Subject

Disintegrated Masonry

DeTurk cellar drain opening inlet site
Photos 1001.01.168

Cellar floor drain inlet

DeTurk ยท December 3, 2009

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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