Every time i see a field stone house i see the hard labor it took to fetch the stones,load them up in a horse drawn wagon then offload them at the homesite, and then stack em and cement them in place and go get more stones and repeat over and over while going higher and higher. Some of those corner stones look big and heavy..How many of todays workers would quit after doing less than 1 row? The craftsmanship of the past was amazing. Back breaking work, indeed!
Hi Cliff happy New Year, I hope your over your melancholy mood for the holidays, just remember Cliff you have a big family here in the u-tube world who appreciates you and cares a lot about you
Always be so very careful walking around those old home places, there could be an open well somewhere that has been covered by leaves and debris. Great story!!!❤
He reads them but doesn't have time to respond to every comment. This is not his only source of income; he's a teacher and so is busy doing that as well.
I've been to old places that had deep wells. Cistern wells are essentially dangerous. Always take great caution at places like that. A couple of the places wells still had murky water in them.
That metal thing you were wondering about looks like a water pressure tank. It’s full of water that’s pumped into it which expands a rubber bladder and that creates water pressure when you turn on a faucet..
Happy new year!! So years ago, my husband and I went there to walk around and check it out (we lived extremely close at the time). Long story short, police apparently patrol the area more than regularly because of “extra marital activities” shall we say. Needless to say, we left and laughed. We kinda had to convince the officer we were just into history and already married to each other 😂
Stove looks like from the 1950's. The metal bar with the hole at the end is a weight for windows. The newer extension of the house could the haunted section. If you look at the nails head you would able to tell when it was added. The round head nails started to come in around 1900's maybe as early as 1890's. The long bar with ceramic knobs are for electric. Maybe between 1920's or 1930's.
Didn’t feel spooky to me just tragic. Well Cliff you found your new home, when you starting to bring it back into life. Loved that, the stonework is brilliant. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
They are lath and horsehair plaster walls. That is an old electric stove (50's 60's). Don't ask me how I know. They were 8"-12" wider than a "standard " stove and usually had a storage drawer beside the oven.
My friend's old house was made of house hair and mud. But it caught fire and the inside was burned. They rebuilt the stairs to the 2nd floor and allowed all the cats people dumped off there live in the home. Her mom made shelters for the kitties so they can stay warm. At one time she had over 100 cats. But slowly found homes for some who wasn't feral and slowly got each of them fixed.
Very nice video! My husband is a master carpenter and wanted you to know that the lintels (top piece of wood on the window's frame) don't appear to him to be original to the house if it was built in the early-1800s (if that is when the stone part was built). That's because they appear to be lumber mill boards instead of hand hewn. This is also true of the plaster lath under the plaster of the walls. He thinks it is definitely milled lumber not crude, early-saw mill or hand hewn lumber. Also, he's not sure that is a sash weight you found--could be a weight for a set of scales. They are typically round (no squared edges) so they slip easily up and down when you open and shut the window. In addition, there didn't appear to be any pockets beside the windows for the sash chords or slots for the chord in the window jams (horizontal part) and sash weights weren't typically used in short double-hung windows. It's hard to really say with absolute certainty about these things just from a video, but that's how things appear to be. P.S. "6 over 1" pane windows, meaning a window with 6 smaller panes in the top sash and 1 large pane in the bottom sash, would have likely first appeared in homes during the mid-to-late 19th century--which seems to mean that the windows in the stone part of the house were not original (aka part of an early-1800s home). They maybe were put in when the wooden addition was added, maybe around 1880 if the nails in that section are square headed as they appeared in the video.
Sorry if I keep harping on this but I just dont know if you read comments! The "buyme a coffe link" is a great way for us to support you and show how much we appreciate what you do. Thanks Cliff!
Brave owner could demo and clear the land. Save salvageable materials. Build a stone fence and determine if a well can be drilled. Use a camper before building to determine if you will be allowed to co-habitate. Never know. Thanks!
That was a cool video. I was wondering if you would find a doll part or a clown head. Now, that is a creepy thought. It must have been a very beautiful home long ago. Happy New Year Cliff.🎉
Once the roof goes, the rest follows. Sad to see a stone house left to rot. Be careful! All you need to see is a dismembered doll, and you'd be out of there in a flash!
My parents lived outside of Norristown and I recall seeing quite a few derelict houses back from the 76 in Montgomery County. I always wondered about those.
I realize this is a fantasy , as my twin sons are 40yrs old and we live in Oregon .. Yet I wish my boys could of had you for a teacher , gee whiz , I wish I could of had you for teacher Sir .. God bless you & yours Sir ..
What a neat place! I bet it was beautiful in its day. I think that stove was electric and those pipes looked like gas pipes. Where did the electric lines run to? I didn't see any poles or wires along the road. Loved this one. HAPPY NEW YEAR and be safe❤❤❤❤❤
I remember when you experimented with a drone a few years back. Ever think about trying that again? Some of the areas you visit would be great for aerial views.
@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 There are plenty of good ones with a reasonable price. DJI mini 4K is your best bet for an entry model of good quality. Either way, keep up the good work!
