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Black and white photographic print showing west elevation view of the Mouns Jones House after partial restoration, with unidentified person standing in front of building. The window openings have been modified to receive casement windows, perhaps based on consistently with an 1886 woodcut rendering of a southwest perspective view [see MJHDWG2--1000.01.089] a
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Details include: random rubble masonry; replacement casement windows; beaded board replacement door and frame; gable-end chimney centered on roof ridge; 1716 date-stone; replacement wooden-shingle roof; projecting "water table"{a} stonework at above-grade foundation of eaves wall; alternating-stone corner piers ["quoins"]; board-and-batten shutter. {a} A s
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Grayscale photograph, with pencil inscription on verso: "Toll House{1} south end facing Schuylkill River showing condition of roof. " This is actually a detail view of the west eaves wall [facing the Schuylkill River], showing the severe damage to the roof, which exposed the roof framing, attic floor and joists to inclement weather for at least several ye
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Black and white photographic print showing west elevation view of surviving masonry wall, chimneys, and fenestration openings on both stories of the Mouns Jones House. A HABS drawing dated 1957 shows the standing masonry walling after the collapse of the roof and flooring [see sheet # 1A of the Atlas of Drawings of Structures Preserved by The Historic Preser
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Black and white photographic print showing west elevation view of the Mouns Jones House with replaced roof. Details include: 19th-century asymmetric fenestration prior to removal and replacement with casement windows; new brick gable-end chimney, laid in running ["stretcher"] bond; replaced wooden-shingle roof; surviving and rebuilt random rubble masonry
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