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THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST OF BERKS COUNTY, PA. Final Report On George Douglass House Restoration Project: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Agreement ME#16709; Project Beginning Date December 1, 2017; Ending Date September 30, 2021. Grantee: The Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County, PA., PO Box 245, Douglassville, Pa, 19518. Co
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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.
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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
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Series of two images showing the title page and inscription pages from a law book titled ”The Charters and Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania....” printed by Peter Miller and Company, Philadelphia, 1762. Title page indicates that this book is Volume I of a two-volume set. However, the book’s owner indicates that this particular book has Volu
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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
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Architectural floor-plan drawings of the first and second floors in the George Douglass House. these drawings were included as part of the group of documents sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National register Status for the Douglass House. Numbers and a
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Site map drawing of the plot on which the George Douglass House sits. This drawing was included as part of the group of documents sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National Register Status for the Douglass House. Numbers and arrows on drawings correspond
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Series of 35 pages that describes the location, ownership, history, architecture, etc. of the George Douglass House. This is the main application sent to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places as the application for National Register Status for the Douglass House. Photos included with this
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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 recordIn a Sept 15, 1997 manuscript note to Dr. Donald A. Shelley, then a Trust Board member, Theresa Beard--a Trust founder, former President, and long-time Board member--reported that she “spoke to a man who said he did not think there was a butcher shop in the Douglass Mansion but when he was very young…about 10 years old…he remembered the Slaughter House and s
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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."
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Architectural Drawing of basement floor plan with inset elevations "A" and "B" marked on general basement plan. Drawing depicts proposed measures for stabilizing the George Douglass House.
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Photocopies of sixteen handwritten pages outlining: 1) the genealogy of Douglass family--starting with George Douglass Senior's father, Andrew, and the 4 generations after George Sr. 2) properties owned by George Sr. 3) a 1799 inventory inventory of the George Sr. estate 4) a partial transcription of George Junior's 1832 will 5) and a chain of tittle
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Two page newsletter published by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Feb. 1997 (Volume IV Number 1). Topics discussed include: recrafting of the Trust's mission statement, and an update on the restoration work on the George Douglass House. See additional image for full text.
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Eight page newsletter published by the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County in Feb. 1997 (Volume IV, Number 3). Topics discussed include: 32nd annual Mouns Jones Country Fair, educations programs, George Douglass House update, George Douglass history, colonial Military Muster, Christmas Tea, annual membership meeting, calendar of events, and voluntee
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Photocopy of a one-page Architectural Data Form prepared by Barry K. Stover for Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Form was prepared in order to update existing HABS information for George Douglass House privy. This information was never filed with HABS. See GDHFN1---1002.01.016 for measured field notes drawings created by Barry Stover to accompan
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Photocopy of a one-pagemeasured field notes drawing prepared by Barry K. Stover for Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Drawings were prepared in order to update existing HABS information for George Douglass House privy. This information was never filed with HABS. See GDHTX2---1002.01.015 for dats sheet created by Barry Stover to accompany this dra
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Photocopy of a one-page measured field notes drawing prepared by Barry K. Stover for Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Drawings were prepared to update existing HABS information for George Douglass House stable, which appears to the left of 1765 house-block in the 1950s photo in record GDHPH10. This frame structure, of unknown construction date, was
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Photocopy of 26 pages of measured field notes drawings prepared by Barry K. Stover for Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). Drawings were prepared in order to update existing HABS information for George Douglass House. This information was never filed with HABS. Please note sheets 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are missing. A data sheet to accompany these dr
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Color photographic print showing a XX perspective view of the George Douglass House. Details include: XXXXX
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