<A HREF="http://www.valley.net/~connriver/N06-17.htm">Charlestown Main Street Historic District</A> Johnson House, (east side of Main Street). 1752 and later, Contributing. A 1-1/2 story frame and clapboard structure with a low, broad gable front, measuring three bays wide. the subject of numerous additions over the years. The central entrance is marked by an enclosed porch with doublehung 2/2 windows framed by corner posts set above a low clapboarded wall supporting a vertical flushboard pediment. The five-panel door is surrounded by sidelights and transom lights with an outer paneled surround decorated by cornerblocks. Windows contain 2/2 doublehung sash flanked by blinds, a paired set of windows and a single unit on the north side. The asphalt gable roof is punctuated by a central shed dormer on each slope. Offset to the north east is a 1-1/2 story ell with a secondary entrance marked by a pedimented hood on brackets on its facade. A pedimented dormer above contains a pair of windows. Extending behind the ell and set at right angles is a single-story clapboarded addition with an entrance on the south side. The enclosed porch and dormers are twentieth century additions. 1A. Outbuilding, c. 1800, Contributing. Northeast of the house is a clapboarded outbuilding with a standing seam, metal gable roof and a sliding door. Its close eaves and doublehung 12/12 windows suggest a relatively early date of construction. This property is significant locally as the site of the Johnson Cabin from which the family was taken captive by the Indians, August 30, 1754, and taken to Canada. Its history is so indicated by a stone marker with bronze tablet erected by the D.A.R. in 1927. The present house was reportedly built around the original log cabin. The original Johnson cabin door, complete with what is reportedly an Indian's hatchet mark, was given by the D.A.R. to the Fort 4 Associates and is on exhibit at Fort #4. Also worthy of note is an early brickyard which was once located north of this house and furnished the brick for many of the buildings along Main Street. <A HREF="http://www.valley.net/~connriver/N06-17.htm">Charlestown Main Street Historic District</A> Willard House, (southeast corner Main and Elm Streets), c. 1770-1790, A clapboarded 2-1/2 story structure situated above a stone block foundation and set broadside to the street. It is capped by a low pitch gable roof with eaves flush with the sidewalls. The paired central entrances feature individual door frames with recessed panels, cornerblocks and peaked lintels. Each contains a six-panel door framed by full sidelights. These doorways were added c.1839 when the structure was converted to a two-family house. Windows contain primarily doublehung 2/2 sash (not original) with lip lintels and blinds. Centered on each of the side elevations is a panel door with a plain surround and lip lintel. A blind window is located above. Extending behind is a single-story ell, a recent addition, (c. 1980) containing two garage openings and a recessed entrance in the northeast corner. This house is on the original grant of Lieutenant Moses Willard who came to Charlestown in 1742. It is not clear whether the house dates to the earliest period of settlement, or whether this house was preceded by an earlier house.31 This house is one of the earliest structures in the town center, its age indicated by the gentle slope of the gable roof and lack of projecting eaves. Over the years it has housed a tavern, store, storage place for wool, and residence and was converted to a two-family house c. 1839. Today it houses offices and apartments upstairs.