OG tarik from Philly salute WANDERING WOODSMAN PENNSYLVANIA IS IN THE BUILDING 🏢🏫. FAM DO MORE OF THE PARANORMAL AND ABANDONED STRUCTURES. SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON PEOPLE HAPPY NEW YEARS 🎈🎉🎊🐲👑💯👍🏿✌🏿💪🏿🙏🏿🐲👻🧛🧞♀️👽👽
Cool video, live haunted buildings and stories. Suggestion though and not to sound prunish but next time maybe whiting out the graffiti. I'm sorry you do such a good job. Thanks
I was recently watching a TH-cam video where an Austrian man was marveling at some stone walls and ruins in his local area, asking his audience if aliens built them... "because one would need high technology to arrange these stones in such a way". I was like...👀 I wanted to say, "Your heretic cousins built homes exactly like that in Pennsylvania in the 1700-1800s".... I appreciate the lack of annoying background music and lack of "fluff" in these videos!
Every time i see a field stone house i see the hard labor it took to fetch the stones,load them up in a horse drawn wagon then offload them at the homesite, and then stack em and cement them in place and go get more stones and repeat over and over while going higher and higher. Some of those corner stones look big and heavy..How many of todays workers would quit after doing less than 1 row? The craftsmanship of the past was amazing. Back breaking work, indeed!
Hi Cliff happy New Year, I hope your over your melancholy mood for the holidays, just remember Cliff you have a big family here in the u-tube world who appreciates you and cares a lot about you
Always be so very careful walking around those old home places, there could be an open well somewhere that has been covered by leaves and debris. Great story!!!❤
I was just about to say that.
He reads them but doesn't have time to respond to every comment. This is not his only source of income; he's a teacher and so is busy doing that as well.
I've been to old places that had deep wells. Cistern wells are essentially dangerous. Always take great caution at places like that. A couple of the places wells still had murky water in them.
I think that metal tank in the ground is an old water cistern. Great video!
That metal thing you were wondering about looks like a water pressure tank. It’s full of water that’s pumped into it which expands a rubber bladder and that creates water pressure when you turn on a faucet..
Those boards on the interior walls are called laths. They were put in place so you could plaster over them. Stay safe.
Happy new year!! So years ago, my husband and I went there to walk around and check it out (we lived extremely close at the time). Long story short, police apparently patrol the area more than regularly because of “extra marital activities” shall we say. Needless to say, we left and laughed. We kinda had to convince the officer we were just into history and already married to each other 😂
Stove looks like from the 1950's. The metal bar with the hole at the end is a weight for windows. The newer extension of the house could the haunted section. If you look at the nails head you would able to tell when it was added. The round head nails started to come in around 1900's maybe as early as 1890's. The long bar with ceramic knobs are for electric. Maybe between 1920's or 1930's.
The outside that you called "plasterboard" would have been stucco. A masonry mix applied with a trowel.
The supports above the windows are called lintels
love the video , makes me wonder what the house looked like when it was newly constructed before the addition.... Happy New Year Cliff
Thank you for preserving Pennsylvania history; what a find,!
Didn’t feel spooky to me just tragic. Well Cliff you found your new home, when you starting to bring it back into life. Loved that, the stonework is brilliant. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
They are lath and horsehair plaster walls. That is an old electric stove (50's 60's). Don't ask me how I know. They were 8"-12" wider than a "standard " stove and usually had a storage drawer beside the oven.
My friend's old house was made of house hair and mud. But it caught fire and the inside was burned. They rebuilt the stairs to the 2nd floor and allowed all the cats people dumped off there live in the home. Her mom made shelters for the kitties so they can stay warm. At one time she had over 100 cats. But slowly found homes for some who wasn't feral and slowly got each of them fixed.
Very nice video! My husband is a master carpenter and wanted you to know that the lintels (top piece of wood on the window's frame) don't appear to him to be original to the house if it was built in the early-1800s (if that is when the stone part was built). That's because they appear to be lumber mill boards instead of hand hewn. This is also true of the plaster lath under the plaster of the walls. He thinks it is definitely milled lumber not crude, early-saw mill or hand hewn lumber.
Also, he's not sure that is a sash weight you found--could be a weight for a set of scales. They are typically round (no squared edges) so they slip easily up and down when you open and shut the window. In addition, there didn't appear to be any pockets beside the windows for the sash chords or slots for the chord in the window jams (horizontal part) and sash weights weren't typically used in short double-hung windows. It's hard to really say with absolute certainty about these things just from a video, but that's how things appear to be.
P.S. "6 over 1" pane windows, meaning a window with 6 smaller panes in the top sash and 1 large pane in the bottom sash, would have likely first appeared in homes during the mid-to-late 19th century--which seems to mean that the windows in the stone part of the house were not original (aka part of an early-1800s home). They maybe were put in when the wooden addition was added, maybe around 1880 if the nails in that section are square headed as they appeared in the video.
