Yes it was a necessary for heat and cooking and not intieraly free it took a lot of hard work going out finding,chopping down trees transporting back to your home sted then chopping stacking it in a dry place then carrying in loads a day,building the fire and keeping it going throughout the days and night's. But that is how it was done🙄
In the basement the the sub-basement makes perfect sense, it was a cellar for foods like vegetables that need a cool dark place could to be stored, like cabbages and potatoes. So it did make sense. Everything they did in that house made since to them. Just like the fire places. Has anyone ever lived in a house that depended on fire places as they only heat source? If you have you know how cold they are. They had fireplaces to survive and the amount of work that had to be done to have enough wood to use in those fire places is mind blowing. I grew up in a house that used a wood stove and a fireplace for heat. I know how much work was put in to having enough wood for the winter. It took all spring, summer and fall to prepare for winter. Much love from Southeastern Kentucky, where some still use wood for heating! I’m coming from a place where off grid homesteads hundreds of years before it became popular! 😂
The house we just inherited from my dad has push button light switches and a crank doorbell!!! It has been in my family for 4 generations and 120 years!! Those switches are awesome!
The rooms that you said were nothing and not big enough for furniture would make a great room for a reading nook, a chair and small side table for a drink and to set your book or books on also a great sewing area with a sewing machine, chair and a shelf or two for clothing that needs to be repaired or some extra cloth to make something. Love that old house.
I hope they save it and restore it to the glory it would have been and open it to the public.This is a beautiful home and it would be sad to loose it.Usually the downstairs was rooms for servants,but later they just hired daily servants to help.Those holes in the basement would have been used for storage,could have been food.It would keep better down under the ground as it would be cooler there.But they would have had heavier wood doors to keep the cooler air in.Its an old way of keeping food longer.They may even have added blocks of ice too.But because it’s so mow below ground it’s naturally cooler..The fireplaces were beautiful.The brick one is a replacement .its out of character to the building..I love the house,it would have been gorgeous when it was first done.So sad to see it let go like this .Wonderful tour thank you 🥰
Awesome old house. The history of it is great, it's not usually that available. All the fireplaces are because that was the only source of heat. If you notice there's always a mirror above them. That's because candles were the only source of lighting, so they used alot of mirrors. I don't know what year it became common but they used a metal pan with a long handle on it for keeping warm at night. They would put hot coals from the fire in them and slide them under the bed to warm it. It's amazing the things they would do for comfort. I was really impressed with the basement stairs with the wear on each step from use. It's so sad to see these wonderful places demolished, there's so much history of this country that future generations will miss out on.
Glad there is now efforts by the locals to restore the building back to its former self. It has only been uninhabited for 20years. It is a amazing how quick nature can reclaim a home.
At 9:55 that woodwork is what holds the plaster to the wall. I’ve had the pleasure of touring the mansion with Heather Beach president of the foundation to restore it. I’ve drawn a picture of the mansion and plan on doing more. I hope your video increases positive interest. It was recently vandalized. Such a shame.
Do you ever, when researching pull pictures of how the house looked in its pristine state, and do a side by side in your videos? That would be awesome to see them back in the day! 22:28
This so-called second kitchen is the winter kitchen, where you cook in the wintertime and put it in the dining room. Within indoor plumbing, and that electric stove I would guess that building was or 30s with a knob and tube wiring with the pushbutton switches.
I love the fireplaces and the big parlor doors. From what I read, they housed baby calves in the basement and bottle fed them and kept them warm. I wonder if coal or wood was down in those floor hatches. I thought it was a cistern at first, but there's no water. Also it said the flowers had a heat source so she could grow certain flowers during the winter. Tyfs this. Your voice is magical.
I was thinking I saw animal stalls in the basement! Thanks for that! I'm guessing the "holes" in the basement were a root cellar to preserve vegetables over the winter.
This feels like disrepair came on quick for this beauty. 20 years is not that long, for it to go from prestine to rubble. So sad that foreign investors, just didn't care. It's a shame the buyers lied about their intentions.
I love these videos of old Mansions, especially since someone has bought it and wants to stop the damage right where it is!!! The GOOD thing that this mansion has lots of the original fireplace & staircases and woodwork !! There is a LOT of work to bb done, but most likely not as much as it looks like right now!! I subscribed just as you asked!!! Mushrooms can grown in any dark,, moist place. The one room you asked about earlier that was totally dark when you closed the door was most likely a room to store potatoes, apples and the like. My Grandmother had a room like that to keep her canned goods, veggies & fruit that needed to be in the dark. THANKS !!! Rick you are a ONE MAN CREW,, You Do it ALL and You Do a Wonderful Job!!! Now I am going to see what has been done for this wonderful old mansion so far!!!
