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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows exterior view of door and hardware in the west masonry wall at upper (first floor) ground level. The oak lintle and tops of jambs of the cellar kitchen window are seen along the lower left edge. Brick infill between door jambs and masonry indicates later period of doorway (19th century)
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows former doorway through west masonry wall providing access between first floor and 19th-century kitchen addition (removed). Brick infill between door jambs and stone masonry indicates later period of doorway (19th century) See DTHPH1--1001.01.021 for discussion of the removed addition
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Digital photographic print showing hole along western grade and elevation, allowing inflow to cellar kitchen of surface drainage from long macadam driveway. Image depicts conditions existing immediately prior to and necessitating the 2009 restoration of building. This is a low resolution image.
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Excavation to a depth of approximately 15 inches uncovered the 1970s terra cotta drain pipe outlet exterior to the north wall near the northeast corner of the kitchen wall. This drain was set too high above the water table range and did little to reduce either the volume of water saturating mortar joints and wooden elements of the doorway or the duration of
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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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B&W Digital photographic image showing arched bake oven in the cellar (since removed) of the DeTurk House. Larry Ward, 2009
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Article on DeTurk House on the front page of "Oley Valley Sentinel: A quarterly publication serving the entire Oley Valley School District," Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2009. Article appearing on page 7 was writeen by Spencer Shaak, Sentinel Intern and contains three photographs. Piece briefly discusses resoration project, its budget, archaeological study, an
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Southeast portion of DeTurk House attic granary showing east eaves wall plate [large hewn beam extending into the corner starting at the left edge of the photo]. This plate is rotated several degrees from the horizontal and curves outward, either from roof thrust or possibly because of a prior structural function, probably in another building{1}. Although in
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Iron tie rods were added in the 20th century as restraints against roof thrust acting on the eaves wall plates. The rod is seen entering the wall plate just below the upper right corner of the photo (the bricks are non-original in-fill). A nut secured the threaded end of the rod against the exterior vertical face of the plate. These interior rods apparently
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Iron tie rods were added in the 20th century as restraints against roof thrust acting on the eaves wall plates [“rafter plates”]. This pair in the north gable are secured by threaded nuts on the exterior face of the wall plates, and by embedding the interior terminals in mortar joints [seen to the left in this photo]. These interior rods apparently replaced
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Invoice for fabrication of window sash and upper door molding for DeTurk House by Boyertown Planing Mill. Invoice is dated August 29, 1974.
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Digital photograph showing detail view of the masonry partition wall between the ground-level DeTurk kitchen and root cellar at its intersection with the exterior doorway frame in the east eaves wall. The timber in the upper right segment of the photo is a floor joist bearing on the partition wall and the stacked pair of wall plates ["relieving lintels," see
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Digital photographic print showing door and window along eastern elevation. Image depicts conditions existing immediately prior to and necessitating the 2009 restoration of building. This is a low resolution image (72 ppi).
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Partially excavated DeTurk cellar floor drain outlet. The stone at the right edge of the photo is slightly angled toward the creek, at the same angle relative to the east wall as the jamb-stones of the drain are within the "tunnel" through the wall [see DTR09PH80--1001.01.169, DTR09PH78--1001.01.167, and DTR09PH82--1001.01.171]. The trowel blade in the up
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Inlet of original cellar kitchen floor drain through east wall foundation, prior to restoration. Excavation in December, 2009 uncovered the 18th-century kitchen-cellar drain [see DTR09PH80--1001.01.169 (pre-restoration) and DTR09PH82--1001.01.171 (restored)], basically a tunnel [rectangular in section at its inlet] on bedrock passing through the east wall
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Restored floor drain inlet through east foundation wall of kitchen. See DTR09PH14--1001.01.095 for a pre-restoration view of this corner. The bottom of the 6-inch PVC pipe inserted in the upper half of the rectangular drain tunnel is 8 inches below the door sill [2 inches lower than the restored floor level will be]. The pipe will drain the kitchen floor
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South elevation detail sketch drawing of June, 2010 installation of stone staircase and channel drains at DeTurk House kitchen-cellar entry. See DTR09PH134--1001.01.230 for photographs of this installation.
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South elevation sketch drawing of June, 2010 installation of stone staircase and channel drains at DeTurk House kitchen-cellar entry. See DTR09PH134--1001.01.230 for photographs of this installation.
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Sketch plan drawing of June, 2010 installation of stone staircase, north retaining wall, and channel drains at DeTurk House kitchen-cellar entry. See DTR09PH134--1001.01.230 for photographs of this installation.
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Series of 32 digital photographs showing the construction of the exterior stone steps to the lower-grade level kitchen doorway at the DeTurk House. Full captions for numbered photos appear below. June 14, 2010 2634: Brittle top layer of limestone bedrock found 18" below top of door sill. 2635: Chipped and fractured bedrock stratum under door sill. 2636
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Detail photo in DeTurk kitchen showing the "stopped" chamfer [see footnote {2} in DTR09PH119--1001.01.215] on the original first floor joist south of the northern outlooker; the chamfer on the southern edge ["arris"] of the joist extends part-way under the tenon of the anchoring header, stopping a few inches from the intersecting relieving lintel, apparently
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Invoice for restoration work to DeTurk House clay tile roof and chimney from contractor Chris Foster. Invoice is dated January 16, 1990.
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Seven-page article (with photographs) appearing on pages 2-8 in the Fall 1975 (volume IV, Number 1) issue of "American Folklife," journal of the American Folklife Society. Article titled "Colonial Dressed Stone Structures" discusses dressed stone houses, V-pointing & flat pointing, brick arches & dressed stone, etc. Approximately half of the article uses
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View of wall above kitchen door after removal of exterior layer [“wythe”] of stones, which were distended and out of plumb. Stones removed from above the doorway were laid out on the ground in "mirror" position and were re-laid and "mudded in" [set and bonded in bed and joint mortar] in their original positions. Repointing of this wall segment was complet
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