Subject
17 records
Search the archive
Northeast perspective view of the original 1765 house-block showing its principal features other than façade details: NE (back) eaves wall with asymmetrical fenestration based on differences in placement of interior elements (built-in closet ["Schrank"] in recess from chimney-plane of SE chamber on 2d floor, and kitchen fireplace and doorway passage on 1s
View record
Series of 3 color photographic prints of detail views of the additions on the southeast gable end of the 1765 George Douglass House: Image #1, Douglass House, perspective view of the 2 story Amity Store addition with freight door to 2d floor ware-house, and 1 story addition used for processing meat and other food products as part of the "general store" me
View record
Series of 5 color photographic prints of detail views of the George Douglass House and additions. Image #1 shows an elevation view of the c. 1798-1810 Amity Store addition to the 1765 "Manor House". The door above the entrance door is a "freight" door to the 2d floor wares storage apace for goods sold in the store below. Images #2 & 3 are an elevation
View record
The Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County, PA., Project ME Number 16709 George Douglass House Project work Accomplished January 1, 2019 to March 31, 2019 During the 1st quarter of 2019, our project plasterer (working on his 20th National Register structure) made substantial progress in the interior work, restoring wall integr
View record
The attached photos show the Project signage noting the grant participation of the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; “before” photos showing the degraded plaster to be preserved un-coated, removed and re-plastered, or whitewashed after crack repairs and surface losses; and (in Photo #3) the out-of-level, degraded, and missing flooring to be preser
View record
Series of 4 digital images depicting the early joint and pointing mortar at the George Douglass House. These samples will be tested for relative color and aggregate [sand] and lime content to provide an authentic basis for the mortar used in re-pointing and in the restoration plaster. DETAILED CAPTIONS #3048: 1 st floor mortar masonry sample. #3049:
View record
Series of 11 color photographic prints of painting crew working on George Douglass House.
View record
George Douglass House, c. 2003, photos of the 3 original Federal-era dormers, and of the roof as dormers were gradually removed. The additional photos show the house in various periods with one or more dormers surviving on the roof, and detail photos of the surviving frontispiece, which show one of the elaborately pieced vernacular Federal design frames.
View record
George Douglass House: Front Door Sill and Jamb Restoration Pair of holes drilled into replacement stone sill are for pins inserted into the wooden jambs for anchorage.
View record
Image #1 [photo #5579, 11/11/13] and the attached drawing dated 2/18/15, revised 3/12/15 [folder dated 4/14/15] show the two adjacent arch-form masonry vaults in the cellar of the 1765 George Douglass House against the below-grade foundation of the southern gable wall of the kitchen. Photo # 5773, 11/18/13 depicts the shared pier and triangular impost from w
View recordThe proposed replacement of the kitchen door and frame in the gable recess next to the large cooking fireplace required the Trust to investigate the vaulted support structure [photo #5775, 11/18/13] in the corner of the cellar. Located adjacent to the fireplace support vault and directly below the short doorway passage adjacent to the kitchen fireplace, this
View record
Series of 33 digital images depicting the masonry restoration work at the George Douglass House. The Trust’s Board of Directors resolved at its May, 2011 meeting to restore the three components of the George Douglass mansion and store structures to their historical and architectural ”period of significance” [”period”]. The consensus of historians and cons
View record
Series of 43 digital photographs (15 exterior and 28 interior) of the George Douglass House. Photos were included with the offical registration forms submitted to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. See GDHTX2--1006.01.015 for the full text of the original registration forms. See G
View record
Black & white photographic print of early addition at George Douglass House from a southwest perspective view. Note on reverse of photo says "copyright [symbol] Steve Myers Studios 1990."
View record
Photo #21 shows a stone arch in the cellar aligned diagonally to support the corner fireplace in the room above that served as the original "Amity Store" starting in the late 1760s [photo #15, 2/23/22, shows the fireplace arch as recently restored by setting replacement "voussoirs" (arch-stones) at the proper radius on a "centering frame", in place until the
View record
Color photographic print showing a XX perspective view of the George Douglass House. Details include: XXXXX
View record
The root cellar is under the smoke house adjacent to the c. 1795-1810 store attachment to the 1765 house. The adjacent brick well, seen through the arched opening in the end wall, cools the cellar when the condensation on the bricks from the well-water absorbs heat as it evaporates. The rectangular opening is a vent to the outside. The vaulted ceiling [“intr
View record