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Digital image from a photographic print showing view of south gable wall elevation. Details include: original oculus vent above attic-door hood, pedimented gable hood, original attic door with later glazed sash, hyphenated pent roof, later glazed first floor door, eight-over-eight window, coursed masonry. Larry Ward, updated September, 2022
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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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White oak embedded wall plates and stop-chamfered first floor joists in east masonry wall of DeTurk kitchen. The lower and shorter oak plate serves as a relieving lintel, transferring much of the wall loads to the piers abutting the kitchen doorway and window openings. The longer upper plate performs a similar bearing function, in addition to its effect as a
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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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B&W Digital photographic image of DeTurk House showing interior view of 1st floor window in western eaves wall.
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Digital photographic print showing western grade with eroded macadam surface and slope to creek, conditions which allowed incursion of surface drainage into cellar through opening at grade as seen in photo.
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Digital image of photographic print (reproduced in printed material) showing first floor window and shutter west of doorway on south facade. Details shown in this image include: eight-over-eight sash, paneled shutter, shutter dog [”stay”], pull ring. Original caption to photo reads: "PAINTED SHUTTER PANELS, John De Turk House, Oley Valley. The painti
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