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Hipped Porch Roof

Image#1: Black and White version of postcard of Mouns Jones House
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Postcards and Photography

Mouns Jones · 9/14/2010

MJHPH62: Description Two versions of a postcard, color and in black and white (see NOTE for more information on the images): From Morton Montgomery's 1886 History of Berks County: "Mounce Jones, an early Swede, built the first stone house in 1716 along the Schuylkill River. This is the oldest structure in Berks County. Mounce Jones and Ingabo, his wife, t

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Mouns Jones House, perspective view from covered bridge ramp (1911)
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Southwest perspective view

Mouns Jones · 09/12/1911

Digital copy of an original black and white photographic print showing a southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House, taken by H. Winslow Fegley from the ramp to the covered bridge across the Schuylkill River.. Details include: 19th-century half-hip roofed porch; 19th- and 20th-entury fenestration (compare window openings, proportions, and alignme

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Mouns Jones House, southwest perspective view (c.1927)
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Southwest perspective view

Mouns Jones · 09/12/1911

Black and white halftone image from a photograph by Nicholas B. Phillipson showing a southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House. Details include: 19th-century hip-roofed porch, 19th-20th century fenestration, parged masonry walls. Compare window openings, proportions, and alignment in this photo to the artist's woodcut rendition [c.1886] in MJHD

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