Figure 29  Detail showing the casing for the door leading from the parlor into the kitchen of the Mabee House, 1710-1750. (Photo, Gavin Ashworth.) This casing is associated with a door cut through the gable of the earlier part of the house when a new front room was added. The exact date of the addition is not known; however, local families always regarded the earlier house as the oldest surviving structure in the Mohawk Valley; it has been dated as early as 1680.