090616_Johnson Farm

After the Kirtland Temple, we moved on to the Johnson Farm.  It is a ways down the road from Kirtland, to the South.  It is one of the places that Joseph lived and did some of his translating.  He lived there for a while.

The first area you go to is the carriage room.  It is attached to the house and is enclosed.  

These are original main beams and cross beams.  

When they were refinishing the interior of the rooms and the doors, in the process of cleaning off the doors, they found out the Johnson's had finished the doors on the inside to look like this.  Most of the woodwork in the kitchen area is finished like this.  Our guide said that this is the sign of a fairly well to do homeowner.

The kitchen fireplace is finished also the same way.

This is one of the original door handles on one of the doors.  There are only two in the house that are still there.  This is a pretty well made door handle.

One of the sitting rooms in the Johnson Farm House.  Notice the green trim around the windows.  This is original paint when they were prepping the house for tours.  

This is a living room.  In those days they had a bed in these rooms.  They painted the floor tiles bright colors so this room has these awful colors. 

The reason they know what color the tiles were is this portion of the floor tiles were not repainted and show the original coloring.

Upstairs they could have hired help sleep in their own beds and have considerable comfort when sleeping.  this area is above the carriage area when we first came in.

Here we are on the front steps of the ranch house, the very same steps that Joseph Smith spoke from on many occasions.

Here is the house taken from out in the front.

This is the rest of the ranch area behind the house.  It is worked on and leased out for local farmers to work crops during the summer.

We had a nice trip down here and got to hear some more history of the area.  The Johnson's were instrumental in helping Joseph with the work of the Book of Mormon.