c. 1980 Perspective views of additions to George Douglass House

Series of 3 color photographic prints of detail views of the additions on the southeast gable end of the 1765 George Douglass House: Image #1, Douglass House, perspective view of the 2 story Amity Store addition with freight door to 2d floor ware-house, and 1 story addition used for processing meat and other food products as part of the "general store" mercantile functions of the 4-structure complex. Store ledgers commencing in the late 1760s and owned by the Trust are kept by in archival conditions by the Berks History Center, where they may be viewed on its premises. Image #2:The white-painted wall [removed in the early 21st century] connecting back corners of the 1765 house and the 1-story food processing structure is not original to the period. It enclosed a brick-paved yard facilitating the passage of people, food ingredients, and finished goods for sale in the store facilities in the period between the house [which included the original Amity Store in the room fronting the original kitchen from the late 1760s until the construction of the store addition c. 1798-1810], the 1-story addition, the store addition, and the stacked root cellar and smoke-house between the store addition and the 1-story structure. A late 18th century document in the Trust's collection is an inventory of "Pork in the Smoke House", reciting sales from and processed additions to the pork to be smoked for sale. Image #3: Elevation view of the Store and 1-story additions. The chimney at the gable-end of the 1-story addition vented a very large fireplace used in connection with the processing of food for sale and for the Douglass family, and for their guests and business visitors, and probably for those employed in the various enterprises conducted by George Douglass Sr. and Jr. from 1765 to the death of George, Jr., c. 1832. Larry Ward, August, 2023