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Photograph of 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. Image shows a SE perspective view of the DeTurk House. Details shown in this image include: ymmetrical pent hoods on south gable wall; hooded loading door in upper gable wall for acce
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Digital image of photographic print (reproduced in printed material) showing gable detail of south facade. Details shown in this image include: slate roof, blind oculus, gabled hood, wooden shingles (hood), inscribed lintel, outlookers supporting hood roof structure, horizontal nailer for vertical gable boards. Original caption to photo reads: "DETA
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Publication Source: Pennsylvania German Society, Der Regebogge, Vol. 14 (1980), page 8
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Black & white photographic print of DeTurk House ground-level kitchen door with folk painting. Note on reverse of photo says "copyright [symbol] Steve Myers Studios 1990." see record DTHPH6 for discussion of the “Elbedritsches depicted on this door. Larry Ward, updated July 2022
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Measured drawings accompanying Historical American Buildings Survey photographs and text. Three pages of info contains cover page, location map with historical and project info, and floor plans. Image shown is of coverpage only. For full images refer to Multimedia Links or additional images. See records DTHPH2--1001.01.024 thru DTHPH8--1001.01.030 for sep
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Four panel promotional brochure printed by the Trust for solicitation of members, donors, etc. Brochure discusses Trust history, properties, and activities as well as a space to write contact information when forwarding membership dues. See MJHPH86--1000.01.092 for a enlarged view of the Mouns Jones House as pictured in this brochure. See additional
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Excerpt from the "Transactions of the Historical Society of Berks County Volume III: Embracing Papers Contributed to the Society 1910-1916" published by the Historical Society of Berks County in 1923 in Reading, PA. Sixteen-page excerpt begins on page 255 and is titled "Great Religious Revival which Occured in the Oley Valley 175 Years Ago." Paper written
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The "checked" portion of the outlooker [left half of photo] is anchored into a mortise in the header just to the right of center in the photo, immediately to the right of the darker red fluid-treated portion of the outlooker. The wood end grain just to the left of the masonry along the right edge of the photo is one of the floor joists into which the header
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Letter Aug 14, 1969, by Mrs. E. Robert Hottenstein in reply to the Aug. 1, 1969 letter from Donald D. Donohue. There is further discussion of the De Turk house door and its hardware, and the details necessary to have reproductions of these made if the originals cannot be purchased.
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Interior view of vault abutment wall [right] and temporary plywood door from ground level kitchen. This restored masonry "cross wall" is also the partition wall separating the cool, damp food storage ["root"] cellar from the warmer and less humid kitchen/cooking cellar. The restored segments of this wall were repointed in 2010 using hydraulic-quality mort
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows interior view of first- floor sash window in south gable wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows detail view of interior wall west of doorway in south gable wall. Details include: whitewashed clay with grass binder plastered on masonry wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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B&W Digital photographic image showing interior view of cellar door at lower grade in eastern wall of DeTurk House.
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows interior of doorway through south gable wall on the first floor. Details include: summer beam, relieving lintel, door frame lintel, door jambs, doorway sheathing, oak floor boards, plastered wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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The upper plate embedded in the masonry wall is the bearing and leveling timber for the first floor joists and a "tie" pocketed into the north wall to join it structurally to the east eaves wall. It also spans across numerous vertical mortar joints [“breaks the joints”], thus inhibiting or interrupting fractures which might otherwise radiate through a longer
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Door sill and restored jamb feet from inside lower ground level kitchen. Un-pointed masonry along right edge of photo is the restored vault abutment, which is also the partition wall between the kitchen and root cellar. Repointing was completed in the Spring of 2010. The red jack and steel post were used to level the steel I-beam supporting the structu
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Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows interior view of first- floor eight-over-eight sash window in east eaves wall (1973). Laurence Ward, 2009
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Interior view of the stacked pair of "wall plates" in the west eaves wall which are, functionally, relieving lintels carrying wall, floor, and framing loads to the masonry piers and wall ranges abutting the kitchen windows [and door "abutments" in the east eaves wall]. The upper plate also served as the bearing and leveling timber for the first floor joists.
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B&W Digital photographic image of DeTurk House showing interior view of 1st floor eastern window with severely deflected timber sill and adjacent masonry (since restored and leveled).
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Digital photograph showing detail view of lower segment of DTR09PH50--1001.01.134, showing receding water table. Water table at kitchen door sill dropped about 6 inches during 3 days without rain. Pumping after heavy rainfall had only temporary effect on lowering the water table inside or outside the entry threshold because of the continuous percolation
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Interior view of door sill and jamb feet [detail of DTR09PH52--1001.01.136]. The restored south jamb is set on the original stone door sill, which exhibits a full-width transverse fracture [visible between plank and left (north) door jamb]. This fracture is probably related to the deflection and dislocations in the east kitchen wall masonry and timber suppor
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Exterior view of restored east cellar door sill and jambs. The stone sill [original] was shifted 2-3 inches to the right [north] to accommodate the adjusted jamb alignments [see DTR09PH4--1001.01.124 for discussion of the effects of this relocation of the sill on the relationship between the doorway jambs, lintel, sill, abutments and hood outlookers, and DTR
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Interior view of southern end of original stone sill [center left] and foundation of vault abutment pier [right half of photo] at east entry to ground-level kitchen. Irregular block in upper left corner is a later plinth ["pedestal stone"] for the south door jamb, with barely visible anchor-pin mortise [small brown circle just to right of mossy green face of
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East kitchen door sills and jamb plinths. The half-millstone stoop{1} visible here extending from barrow wheel at left across upper half of photo [see DTR09PH43--1001.01.127] is higher than the earliest entry elevation; the later plinth-blocks [right center and lower left] are set on the original (split) sill at bottom of photo, which is 6-7 inches above
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