In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . ys preserves the stateli-ness and dignity befitting a mansion with a old house stands on a slight elevation, about amile from the village, in a park of some ten acres, withmeadows and green fields sloping from it in everydirection. The approach is by a private road set withshade trees. The park is well kept and fragrant withflowers and shrubbery. Four great, gaunt poplarsstand within it wliich are pointed out as having beenplanted by the Baronet himself, a year after the housewas built. A row of gn
In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city . ys preserves the stateli-ness and dignity befitting a mansion with a old house stands on a slight elevation, about amile from the village, in a park of some ten acres, withmeadows and green fields sloping from it in everydirection. The approach is by a private road set withshade trees. The park is well kept and fragrant withflowers and shrubbery. Four great, gaunt poplarsstand within it wliich are pointed out as having beenplanted by the Baronet himself, a year after the housewas built. A row of gnarled old lilac trees set in theform of an ellipse, and still blooming in their season,were set out by the same hand. The Hall itself is a square-roofed two-story andattic structure, built of wood dapboarded in the formof blocks of stone, and at its best estate had two wingsbuilt of sohd stone and pierced for musketry; but oneof these, however, is now standing. On entering thehouse its solidity and wide proportions at once markit as a product of the colonial era. Its timbers are. r c Z ,1^ 6 2 y -3 P3 Johnson Hall 131 massive. The hall running through the building isforty feet long by fifteen wide, with a broad staircaseleading to a similar hall above. The rooms are highand spacious and the sides are wainscoted with heavypanels and carved work. On the roof is an observa-tory from which one may look into four , however, did not form a part of the originalstructure. Bow-windows in parlor and dining-roomhave also been added by the present owner. In otherrespects it stands precisely as it was left by its titledbuilder. It was built in 1763, and was then consideredone of the finest mansions in the colony outside of NewYork. Sir William Johnson came of a good family in Irelandand arrived in America in 1738, at the age of twenty-three, to take charge of a large estate in the MohawkValley which his uncle, Captain Peter Warren, hadpurchased some years before. Either through
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