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Image #1 [photo #5579, 11/11/13] and the attached drawing dated 2/18/15, revised 3/12/15 [folder dated 4/14/15] show the two adjacent arch-form masonry vaults in the cellar of the 1765 George Douglass House against the below-grade foundation of the southern gable wall of the kitchen. Photo # 5773, 11/18/13 depicts the shared pier and triangular impost from w
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Series of 71 digital photographs showing restoration and reconstruction of stone steps and wooden cellar cap ("bulkhead") and doors for the Keim House cellar entry. Thus far no evidence has been found for the existence of timber framing for an early door, or a "pintle"(a) attachment sites in the mortar joints, or other structure sheltering the stone-arche
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Photo #21 shows a stone arch in the cellar aligned diagonally to support the corner fireplace in the room above that served as the original "Amity Store" starting in the late 1760s [photo #15, 2/23/22, shows the fireplace arch as recently restored by setting replacement "voussoirs" (arch-stones) at the proper radius on a "centering frame", in place until the
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