Name/Title
WORKMAN HOUSE SOUTH PORCH, EAST END PLASTER STRIPPINGEntry/Object ID
99.5.33.800Description
WORKMAN HOUSE SOUTH PORCH, EAST END PLASTER STRIPPING
Color: Brown; White
A color polaroid photograph of plaster stripping at the south side of the Workman House, ca. June 1978. To the right is the entrance door into the eastern center room of the house, next to the Kitchen. It and the frame are painted white, though it is not known if this was in preparation for restoration or preexisting. To the center and left are two windows, but it appears that the frames and windows are new, as explained in the inscription below. All of the most recent layer of plaster was removed, leaving, for the most part, the historic "granite blocks" decorative plasterwork, though it was gouged for the preparation of the more modern layer of plaster. At the top are sections of the adobe wall and above this rafters for the ceiling. At the base of the wall below the windows is a layer of brown, which may also be adobe. At the bottom of the image is the porch floor, with white wood or some other material lying on it. On the reverse is an ink inscription reading "Workman Residence / South Porch - east end / after uncovering prior to / restoration / photo Jeff Tyler, Alhambra / R-5 #28 / ca. 6/78." Beneath this is a stamp of restoration architect Raymond Girvigian with his name, address, and telephone number, covered with a piece of tape. With little indication of damage or wear, the artifact is in good condition.
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Two-dimensional, Photographs, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, Adobe brick, Adobe houses--City of Industry (Calif.), Doors, Dwellings--City of Industry (Calif.), Historic sites--City of Industry (Calif.), Plasterwork, Decorative
