Subject

Brick Floor

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Floor-fill layers & early brick paving in DeTurk kitchen celllar, 769 (2009

Photos 1001.01.234

Kitchen floor fill and brick paving

DeTurk · 07/21/2009

The earthen layers appearing in these two photos, of varying compositions of clay, sand, gravel, and [probably] floor sweepings, document the incremental raising of the floor levels in the kitchen and "root" cellars as occasional creek floods, and frequent water table incursions, inundated the working kitchen and food storage areas. Brick floor paving and fi

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Unrestored northeast corner of DeTurk kitchen (2009)

Photos 1001.01.095

Unrestored corner of kitchen cellar

DeTurk · 05/09/2009

A pre-restoration view of the corner of the ground-level kitchen and original floor bricks, laid in running bond, showing the 20th-century floor level approximately 18-20 inches above the original 1767 brick floor, which was found by excavations along the east wall of the kitchen and against the eastern pier ["leg"] of the kitchen fireplace. This view shows

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