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Series of 4 digital images depicting the early joint and pointing mortar at the George Douglass House. These samples will be tested for relative color and aggregate [sand] and lime content to provide an authentic basis for the mortar used in re-pointing and in the restoration plaster. DETAILED CAPTIONS #3048: 1 st floor mortar masonry sample. #3049:
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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
View recordThe proposed replacement of the kitchen door and frame in the gable recess next to the large cooking fireplace required the Trust to investigate the vaulted support structure [photo #5775, 11/18/13] in the corner of the cellar. Located adjacent to the fireplace support vault and directly below the short doorway passage adjacent to the kitchen fireplace, this
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Black and White photograph from first floor interior of Mouns Jones House showing south gable end after re-laying of attic-level masonry of the gable wall, and southeast corner chimney. Shown at left is vertical wide-board partition paneling on second floor. Portion of southeast stone corner chimney appears in lower-center of photo; missing roof was recons
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Series of two digital images showing interior views of the eastern and western wall-plate ties [across lower range of photo] at the eaves level of the south gable wall. These oak timbers are approximately four feet long [the eastern element is slightly shorter from erosion] and six inches square in cross-section. They lap over the 1970-71 replacement wall pl
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Detail of stone door sill at lower ground level kitchen doorway in east eaves wall.
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Series of 33 digital images depicting the masonry restoration work at the George Douglass House. The Trust’s Board of Directors resolved at its May, 2011 meeting to restore the three components of the George Douglass mansion and store structures to their historical and architectural ”period of significance” [”period”]. The consensus of historians and cons
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One-page article with photos from a booklet titled "Oley Valley, An American Cultural Island" (vol. I , No. 7) published by the American Folklife Society in 1973. Article briefly discusses location and history of the Mouns Jones House.
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Series of 43 digital photographs (15 exterior and 28 interior) of the George Douglass House. Photos were included with the offical registration forms submitted to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. See GDHTX2--1006.01.015 for the full text of the original registration forms. See G
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Black & white photographic print showing eastern doorway of Mouns Jones House. Details include: This photo is c. 1968-70 (see c. 1967 photo in record MJHPH73 before re-opening this doorway), after removal of the 19th century masonry in-fill closing this doorway when the interior hall-parlor partition was moved to enlarge the parlor. The original 1716 oak
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Black & white photographic print showing eastern doorway of Mouns Jones House. Details include: This photo is c. 1968-70 (see c. 1967 photo in record MJHPH73 before re-opening this doorway), after removal of the 19th century masonry in-fill closing this doorway when the interior hall-parlor partition was moved to enlarge the parlor. The original 1716 oak
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Series of 13 images (4 black & white photographic prints, 5 color digital images, one HABS data sheet, and one field notes elevation drawing) showing details of the west [river-side] elevation of the Mouns Jones House. Additional images illustrate similar houses and architectural details described in the text references to those images. Details include:
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Exterior detail of south replacement jamb in kitchen doorway. The original stone sill, moved north 2-3 inches from its original position to accommodate the replacement door jambs, now extends 8.5 inches south [toward the upper left corner of this photo] from this jamb, terminating under the restored south door-abutment pier [masonry corner in upper-center
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A color photographic print (image #1) and a digital photograph (image #2) depicting the south gable wall of Michael Fulp House. Details shown in this image include: off-axis{1} gable-end chimney, random-rubble masonry, and attic window. Image #2, (photo 871, 11/12/10) taken during the November, 2010 dismantling of the unstable south gable, shows the po
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Digital image of a black & white photographic print showing detail of south gable wall at Michael Fulp House. Line & arrow in red marker draws attention to the beaded rake [“barge”] board referred to by the pencil note verso as “beaded boarded [sic] along eaves [sic].” Details include: random rubble masonry; rake board; off-center attic window; off-ax
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Digital image of a black & white photographic print showing southeast perspective view of Michael Fulp House (formerly called Bridge Keeper's House) after early 1970s restoration. Stove chimney on north gable has been removed, during or after the March, 1967 partial collapse. Invasive tree has been cut down [trunk and roots removed later]. Details include
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