What the plantation looked like during Kingsley's tenure

What the plantation looked like when the Kingsleys lived there.
Photo source: I forgot!. contact me if you're the owner and I'll gladly remove it or credit you.

This image, shamelessly stolen by me from the web (for credit, see caption above) depicts Kingsley Plantation as it might have looked like when Zephaniah and Anna were living there. Since Ana's house was built in the 1820s, I'd like to believe that this is what the plantation might have looked like when my great-great-great-grandfather John Maxwell Kingsley—the fourth and last of Ana and Zephaniah's children—was born there in 1824. The image comes from an information panel located on the plantation.

Basically of note are the following:

• There were two chimneys and no interior staircase (one chimney is missing today, and an interior staircase was added in the late nineteenth century)
• There were only four corner rooms, the rooms placed in between with large bay windows were added later
• The covered walkway connecting the two structures was also added later
• The columns of the main house were cylindrical. At some point those were changed for rectangular columns (see my post titled "Oh, those State Park days"), but I believe that during restoration work on the basement one of the original columns was found and during a subsequent restoration of the house the rectangular columns were taken down and were replaced by replicas of the original cylindrical columns.