Subject

Anchor Beam

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DeTurk, mortised header securing tenon of doorway hood outlooker (2009)

Photos 1001.01.215

Anchoring header for hood outlooker

DeTurk · 08/20/2009

Two digital photographic images showing the anchoring header for hood outlookers above the kitchen doorway of the DeTurk House. This "header"{1} is secured laterally into its flanking pair of first-floor joists by mortise and tenon{2} joints, indicating that a hood over the kitchen doorway was an integral part of the original construction. The end-grain o

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DeTurk, N outlooker over kitchen door after set into the mortised header

Photos 1001.01.211

Restored and leveled north replacement outlooker

DeTurk · 12/07/2009

Cantilevered, tapered, and chamfered north oak outlooker, re-cycled from another early building and cut to the presumed early form, leveled with its southern counterpart, is "checked"[split] along the grain, but structurally adequate to carry its share of the cellar-kitchen doorway hood. The wet appearance of the timber at the left edge of the photo is a res

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