Southwest perspective view

Digital image from photograph print of DeTurk House showing perspective view of south & west elevations and 19th-century addition to left, and related detail photos showing the original door, its original hardware, and the original door with remaining red paint on stiles and rails, and white paint on panel fields; the panel moldings were blue [microscopic analysis by Matthew Mosca determined original first-period colors]. Earliest known photo of DeTurk House, c. 1900-1910. Details include: brick “oculus” [a vent opening], gable hood, pent roofs with side-lap shingles, paneled shutters, original first-floor exterior dutch door{1}, gable-end chimney, attic door (altered, with glazed sash added), 19th-century masonry addition [to left in photo], and ladder against SE corner. {1} The first painted finish on the original paneled door was red, white, and blue. Images #2 and 3 are c. 1950 photos showing the door still in place. A few years later the door was sold and installed in a house in Virginia. About 55 years later, the door [photo 67, 1/1/80] and its original hardware [photo 84, 1/1/80] were generously returned by the family of the 1950s purchaser and is currently preserved and exhibited by the Trust as an authentic and original mid-18th century architectural artifact. Laurence Ward, June 2016; updated Feb 2022