Negative, Film

Frame # 11 of 16 (#2-#17) from 35mm color negatives, all various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. This view show an example of excessive foliage concealing the unique set of Germanic architectural features that would, a few decades later, earn the house and adjacent ancillary workshop National Historic Landmark status. The only discernible features displayed here are the first-period pent roof and the non-period (1930s) gable-end roofed porch. The other 20th century feature of the house, equally obtrusive and equally obscuring important architectural details, was the 1930s porch on the southern eaves wall, removed in 2011 [see record KR11PH3], revealing the impressive surviving details and allowing restoration of the original features destroyed or damaged by the massive porch appended to the house in the 1930s. Updated, Laurence Ward, February, 2021