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George Douglass House Restoration Project-Work Accomplished and In-Progress, 4th Quarter 2020 Fourth quarter work in 2020 included interior and exterior woodwork, and interior painting of replicated elements fitted into place, providing “stops” for finish plastering to begin in January. The interior carpentry and joinery was concentrated in the first floor
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Work Progress in George Douglass House, April 1-June 30, 2020 During this 2d quarter period, interior plastering and woodwork joinery continued intermittently as weather, planning details, coordination between crafts, and Pandemic restrictions permitted. Our carpenters Tom & Chris Lainhoff continued the fabrication of parlor elements, built-in corner cabi
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George Douglass House Restoration Project-Work Accomplished and In-Progress-2d Quarter 2021 Second quarter work in 2021 focused on plastering deteriorated areas, wall segments with partial or total de-lamination of original 1765 and/ or later applications, and patching voids. In the process of removing deteriorated or de-laminated plaster remnants in the or
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Work Progress in George Douglass House, January 1-March 30, 2020 During this quarterly period, interior plastering and woodwork joinery continued at an efficient and coordinated pace as weather, planning details, and Pandemic restrictions permitted. Project carpenters Tom & Chris Lainhoff fabricated major paneled elements, built-in corner cabinetry, and mol
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George Douglass House Restoration Project-Work Accomplished and In-Progress-1st Quarter 2021 First quarter work in 2021 included interior woodwork installation, and painting of original and replicated elements fitted into place, providing marginal-limits [“stops”] for finish plastering. The interior carpentry and restoration joinery continued in the first f
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The Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County, PA George Douglass House Restoration: PHMC Project ME Number 16709 Work Progress, July 1-September 30, 2020 During this 3d quarter period, concentration was focused on parlor woodwork joinery and installation, as sequence details and Pandemic restrictions permitted. Our carpenters Tom & Chris Lain
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THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST OF BERKS COUNTY, PA. Final Report On George Douglass House Restoration Project: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Agreement ME#16709; Project Beginning Date December 1, 2017; Ending Date September 30, 2021. Grantee: The Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County, PA., PO Box 245, Douglassville, Pa, 19518. Co
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George Douglass House, c. 2003, photos of the 3 original Federal-era dormers, and of the roof as dormers were gradually removed. The additional photos show the house in various periods with one or more dormers surviving on the roof, and detail photos of the surviving frontispiece, which show one of the elaborately pieced vernacular Federal design frames.
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Image #1 [photo #5579, 11/11/13] and the attached drawing dated 2/18/15, revised 3/12/15 [folder dated 4/14/15] show the two adjacent arch-form masonry vaults in the cellar of the 1765 George Douglass House against the below-grade foundation of the southern gable wall of the kitchen. Photo # 5773, 11/18/13 depicts the shared pier and triangular impost from w
View recordThe proposed replacement of the kitchen door and frame in the gable recess next to the large cooking fireplace required the Trust to investigate the vaulted support structure [photo #5775, 11/18/13] in the corner of the cellar. Located adjacent to the fireplace support vault and directly below the short doorway passage adjacent to the kitchen fireplace, this
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Series of two images showing the title page and inscription pages from a law book titled ”The Charters and Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania....” printed by Peter Miller and Company, Philadelphia, 1762. Title page indicates that this book is Volume I of a two-volume set. However, the book’s owner indicates that this particular book has Volu
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All of these drawings were executed prior to the 2017-2021 restoration campaign [see GDHRPT records in these archives for description, scope, details, and photos of the restoration project]. Larry Ward
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Series of 33 digital images depicting the masonry restoration work at the George Douglass House. The Trust’s Board of Directors resolved at its May, 2011 meeting to restore the three components of the George Douglass mansion and store structures to their historical and architectural ”period of significance” [”period”]. The consensus of historians and cons
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Architectural floor-plan drawings of the first and second floors in the George Douglass House. these drawings were included as part of the group of documents sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National register Status for the Douglass House. Numbers and a
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Site map drawing of the plot on which the George Douglass House sits. This drawing was included as part of the group of documents sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National Register Status for the Douglass House. Numbers and arrows on drawings correspond
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Series of 35 pages that describes the location, ownership, history, architecture, etc. of the George Douglass House. This is the main application sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National Register Status for the Douglass House. Photos included with this
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Series of 43 digital photographs (15 exterior and 28 interior) of the George Douglass House. Photos were included with the offical registration forms submitted to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. See GDHTX2--1006.01.015 for the full text of the original registration forms. See G
View recordIn a Sept 15, 1997 manuscript note to Dr. Donald A. Shelley, then a Trust Board member, Theresa Beard--a Trust founder, former President, and long-time Board member--reported that she “spoke to a man who said he did not think there was a butcher shop in the Douglass Mansion but when he was very young…about 10 years old…he remembered the Slaughter House and s
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Receipt / Payment received from Mr Martin[????] for Jacob Biglitti Dated 1827 August 28, of a list of materials; which was received by George Douglass on 9 Janurary 1828 "infull"; signed off by Jacob Becket? Mr. Ma[????] (missing text) D for Jacob Biglitti 1827 Aug 28 for Boarding Inn Jacob Biglitte 24 at 25 C[redit] Day D* 6- for D Jm
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Receipt indicated a payment was received in full Inscriped is: Mr. George Douglass (Jr) Bot (Bought) of John Bunn 458 feet pine boards cut at fifteen dollars per thousand for Mr. Sheepshank 6 -- 89 (=$6.89) Received the Above in full John Bunn
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Black & white photographic print of early addition at George Douglass House from a southwest perspective view. Note on reverse of photo says "copyright [symbol] Steve Myers Studios 1990."
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Photo #21 shows a stone arch in the cellar aligned diagonally to support the corner fireplace in the room above that served as the original "Amity Store" starting in the late 1760s [photo #15, 2/23/22, shows the fireplace arch as recently restored by setting replacement "voussoirs" (arch-stones) at the proper radius on a "centering frame", in place until the
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Architectural Drawing of basement floor plan with inset elevations "A" and "B" marked on general basement plan. Drawing depicts proposed measures for stabilizing the George Douglass House.
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Photocopies of sixteen handwritten pages outlining: 1) the genealogy of Douglass family--starting with George Douglass Senior's father, Andrew, and the 4 generations after George Sr. 2) properties owned by George Sr. 3) a 1799 inventory inventory of the George Sr. estate 4) a partial transcription of George Junior's 1832 will 5) and a chain of tittle
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