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Black and white photographic print showing northwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after roof replacement and restoration of masonry walls--view prior to removal of 19th-century fenestration{1} and installation of casement windows. Details include: pargeted masonry remnants; restored brick gable-end chimney; replaced wooden-shingle roof; vaca
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Black and white photographic print showing northwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after roof replacement, installation of vertical hung-sash window frame in second story of north [left] bay of west eaves wall{1}, and restoration of masonry walls and brick gable-end chimney [left]. Details include: pargeted masonry remnants, restored gable-en
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Mouns Jones House, brief paragraph re: general history & datestone (1886) Text from page 945 of the book ”History of Berks County” by Morton Montgomery, copyright 1886 by Everts and Peck, Philadelphia. Page begins by giving background information on Swedish settlement in Amity. Paragraph beginning ”Old Swede Building” talks briefly about the history of
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Black & white photographic print showing eastern doorway of Mouns Jones House. Details include: This photo is c. 1968-70 (see c. 1967 photo in record MJHPH73 before re-opening this doorway), after removal of the 19th century masonry in-fill closing this doorway when the interior hall-parlor partition was moved to enlarge the parlor. The original 1716 oak
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Black & white photographic print showing eastern doorway of Mouns Jones House. Details include: This photo is c. 1968-70 (see c. 1967 photo in record MJHPH73 before re-opening this doorway), after removal of the 19th century masonry in-fill closing this doorway when the interior hall-parlor partition was moved to enlarge the parlor. The original 1716 oak
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Series of 13 images (4 black & white photographic prints, 5 color digital images, one HABS data sheet, and one field notes elevation drawing) showing details of the west [river-side] elevation of the Mouns Jones House. Additional images illustrate similar houses and architectural details described in the text references to those images. Details include:
View recordWithin five years after settling on the banks of the Schuylkill River on their "patented" lands north of the Manatawny Creek, Mouns Jones and his neighbors petitioned [see record #MJTXT5] the Royal Governor in 1709 for a road for the convenient passage to and from their "plantations", indicating both their individually surveyed farmlands and the agrarian set
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Black and white photographic print showing plaque affixed to the southeastern gable wall of the Mouns Jones House (see record #MJHPH60 for views of the wall showing this plaque). Among the profusion of names ascribed to Mouns Jones, "Monce" is seldom seen in the published documents. More common is "Mouns", "Mountz", and "Mounce", all phonetic distortions
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MJHPH62: Description Two versions of a postcard, color and in black and white (see NOTE for more information on the images): From Morton Montgomery's 1886 History of Berks County: "Mounce Jones, an early Swede, built the first stone house in 1716 along the Schuylkill River. This is the oldest structure in Berks County. Mounce Jones and Ingabo, his wife, t
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Photocopy of a photocopied page from a Berks County [Philadelphia County at the time entered in the records] Quarter Sessions Office records book. Highlighted section discusses Mouns ["Mounce"] Jones' 1727 Will, in which he devises his house and land to his son, Andrew [Andreas] Jones. Although some accounts state that Mouns Jones acquired 500 Acres out
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Photocopy of a photocopied page from a Berks County Quarter Sessions Office{1} records book . Highlighted line begins discussion of a petition to build a road from ”Edward Lane’s” to “Mannitawny”. Peition was made by Henry Sprogel and ”Mounce Jones” on behalf of themselves and others. In the full text of the Petition, not transcribed in this abstract, Mounce
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View of Mouns Jones reconstructed bake oven, from photographic print, showing contractor Robert Landis at left, Theresa Beard (middle), and worker. “See record #MJHPH39 for detail photo of closed-up aperture prior to re-construction of bake oven.”
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Digital photograph showing frame and two-over-two replacement casement window in the first floor of the west eaves wall, in the central bay, below date-stone. This 20th century window occupied the upper-left corner of the original 18th century door opening, now [2016] restored as doorway passage approximately centered under the date-stone in the river-facin
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A series of three photographic views (image #1 is a digital image and #2 and 3 are color photographic prints) showing pre-restoration northwestern perspective views of the Mouns Jones House after the collapse of the roofing and flooring in the 1950s. Image #1 is a digital copy of a photographic print [Stauffer #1000], published here with the generous
View record![Image #1: old [right] & re-constructed [left] jambs of doorway in re-center](/media/74a5a6ee-7bac-5ff9-9965-6d85a95d303a/thumbnail)
Image #1, Photo #49, 9/3/18 shows the re-constructed jambs for the doorway re-centered in the western-facing eaves wall. Image #2 is a re-composed photo showing the relative arrangement and proportions of the fenestration in the same wall, with marginally cantilevered lintels drawn in [not to scale] spanning the doorway and window openings. Laurenc
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Black and white photographic print showing east elevation view of the Mouns Jones House after 1965-1972 restoration. Details include: doorway and fenestration restored to interpreted 18th-century forms and details; gable-end chimney; corner chimney [left]; replaced wooden-shingle roof; rebuilt random rubble masonry after removal of pargeting remnants; re
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Black and white photographic print showing east elevation view of the Mouns Jones House after restoration of second-story casement windows, re-opening doorway through the first-floor wall and installing door and frame at the location documented in MJHPH73--1000.01.078 and other photos showing the vertical masonry joint lines of the early doorway. Details
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Black and white photographic print showing northeast perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after restoration of top courses of stonework, new roof, restoration of 19th-century brick (right gable-end on roof-ridge) chimney [later restored to random rubble masonry], re-opening of centered doorway, restoration of stone gable-end corner chimney [left], and r
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Grayscale photograph, southeast perspective view of partially restored Mouns Jones house. Penned inscription on verso reads: “Mouns Jones House.” Masonry has been structurally stabilized and restored. New wooden shingle roof has been completed. Window restoration is incomplete. Central doorway in eaves wall has not yet been re-opened. Laurence Ward,
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Digital photographic print showing window located on the second floor of the west elevation.
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Digital photographic print showing replacement window located on the second-floor of the west elevation.
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Black & white detail photograph of 2d storey south bay of north-east eaves wall with two red marker circles. Pencil inscription on verso reads: "Mouns Jones House showing northeast corner -- with corner chimney drip course impression of roof line on gable end. Showing small, possibly original{1} window frame on second floor west end. Frame set back from wall
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Digital photographic print showing perspective view of south and east elevations of the Mouns Jones house. Restored architectural elements include: random rubble masonry; corner chimney; bake oven; gable-end chimney; casement windows; and re-opened central doorway. See restored elevation photo of this eaves wall in record #MJHPH45. See also Sheet #1A in t
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Black and white photographic print of the post 1965-1970 restoration south elevation view of the Mouns Jones House. Ink note on verso reads: "Mouns Jones House before pointing showing marker placed by Hist. Soc. of Berks." Shows remnants of 19th-century pargeting; corner chimney; six-pane ["light"] attic casement window in the same configuration as shown
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