{{Redirect|Johnson Hall||Johnson Hall (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Johnson Hall | nrhp_type = nhl | image = File:Johnson Hall by Henry.jpg | caption = A 1903 painting despicts the presentation of medals to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1772 | image_size = 350px | location = Johnstown, New York | coordinates = {{coord|43|0|54|N|74|22|58|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = New York#USA | area = | built = 1763 | architect = Peter Harrison (architect) | architecture = Georgian | designated_nrhp_type = October 9, 1960<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=373&ResourceType=District|title=Johnson Hall|access-date=2007-11-16|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605235213/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=373&ResourceType=District|archive-date=2011-06-05}}</ref> | added = October 15, 1966<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> | refnum = 66000520 | designated_other1 = New York State Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other1_number = 03541.000030 | designated_other1_abbr = NYSRHP | designated_other1_date = June 23, 1980 }}

'''Johnson Hall State Historic Site''' was the home of Sir William Johnson (1715–1774) an Irish pioneer who became the influential British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Province of New York, known for his strong relationship especially with the Mohawk and other Iroquois League nations.

Johnson Hall is located at Hall Avenue, West State Street and Johnson Avenue, in Johnstown, New York.

==History== thumb|275px|left|The mansion in 2020

The house was built seven miles from the Mohawk River, close to Hall Creek.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_59528 |title=A Topographical Description of Such Parts of North America as are Contained in the (annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies & in North America |first=Thomas |last=Pownall |author-link=Thomas Pownall |publisher=J. Almon |year=1776 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cihm_59528/page/n29 11]}}</ref> Hall Creek provided water sufficient to power a sawmill and later a grist mill. Built of wood, the house frame was covered with wood planks intended to simulate stone. Johnson engaged leading colonial architect Peter Harrison to design the house; he hired the carpenter, Samuel Fuller, to build it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Milton W. |title=Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715–1763 |location=Port Washington, New York |publisher=Kennikat Press |year=1976 |isbn=0-8046-9134-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sirwilliamjohnso00hami_0/page/313 313] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/sirwilliamjohnso00hami_0/page/313 }}</ref> At least some of the ideas for the house came from the ''Builders' Companion'' magazine. Johnson also had two stone block houses built as defenses against attack on the frontier, as the British had just ended the Seven Years' War with the French. The stonehouses were also used for storage and other domestic uses.<ref name=sign />

Johnson founded Johnstown, New York, and came to own a {{convert|400000|acre|ha|adj=on}} estate. Johnson moved here from Old Fort Johnson in 1763 and lived here until he died in 1774. The house was inherited by his son, John Johnson. During the American Revolution, the rebel government in New York seized Johnson Hall because the Johnsons had gone to Canada as Loyalists. In 1779 the state sold the house to Silas Talbot, a migrant from New England.<ref name="nrhpinv"/>

It was used as a private residence by various owners until 1906, when the state bought it for preservation and interpretation as a house museum of the most important colonial landowner in the state. It received restoration in the early twentieth century and in the 1950s, to remove additions of the late nineteenth century and better reflect its original time. The historic site includes more than 18 acres of land.<ref name="nrhpinv"/> The mansion and the West Stonehouse are the only original structures on the site; the East Stonehouse is a reproduction.<ref name=sign>Historic sign on site</ref>

The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.<ref name="nhlsum"/><ref name="nrhpinv">{{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Johnson Hall National Historic Landmark|url={{NHLS url|id=66000520}} |format=pdf|author=Charles H. Ashton and Richard W. Hunter |date=October 15, 1984|publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=66000520|title=Accompanying 14 photos, exterior and interior, from 1984.|photos=y}}&nbsp;{{small|(2.96&nbsp;MB)}}</ref>

==See also== * List of National Historic Landmarks in New York * List of New York State Historic Sites

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{commons category|Johnson Hall (Johnstown, New York)}} *{{Official website |http://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/10/details.aspx}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080313131606/http://www.heritageny.gov/revwar/sites.cfm?id=55&PageNum_getALLsites=1&topic=rw Revolutionary War Heritage Trail: Johnson Hall State Historic Site], Heritage New York *Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS): **{{HABS |survey=NY-3107 |id=ny0215 |title=Johnson Hall, Johnstown, Fulton County, NY |photos=17 |data=2 |supp=yes |link=no}} **{{HABS |survey=NY-392 |id=ny0214 |title=Johnson Hall, Blockhouse |photos=2 |dwgs=4 |supp=yes |link=no}}

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