Looking at the enlarged photo above of the mahogany staircase and hallway the door far back is a 1771 Sir William Johnson baronet door and under the back hallway leading into a large elegant front living room with bay windows so Sir William could push his couch back and see out the window with the corner of his eye, is a door just like the door you see in the rear of the hallway of the enlarged photo artfully made a part of the wall its details viewable to all. Immediately to the right of that door if it were not part of the wall you enter a working door into the Chapel preaching room into the chapel room the mid room with large swinging doors to the elegant living room. Ironically Sir William never built this west side of the home with a fireplace and although there are two brick chimneys on the west side none of them can take a fireplace. The chimney towards the front of the west side could have as economically been built to accept a fireplace but it was not and instead was built to accept post Benjamin Franklin iron wood burning room heaters. Which were smokey and not popular. Before Sir William had ever moved to Johnson Hall Johnstown NY Benjamin Franklin had invented his iron wood burner stove. It is all very sophisticated but Sir William did not want a fireplace which would have kept a fire burning nights and given off ten times the heat. The iron wood burner post Benjamin Franklin stove was good enough for an hour of chapel preaching in the chapel room. There is also a chimney for a post Benjamin Franklin iron wood burner in the far back kitchen that can not accomodate a fireplace. The west side of the house has no fireplace and it was never indended by Sir William that it should. Mohawks of Joseph Brant lived upstairs in the high attic that which belongs by access to the west side although it is on the east side of the house. And they came down the mahogany staircase by access door upstairs or exited the back lower attic stairways to go to Kingsboro shopping. This house is an important house second in importance to Johnson Hall Johnstown NY as Sir William in his last three years spent his summers here close to his belovid sportsman Fish House, in business, with invited guests, defensive and his Mohawk friends. Sir William Johnson built and owned many properties but was keen on rental shillings. This home was never rented for shillings. It was important. The fireplace was over in the kitchen of the east side of the house now the dining room and with doors properly open and closed that fireplace heats the high attic through its narrow staircase open fairly comfortably. It is a tight attic with roof rafters coming down and lying flat on the house sideboards. Mohawks could sack out here in comfort. Above the chapel room and living room was the ministers bedroom and study that also a post Benjamin Franklin iron wood heater could be attached to. The old fireplace in what is now the dining room of the east side has been moved to the living room with an indescribably beautiful mid ninetheenth century Conover and Woolley mint condition fireplace. On Google search engine there is a diary that a state Governor left his office to travel to Conover and Woolley office in NYC to put his order in for one. It is worth a lot of money. In the back yard is a very healthy 200 year old black walnut tree that this past year produced such an abundant crop of wallnuts that the sidewalk was a slippery cover of them. My mother in the country 2011 also has an old apple tree that produced with extrordinary abundance but not the year 2010. The tree is exactly 36 inches in diameter and that is as big as wallnuts get in this area. Soon it will begin to die. Perhaps not for 25 to 50 years. Right now it is very healthy and exceptionally valuable for veneer. Some of the floors are now 20th century oak as oak was not popular earlier. Fortunately the dining room on the east side with the old original fireplace is has been left original home colonial pine board. There is a magnificant colonial kitchen door with glass with tens of thousand of tiny bubble on the style of the door you see in the hallway. I found that behind protective wood in the cellar and put it back on. The small cubical back kitchen which is where the kitchen is now has been added on 20th century. The old massive cellar walls have lasted with out a cut stone out of place for 240 years. And exception is where the small kitchen room has been added on at the back of the house where you can buy the same foundation materials at Home Depot today. It is said the reason that small kitchen room was added on was motivated by someones certainty that a massive cut grey stone part of the wall sitting on the cellar floor had a marking on it that it was the stone behind which portable wealth was hidden. As nothing further was done to find portable wealth it is very doubtful portable wealth was found. This is an old tenon mortise wood pegged home totally from attic to cellar meaning it was built by cheap black slave labor before the Revolutionary War but not available economically after. Tenon mortise wood pegging produces a money pit potentially in portable wealth. Sir William Johnsons Hall in Johnstown NY received some damage from Revolutionary War continental congress troops looking for hidden portable wealth following John Johnsons flight into Canada a loyalist. The high attic has a large window on the north side with 56 small payns of exquisitly beautiful wavy bubbly glass and 56 munkins. In the house wood surrounding the window are carved partridge struts which are the signature of Sir William Johnson bart. Forty foot long eight inch by eight inch rafter beams support half way up the attic roof rafters. These beams are hand hewn and attached to hand hewn thick legs on the floor. Everything is wood pegged. The attic is a marvel and perfection. As the attic rafter sit flat on the house side boards not notching and extending over on the high attic and four years ago in shingling the roofer used chip board which the gable fly rafters were attached to the gable is not that perfect. I noticed John Easterly who purchased the property in 1791 for shillings as confiscated property of Sir John Johnson knight, loyalist, son of Sir William Johnson, on one of our earliest Fulton County NY transcribed deeds, book one, was carving down in the basement under the east side of the home chimney foundation. The irish rev mr. Keff may have preached out of my home in 1791. It is noted 1791 money was found and building supplies purchased for the Pleasant Square chapel the earliest methodist church in Fulton County. And a lot purchased in Pleasant Square community to build the chapel on. John Easterly was a prominent member of that earliest methodist church. Pleasant Square community still there on the very edge of the northern side of north Kingsboro is built on the John Easterly purchase. Perhaps they got away with the loot. Near John Easterlies carvings and under the fireplace in the cellar there is in an out of the way place a very small cursor ^ with a very small X next to it. This carving is very neat and the first thing that strikes is the wood had more moisture content when the carving was made probably about 15 years before John Easterly carvings down there.  Lost to history.