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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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Exterior view of north door jamb foot in one inch of water above stone sill after 2 inches of rain in 36 hours. This water level would submerge the restored brick-paved kitchen floor under seven inches of water and place the foundation wall and its exposed mortar joints in contact with more than one foot of standing water, which recedes from that level ve
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Detail view of jamb [top-center], door sill [upper center], and retaining wall blocks (left third of photo), [detail at lower left corner of DTR09PH51--1001.01.135]. Blocks along left third of photo are foundation stones of the low retaining wall and masonry abutment south of the kitchen doorway before restoration [see DTR09PH61--1001.01.145 for restored
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Exterior view of restored [original] kitchen door sill and lower portions of replacement oak jambs. The [original] stone sill 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, sil
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Exterior masonry pier south of replacement door jamb (white primer paint on south face) at kitchen doorway. Displaced stones have been removed to allow relaying, consolidation, and stabilization of pier stonework, restoring a plumb alignment with the door jamb. Green stones along left edge of photo are face blocks of the east-west retaining wall intersect
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The replacement southern jamb at the ground-level kitchen doorway stands for days in the water which covers the stone sill, on which the jambs are anchored by iron pins in mortises chiseled into the sill. The darkened area of the jamb above the water level has been soaked by the high water table and "wicking" of water upward in the porous oak timber. This pr
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Color-keyed field drawing (8.5 x 11 inches) showing historically varying positions of door jamb, lintel, and outlookers of lower ground level kitchen doorway in east eaves wall before and after the 2009 restoration of the DeTurk House. The positions shown approximate the early (18th century), 20th-century, and post-restoration alignments of each set of eleme
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Frame #5 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, Keim ancillary building, ground-floor gable-end "Dutch" door, from a set of various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. Keim ancillary building gable-end doorway. Details include: random-rubble masonry, brick relieving arch, brick infill, two-leaf (Dutch) door, oak jambs and lintel.
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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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East kitchen cellar entry after excavation to the original stone door sill. The half-millstone stoop [location detail in photo DTR09PH44--1001.01.128 and see note {1} to DTR09PH41--1001.01.125] along the lower edge of the photo [left of the barrow's wheel] is at an intermediate elevation between the original door-sill [with dark transverse split] and the
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Restored masonry pier south of kitchen door jamb. The restoration masons have retained or inserted large stone "key" blocks projecting from the north-south plane of the wall for bonding with a possible future restored retaining wall. This cross-bonding takes advantage of the interlocking angles and reciprocal bearing surfaces of the stones forming the wal
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Masonry joints in random rubble piers abutting doorway were repointed in April, 2010, applying hydraulic-grade mortar to joints situated below restored final [20th-century] grade or below the high water table levels [seen here at 2 inches below top of sill about 48 hours after rainfall; the water table rises to several inches above the sill top after 2-3 inc
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Post-restoration view of east doorway sill and lower abutments flanking oak replacement jambs. Water table is 5 inches below sill after 2 inches of rain in 48 hours. Temporary door is in place until water mitigation plan is implemented, after which the restored masonry joints will be pointed. Hydraulic mortar [see note {2} to DTR09PH66-1001.01.150} will b
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Digital photograph showing relaid and aligned pier foundation at DeTurk interior passage doorway. Jambs have been restored by joining new lower segments to sound wood to replace fungus-rotted timber (2009). Water table just above top of stone sill is at the same level as inside and outside the kitchen entry door-sill in the east eaves wall [see DTR09PH50--10
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Sites and Structures Report, April 2012 for the Historic Preservation Trust Board. The following is a summary of preservation and restoration work planned, completed, and in-progress, with recommended Board action: George Douglass House: Front Door, 1765 house: The door frame in the principal "Georgian" facade of the 1765 house was repaired with "
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Sites & Structures Report for the June 27, 2012 meeting of the Board of the Directors of the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County Description: The following is a summary of preservation and restoration work planned, completed, and in-progress, including requested Board action on pending projects and collections management: George Douglass House
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Eleven-page (including cover) document (with hand-written notes in blue pen & pencil) outlining the General Conditions, Special Conditions, Description of Work, Concrete Work, Masonry Work, Sheet Metal Work, Carpenter Work, and Painting required of contractors intending to place bids for the restoration work on the doorpiece [“doorcase”] in the south elevati
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Sketch plan drawing of June, 2010 installation of stone-paved spillway, drains, and retaining wall at DeTurk House kitchen-cellar entry. Also see DTR09FN8--1001.01.237, DTR09FN9--1001.01.238, and DTR09FN10--1001.01.239 for alternate views of this installation. See DTR09PH134--1001.01.230 for photographs of this installation.
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View to the east along root cellar partition wall from inside kitchen door sill after installation of south replacement door jamb on original stone sill. The cavity to the right of the jamb [just below the horizontal mid-line of the photo] will be relaid in plumb alignment with the jamb [see lower left corner of DTR09PH4--1001.01.124 for pe-restoration view
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The water level [“table”] evident in this photo [12/09/09] is two inches above the original stone sill, a typical level after several inches of rainfall, which occurs several times each year or more frequently [as in 2009]. This varying frequency of inundation has historically been sufficient to subject the jambs and door to destructive fungus-rot [see photo
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