Photo Record
Images
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Metadata
Collection |
George Douglass |
Title |
Detail views of SW elevation & perspective |
Archive Number |
GDHPH3 |
Description |
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 of the façade of the 1765 house. Two of the 3 Federal-era attic dormers survive and were removed in a late 20th century restoration to the original 1765 period of the house. The frontispiece of one of them [photo attached] is a permanent artifact exhibited in a chamber on the 2d floor, a fine example of the intricate pieced craftsmanship of early carpenters and joiners in the Manatawany "backcountry". The partly rubble and partly stuccoed masonry range between the first and second story windows was the unseen backwall of the ceiled pent roof from 1765 until late in the 19th century, when it was removed. Photo # 109, Oct 24, 2021, shows the re-constructed "pent" as restored in the 2017-2021 campaign funded in part by a Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission matching grant. The doorway in the leftmost bay was installed in the late 19th century for access to a barber shop, an ice cream parlor, and retail sale of goods, including "oysters". It was restored in the late 20th century to its original site for a window, one of the symmetrical fenestration elements of the original Georgian façade. The attached early 20th century photo of the Douglass House and its additions, published in one of George Meiser's Passing Scene volumes shows signs advertising "Oysters" above the doorway, ice cream, on a sign suspended under the pedimented hood, and haircuts, by the radially striped barber pole next to the left hood-post, and now in the Trust's possession as an artifact to be exhibited in the "Shelley-Pendleton Education and Exhibit Center" dedicated within the Douglass House in November, 2022. Images 4 & 5 show the original 1765 house and the left bays of the Amity Story addition, and the sloped doors of the steps descending through the basement into the cellar under the original Amity Store in the 1765 house-block. Larry Ward, August, 2023 |
Search Terms |
GDHPH GDH George Douglass House George Douglass House Photo Detail Photo Elevation Photo Vintage Photo Dormer Pent roof Amity Store Freight Door |
People |
Douglass, George |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Accession number |
1006.01 |
Date |
c.1980???? |
Photographer |
unknown |
Catalog Number |
1006.01.007 |