Photos 1001.01.051
Exterior view of window
Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows first-floor south window in east eaves wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Photos 1001.01.052
Exterior view of window
Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows lower ground-level six-over-six sash kitchen window in east eaves wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Photos 1001.01.053
Exterior view of window
Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows first floor eight-over-eight, double hung sash window in south gable wall. Details include: original molded jambs and frame lintel, eight-over-eight sash window, shutter pintle. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Photos 1001.01.054
Exterior view of window
Digital image of original photograph taken by Steve Kindig. Image shows first- floor north sash window (missing lower sash) in east eaves wall. Laurence Ward, 2009
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Photos 1001.01.244
Fireplace Lintel and Masonry Restoration
Series of 89 photographs depicting the restoration of the fireplace lintel and masonry in the DeTurk house. Detailed captions appear below. DETAILED CAPTIONS #890, 8/9/09: Fireplace lintel (the large beam, also called a ”chimney-tree,” ”manteltree,” and ”balk” [early English: “baulk”] supporting the stone masonry chimney ”breast”) across center of photo
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Photos 1001.01.151
Foundation excavation
Exterior excavation along pier foundation north of the kitchen doorway. The dark layer adhering to sub-grade stones is saturated soil, which has partially disintegrated some of the sub-grade joint mortar. Non-original north jamb plinth-block [with gray debris on its flat top] is seen to the left of shovel handle. Exterior window sill appears across right
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Photos 1001.01.152
Foundation excavation
Excavated view of east foundation wall north of kitchen doorway. Excavated 8 inches deeper than in DTR09PH67--1001.01.151, showing displaced stones [the soil-darkened stone to the left is rotated 45 degrees out of its corner position below later jamb plinth-block seen in upper left corner of photo]. Degraded mortar, caused by saturated soil's dissolution
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Photos 1001.01.113
Fracture failure in cellar passage door jamb
B&W Digital photographic image showing detail view of root cellar passage in DeTurk House.
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Photos 1001.01.177
Front page image showing SE perspective view
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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Photos 1001.01.062
Gable pent hood and oculus
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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Photos 1001.01.194
ground-level kitchen door w/ folk painting
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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Photos 1001.01.256
Hood and hoist above 2d story access door in DeTurk House south gable end
This embanked structure was evidently a multi-purpose “ancillary” building, used in relation to the growing family farmstead and the nearby principal residence constructed c. 1741. Built in 1767, this uncommon ancillary form was used as: A “Grossmutter’s” retirement home in the single living space on the first floor above cellar; Johann [John] and Deborah
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Photos 1001.01.209
Hood outlooker joined to interior header
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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Photos 1001.01.252
Installation of exterior stone steps from upper bank level to cellar-entry level at the DeTurk ancillary house.
Because of the absence of interior stairs from the living space to the cellar kitchen, exterior access to the lower-grade kitchen doorway required descending a steep bank to the lower-grade. This was provided by installation of a set of stone treads on a tamped sloping sub-base and 2B crushed stone base, with boulder-size bed-stones set for stability and lev
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Photos 1001.01.148
Interior of vault abutment/partition wall from kitchen cellar
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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Photos 1001.01.056
Interior of window in south gable wall first floor
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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Photos 1001.01.057
Interior plastered wall detail
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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Photos 1001.01.110
Interior view of cellar door
B&W Digital photographic image showing interior view of cellar door at lower grade in eastern wall of DeTurk House.
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Photos 1001.01.049
Interior view of doorway in south gable wall
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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Photos 1001.01.219
Interior view of double relieving plates
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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Photos 1001.01.136
Interior view of kitchen door sill and jamb feet
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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Photos 1001.01.055
Interior view of window
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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Photos 1001.01.220
Interior view of window frame and double relieving plates
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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Photos 1001.01.109
Interior: 1st floor east window
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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