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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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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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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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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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B&W Digital photographic image of DeTurk House showing cellar door at lower-eastern grade.
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Digital image (Image#1) of photographic print showing exterior of frame and doorway to lower ground-level kitchen of DeTurk House. Details include: figural folk paintings of birds/animals on door; oak frame; softwood door set at higher elevation than original position as grade was raised to mitigate flooding; vertical framing members of pent hood braces
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Detail of stone door sill at lower ground level kitchen doorway in east eaves wall.
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Interior foundation wall under east kitchen window after removal of displaced stonework. The interior layer of stones will be re-laid and the deformed inner oak sill replicated in its original form [see DTR09PH11--1001.01.092 for pre-restoration view of this sill].
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Interior view (inlet) of enlarged drain opening prior to restoration of masonry "tunnel" through east wall of lower ground-level kitchen. This drain-inlet site and the 1970s terra-cotta pipe through the north gable wall [see DTR09PH82--1001.01.171 left side of photo] were buried under the stratified floor-fill (see DTR09PH14--1001.01.095 for a pre-restora
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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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