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Digital image from photographic print showing perspective view of east and south elevations. Details include: shed-form pent hood, pent roofs, 19th-century slate roof, paneled shutters, Dutch door and attic door with later glazed sash. The shed-form pent hood shown here above the cellar doorway does not appear in any known photographs prior to 1918 and
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Digital image of photographic print deaccessioned by the Historical Society of Berks County. Image shows perspective view of east & south elevations of house and includes text in white ink overlay: "Johan De Tirck Debora De Tircken 1767 Oley, PA." Details include: pedimented hood over attic granary door, hyphenated pent roofs, shed-form pent hood ove
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Digital image of perspective view from southeast, scanned from a halftone reproduction of a photograph appearing in ”The Passing Scene,” vol. 3, page 194 by George M. Meiser, IX. Details include: altered Dutch door (glazed sash added); gabled hood over granary [attic] door; gable-end chimney; east pent hood outlookers [lacks frame and roofing]; paneled s
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Perspective view from southeast. People pictured from left to right are Ned Lorah, Steve Kindig, and an unidentified woman. Details include: gable hood, clay-tiled pent roof and main roof, coursed and dressed masonry. See MULTIMEDIA LINKS or additional image for view of reverse of photo.
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Digital image of a tinted postcard print created from photograph by H. Winslow Fegley, showing a perspective view of the east [right] and south [left] elevations of house. Details shown include: pent roofs, gable hood, gable-end chimney, 19th-century slate roof, doors with later glazed sash, window sash, paneled shutters, stone stoop. Full text on fron
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Digital image from original photographic print showing southeast perspective view. Note on reverse side of photo reads "BEFORE RESTORATION" Details shown in this image include: gabled pent hood over attic door, brick gable-end chimney in south gable-end wall, Victorian slate roof, clay-tiled shed-form pent hood over ground level kitchen door in east ea
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Photographic print showing southeast perspective view with restored outlookers. Note on reverse side of photo reads "NEW ROOF OF CLAY TILE, OUTLOOKERS FOR PENT ROOF" Details shown in this image include: brick gable-end chimney, clay tile roof, pent hood, restored outlookers.
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Digital image of perspective from the southeast of DeTurk House from original photographic print. Brick Oculus, currently "blind", was possibly originally a vent for the "granary" [ dry storage attic ]. Gabled hood framing is presumed to be original. Other details include: horizontal timber plate-ties at eaves line, outlooker remnants and masonry pockets
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Digital image from photographic print of DeTurk House showing a perspective view from the southwest. Details include: 19th-century slate roof; connecting door (since removed) from 19th-century masonry addition to first floor; pedimented granary-door hood; remnants of pent roof “out-lookers” {n} cantilevered through gable wall to support pents; coursed mas
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Digital image from photograph print of DeTurk House showing perspective view of south & west elevations and 19th-century addition to left, and related detail photos showing the original door, its original hardware, and the original door with remaining red paint on stiles and rails, and white paint on panel fields; the panel moldings were blue [microscopic an
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Digital image of real photographic postcard showing southwest perspective view. Details inlcude: slate roof, oculus vent, pedimented attic door hood with wooden shingles, original paint-decorated shutters, pent roof with wooden shingles, attic door with later glazed sash, first floor door with later glazed sash, eight-over-eight- window, 19th-century doo
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Digital image of photographic print showing southwest perspective view. Details include: 19th century slate on main roof; original oculus vent; pedimented attic door hood with wooden shingles; pent roof with wooden side-lap shingles; attic door with later glazed sash; first floor door with later glazed sash; eight-over-eight ground floor window; 19th-cent
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Digital photographic print showing a southwest perspective view. Image shows exisiting conditions immediately prior to the 2009 restoration of building. This is a low resolution image.
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Interior view of the pair of stacked “wall plates” spanning the kitchen doorway and originally providing a level bearing support for the chamfered floor joists. These timbers, approximately the same dimensions as floor joists laid flat, serve as relieving lintels discharging the loads above the doorway and window frame to the abutting masonry piers. The long
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Exterior corner (“quoin corner”) of pier to left [south] of cellar doorway after removal of later door frame and non-original jamb-plinths. View prior to removal of displaced and unstable masonry, re-alignment to original position, and re-laying of pier stonework. Darker stones at foundation level (which were below the modern grade) have been excavated an
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Background text accompanying Historical American Buildings Survey photographs and drawings. Six pages of text contains "Location," Historical Info," "Architectural Info," etc. on the DeTurk House. For full text see additional images or refer to MULTIMEDIA LINKS. Full contents of HABS file may also be found in MULTIMEDIA LINKS.
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Description: This series of 33 photos documents the removal, restoration, reconstruction, and re-installation of the 9" x 12" "summer"{1} beam which spans from a lapped meeting with the fireplace lintel to the masonry bearing pocket in the "cross" wall between the ground-level kitchen and barrel-vaulted "root" cellar. The upper projecting segment [tenon] of
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Digital photographic image showing a southwest perspective view of the DeTurk House.
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Temporary shoring [”centering” {1}] frame supporting root cellar vault during restoration of vault abutment wall. This is the upper segment with a sheet of plywood ”scribed” to the ”intrados”{2}. FOOTNOTE {1} "Centering" (“false-work” in early usage) is the term customarily applied to the timber frame supporting an arch or vault during construction until
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Lower elements of the temporary shoring ["centering" {1}] frame supporting the root cellar vault during restoration of vault abutment wall. See DTR09PH130--1001.01.226 showing the upper portion of this shoring frame. FOOTNOTE {1} “Centering” [“false-work” in early usage”] is the term customarily applied to the timber frame supporting an arch or vault dur
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A pre-restoration view of the corner of the ground-level kitchen and original floor bricks, laid in running bond, showing the 20th-century floor level approximately 18-20 inches above the original 1767 brick floor, which was found by excavations along the east wall of the kitchen and against the eastern pier ["leg"] of the kitchen fireplace. This view shows
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Detail of DTR09PH106--1001.01.202: East kitchen cellar door and shuttered window prior to restoration and regrading. The existing grade is approximately 16 inches below the window sill and approximately 18 inches above the original grade at the kitchen-cellar entry "threshold" [top of stone door-sill]. These dimensions were established by excavating to t
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East cellar doorway prior to replacement of door-frame and masonry restoration. Restoration of the doorway and kitchen floor to their original elevations {1}, which are only marginally higher than the flood levels of the Creek and the high water table, will require diversion and mitigation measures to minimize water incursion. A stairwell from the restore
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Foundation of pier north of east cellar doorway after partial excavation prior to restoration. The displaced stones above and below modern grade [stones darkened by wet soil were below modern grade prior to excavation] are shown after removal of rotted later-period jambs. The early setting and pointing mortar, a typical lime-sand mix, applied between the
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