Restoration of chimney and rooms

From inside chimney space, looking into back room (called the "hall" in the early days)

 

photo of keeping room under re-construction/restoration and brickwork: hole to cellar where hearth had been; stacked bricks and stone

front door as seen through chimney cavity from kitchen (a.k.a. "keeping room")

From parlor looking through fireplace opening to where chimney once was  (you can see across the opening into the other room through that rooms fireplace opening)  Front hall on right (this was called the "porch" in the old days)