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Mouns Jones Root Cellar A 1962 photograph [photo #19, 11/21/17] by Harry Stauffer, the Farmersville, PA "printer, tinker, and furniture maker", and, most significantly for the PA preservation and rural history community, a prolific and perceptive avocational photographer, was the first-noticed piece of evidence that a root cellar existed to the northwest
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Series of 71 digital photographs showing restoration and reconstruction of stone steps and wooden cellar cap ("bulkhead") and doors for the Keim House cellar entry. Thus far no evidence has been found for the existence of timber framing for an early door, or a "pintle"(a) attachment sites in the mortar joints, or other structure sheltering the stone-arche
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Image #1 is from Frame # 12 of 16 (2-17) from 35mm color negatives, all various views of the buildings on the Jacob Keim Farmstead. This view of Keim house ("quoin" corner detail, right in photo), sod-covered vaulted "root cellar", center-foreground, and gabled ancillary building, which included a wood turner's shop in the 18th century. Image #4, photo KH4,
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Sites & Structures Report for the November 30, 2011 meeting of the Board of Directors of the Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County Description The following is a summary of preservation and restoration work completed and in-progress, with recommended Board action: Keim House: A. Root Cellar stabilization and restoration: The barrel-vaulted
View record![Temporary shoring ["centering"] frame supporting DeTurk cellar vault (2009)](/media/57b5c03c-f7d2-56d5-a763-024421ec7315/thumbnail)
Temporary shoring [”centering” {1}] frame supporting root cellar vault during restoration of vault abutment wall. This is the upper segment with a sheet of plywood ”scribed” to the ”intrados”{2}. FOOTNOTE {1} "Centering" (“false-work” in early usage) is the term customarily applied to the timber frame supporting an arch or vault during construction until
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East cellar doorway prior to replacement of door-frame and masonry restoration. Restoration of the doorway and kitchen floor to their original elevations {1}, which are only marginally higher than the flood levels of the Creek and the high water table, will require diversion and mitigation measures to minimize water incursion. A stairwell from the restore
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