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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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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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Digital photographic image showing a southwest perspective view of the DeTurk House.
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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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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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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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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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