Sorry if I keep harping on this but I just dont know if you read comments! The "buyme a coffe link" is a great way for us to support you and show how much we appreciate what you do. Thanks Cliff!
Brave owner could demo and clear the land. Save salvageable materials. Build a stone fence and determine if a well can be drilled. Use a camper before building to determine if you will be allowed to co-habitate. Never know. Thanks!
That stove still looks in pretty good shape.
Probably a beautiful stone home at one point in time left to the elements and nature to take over
Nothing better than some ruins, happy new year Cliff.
🎉happy new year cliff! I have sent you a fun tshirt which comes next week!!!😊🎉❤❤
Nice find! I love the old abandoned places, stories the land and houses could tell if people would listen.
I would love to go metal detecting up there. I gotta find out where this place is.
That piece of iron looks like an old " double hung window weight " ...
Cool find.Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎈🎉🎉🪅🪅🎈
Cool Abandoned houses again love your videos. Happy new year’s
I guess this house doesn’t qualify to be on the “I could live here” list 😂 Happy New Year!
There you go Cliff! A bit of a fixer upper. 😂 You can hone your masonry skills on this one. 👍
Boy could you.
Love when you take us to haunted spots 👻
Cool video, Happy New Year Cliff! 🎉
Awesome…..
Happy New Year’s Eve !
I've recently started to watch her videos and have already visited a place she went to in South NJ!
Awesome look at history..I could totally live there!!
That was a cool video. I was wondering if you would find a doll part or a clown head. Now, that is a creepy thought. It must have been a very beautiful home long ago. Happy New Year Cliff.🎉
My thought as well!!
Once the roof goes, the rest follows. Sad to see a stone house left to rot. Be careful! All you need to see is a dismembered doll, and you'd be out of there in a flash!
wouldn't be awesome to see a picture of it back in it's day
My parents lived outside of Norristown and I recall seeing quite a few derelict houses back from the 76 in Montgomery County. I always wondered about those.
Wish I knew what part of the county this is, I grew up there and have no clue…
I realize this is a fantasy , as my twin sons are 40yrs old and we live in Oregon .. Yet I wish my boys could of had you for a teacher , gee whiz , I wish I could of had you for teacher Sir .. God bless you & yours Sir ..
What a neat place! I bet it was beautiful in its day. I think that stove was electric and those pipes looked like gas pipes. Where did the electric lines run to? I didn't see any poles or wires along the road. Loved this one. HAPPY NEW YEAR and be safe❤❤❤❤❤
Happy new year cliff
I remember when you experimented with a drone a few years back. Ever think about trying that again? Some of the areas you visit would be great for aerial views.
Thinking about it...
@@thewanderingwoodsman7227 There are plenty of good ones with a reasonable price. DJI mini 4K is your best bet for an entry model of good quality. Either way, keep up the good work!
Those boards on the wall that get plastered over are called lattes or slats.
Lath
Folklore, Myths and Legends don’t have to be true. Just entertaining.
Happy new year Cliff. Looking forward to 2025 with ya.
Lathing, most likely covered with horse hair plaster. This is how my house is made.
correction: was made.
Old Style. Worked real well back then.
@@cliffordfreeman7829 Yes, my house will 175 years old next year and I am only the third owner. I love my house!
@suewarner1781 The old ones got the most charm and pleasant feel to them.
I am into metal detecting, is it possible to get the loco from you?
Old Baptist Rd. Murder House. Worcester PA Montgomery Co. orbs, blue lights & ghost dogs 🐶👻
3:04 - " _lattice_ " , is the style/type of walling that you're referring to.
Stripping lath…..
I can remember your big foot encounter. 😂
Yeah ,I saw this on another video.But she said there was no evidence of that happening.
Still looks cool 👻
What’s the other channel?
OG tarik from Philly salute WANDERING WOODSMAN PENNSYLVANIA IS IN THE BUILDING 🏢🏫. FAM DO MORE OF THE PARANORMAL AND ABANDONED STRUCTURES. SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON PEOPLE HAPPY NEW YEARS 🎈🎉🎊🐲👑💯👍🏿✌🏿💪🏿🙏🏿🐲👻🧛🧞♀️👽👽
You are crazy for going inside. Lol you made me nervous and I know you are safe because you posted this video. Lol
If u knew the address or someone who could help u with more info u could look it up.
Which would come first, the deed or the demon?
Cool video, live haunted buildings and stories. Suggestion though and not to sound prunish but next time maybe whiting out the graffiti. I'm sorry you do such a good job. Thanks
She didn't show all u are .
Let me guess: you could live here
Oh my Cliff, ghost'sand goblin's,panthers and bigfoot,time to grow up,your a big boy now.
Don’t watch. There’s an option….
I was recently watching a TH-cam video where an Austrian man was marveling at some stone walls and ruins in his local area, asking his audience if aliens built them... "because one would need high technology to arrange these stones in such a way".
I was like...👀
I wanted to say, "Your heretic cousins built homes exactly like that in Pennsylvania in the 1700-1800s"....
I appreciate the lack of annoying background music and lack of "fluff" in these videos!