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Series of 89 photographs depicting the restoration of the fireplace lintel and masonry in the DeTurk house. Detailed captions appear below. DETAILED CAPTIONS #890, 8/9/09: Fireplace lintel (the large beam, also called a ”chimney-tree,” ”manteltree,” and ”balk” [early English: “baulk”] supporting the stone masonry chimney ”breast”) across center of photo
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George Douglass House Restoration Project-Work Accomplished and In-Progress, 4th Quarter 2020 Fourth quarter work in 2020 included interior and exterior woodwork, and interior painting of replicated elements fitted into place, providing “stops” for finish plastering to begin in January. The interior carpentry and joinery was concentrated in the first floor
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Series of 50 digital photographs depicting the removal of the c. 1930s porch from the Keim House {q}. 1. {q} Image #47 is a panoramic view of the Keim farmstead, a c. 1930, photo taken by Amandus D. Moyer, and is used with the generous permission of the photographer's granddaughter Susan Harvin. Note the absence of a porch on the west gable wall. The
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Northern replacement outlooker over kitchen doorway in east eaves wall. The chamfered and tapered white oak hood support has been under-cut, removing one inch along the bottom of its projecting segment from the point of its emergence from the wall to the beginning of its upward taper. The top inch has been cut ["ripped"] from its embedded portion, the res
View record![Fulp ["Bridge Keeper's"] House, restoring chimney, detailed caption #835](/media/0ea7f4c2-913f-54f1-88cc-ee111d2eec7f/thumbnail)
Series of 36 digital photos taken during the restoration of the south gable chimney of the Michael Fulp (formerly "Bridge Keeper's") House. Many years of infiltration by storm water and recurring freeze-thaw cycles had disintegrated the bed- and joint-mortar in the gable wall and chimney wall segments enclosing the flue(a). Lacking the crucial monolithic
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Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County Sites & Structures Report, September 2018 Mouns Jones House Later period and compromised 2d floor boards and joists have been removed; scaffold-shoring installed to support all structural loads normally borne by the wall now under restoration [Image #1, Photo 1, 9/5/18, exterior scaffol
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Sites & Structures Report for the August 2011 Board meeting of the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County: Keim House: A. Removal of the porch and concrete cellar steps, retaining walls, and bulkhead side-walls ["cheeks"] revealed numerous original architectural details concealed by these massive 20th century accretions, including the flattened [
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Temporary support during the wall restoration at Mouns Jones House in Morlatton Village, Douglassville, PA. This structure [see conceptual drawing MJH shor scaff, 020414 ] combines: (A) the “raking” shores necessary to support the portion of the roof thrusts previously supported by the stone wall ranges removed during this project, (B) th
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Detail of DTR09PH106--1001.01.202: East kitchen cellar door and shuttered window prior to restoration and regrading. The existing grade is approximately 16 inches below the window sill and approximately 18 inches above the original grade at the kitchen-cellar entry "threshold" [top of stone door-sill]. These dimensions were established by excavating to t
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East cellar doorway prior to replacement of door-frame and masonry restoration. Restoration of the doorway and kitchen floor to their original elevations {1}, which are only marginally higher than the flood levels of the Creek and the high water table, will require diversion and mitigation measures to minimize water incursion. A stairwell from the restore
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