ties down, with pointing extruded to enhance impression of regular and rectilinear coursing
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Booklet, "This Month in Reading," April 1969, 32 pages. Page 17 lists a tour of the Oley Valley set for May 3, 1969, sponsored by the Woman's Club of Oley. The De Turk House is featured in this annual tour of historic sites. Only the cover and page 17 are presented as images here. A single image of cover and page 17 combined, suitable for printing o
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Because of the absence of interior stairs from the living space to the cellar kitchen, exterior access to the lower-grade kitchen doorway required descending a steep bank to the lower-grade. This was provided by installation of a set of stone treads on a tamped sloping sub-base and 2B crushed stone base, with boulder-size bed-stones set for stability and lev
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Summer beam in DeTurk cellar kitchen, channeled and restored to structural use between cellar cross-wall partition from root cellar and fireplace lintel, with re-purposed white oak timber inserted into core of original beam after termite-tunneled wood had been chiseled out. See archive record DTR09PH136 for detailed narrative and numerous photos of the 20
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Series of three images (one digital copy of a field notes drawing by L. Ward and two digital photographs) showing the vent grille used by blacksmith James Kieffer of Honey Brook, Chester County, PA, to fabricate the grille to the precise dimensions of the vent opening in the west wall of the root cellar, and the re-fabricated grille. The grille was installed
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Digital image of photographic print showing damage to pent roof, clay tiles, and outlookers caused by collision with garbage truck c.1974-1975. See MULTIMEDIA LINKS or additional image for reverse side of photograph.
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Digital image of photographic print showing damage to pent roof, clay tiles, and “outlookers” [cantilevered pent supports] caused by collision with garbage truck c.1974-1975. Details shown in this image include: pent roof lath, rafters, damaged tiles, pedimented hood, gable pent hood, recessed-panel door, roughly coursed masonry{n}, random-rubble eaves wa
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Digital image of photographic print showing damage to pent roof caused by collision with garbage truck c.1974-1975. Details shown in this image include: coursed masonry, pent roof lath, rafter, damaged tiles. See MULTIMEDIA LINKS or additional image for reverse side of photograph.
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B&W Digital photographic image of DeTurk House showing cellar fireplace timber lintel, shored to stabilize it from further deflection, which would have removed structural support for the masonry mass above. Image shows existing conditions immediately prior to and that necessitated the 2009 restoration of building.
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B&W Digital photographic image showing interior view of root cellar arched doorway and failing masonry jamb. Image shows existing conditions immediately prior to and that necessitating the 2009 restoration of building.
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Detail of DTR09PH70--1001.01.154, showing displaced foundation stones under kitchen window. The primary structural problem in this small building, dramatically evident in the sandy-mud mortar-residue visible in the lower-right quadrant of this photo, was the debilitating long term effects from saturation of mortar and the consequent dissolution of much of
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Detail view of degraded kitchen foundation wall during restoration. View from inside kitchen under window, rotated 90 degrees northward from DTR09PH71--1001.01.155, showing extent of mortar disintegration within the wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Letter in reply to HPTBC's Mrs. E. Robert Hottenstein from Donald D. Donohue, antique dealer of Falls Church VA, dated 08/01/1969. No copy of the letter from Mrs. Hottenstein has been found. "Letter No. 2" is printed in pencil in the upper right corner. This apparently refers to a series (numbered 1 to 6) of inquiries to various sources about the De Tu
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