Love that u get the backstory on the places u visit!!! The kitchen was the only room I saw any electrical outlets but if u noticed there’s radiator heaters in most of the bedrooms and in the basement is the radiator base where u put coal to go throughout and heat the rooms
This is an amazing, beautiful mansion. I don’t blame people if they don’t believe in ghosts if they have never experienced a ghost. I have had my experiences for sure. Thank you Rick for telling the story of the people behind this mansion. It’s incredible! You said they’d tearing this place down next month. Makes me sad. I think those bees you showed us looked like wasps to me, not sure?
@@sowhat7983 I doubt Rick was alone! If the mansion was affected during the Civil War then that hidden staircase below the basement floor would have made a perfect hiding place; perhaps it was even a part of the underground railroad.
Woodwork in this house is amazing. Hope someone does bring it back to its former glory as it would be beautiful. It would be a shame to tear it down especially after someone loved the home so much and lived there for 99 years. I can't imagine living in one place that long. Would make a beautiful hotel if nothing else. Thank you for showing it.
The room in the attic was the punishment room. Always hanging over the heads of the young or servants if they didn’t hop to do what they were told. Not storage because there was only a wooden bench/bed sized “shelf” and no other shelves. The eyes of the civil war officer were not pleasant. He would be used to the idea of a brig. The shaft in the floor of the basement, I gotta go with an updated version of jail rooms. They believed in heavy punishment in those days and it would be a more than difficult place to store things with just a latter and a 6x6 area to deal with a screen door above? (From the angle it didn’t look much bigger than that.). Good video! Thanks for your efforts and time to show us a wonderful building.
Not a sunroom but a back porch/mudroom service entry. Not a China hutch nor curio cabinet but a butlers pantry. Original kitchen would've been in the basement or in a detached bldg/kitchen. Lol domeroom nooo but a conservatory. Wealthy homes from that time period always had fireplaces in each room. No other source of heat at the time. All bathrooms added later. (Old outhouse pit/s would be an awesome find to dig out). Below the Plains on TH-cam finds amazing things in old pits. People had such style architecturally back then. All those architectural pieces will be removed and auctioned as salvage. Nice video ty. Basement pantry under those doors. Old coal furnace had to be down there somewhere.
OMG! I grew up in an older home with a wooden horse tie out and a granite post with a metal ring, out front. There were pocket doors and built in dressers in all the bedrooms. It was amazing... absolutely amazing and I loved it so much. Its on my bucket list to visit my childhood home, in California, before I leave this earth. I absolutely LOVE LOVE this video. BTW - the area 'inside outside' is either a butler's pantry or a pantry for storing canned goods (hence the sink) and has access beyond the delipidated patio to the garden outside. The 'sanitarium green' was most likely done in the 60s renovation as well as the flowery/vertical decor wallpaper @23:30 in the one room. You're killing me with the shower head LMAO!! Its not really that old given the age of the house. The bathroom tile is new too... which I'm sure you know. Its interesting there are 2 bathrooms next too each other. I wonder if that was to accommodate guests or servants. The area @24:00 is most likely the upstairs linen closet, hence all the shelving, windows (for freshness) and light. OMG I wish I was there with you... I'm totally fascinated by this home. The closet at 29:00 was most likely a built in at one point. It would have had a built in dresser with drawers up to that 1st broken shelf. There is probably another closet nearby for hanging items. If so, and if its like mine, there would have been storage above the closet all the way to the ceiling. The room in the attic looks like wood storage probably for the upstairs fireplaces but what is the brick structure at 30:05? I wonder if its some sort of dumbwaiter to bring the wood up?? Also, what was the ramp for??? I'm dying to know? I lost a bunch of my comments when I clicked the wrong button but the fireplace in the basement is for the servants and the area where you said chicken coop was the dining area for servants. The cellar pens are for chicken, rabbits and goats to eat and milk. the area where the water heater was looked like a milking room for a cow. I am so heartbroken they are tearing it down!! Its so worth saving. I LOVE THIS VIDEO and i'm so completely FACINATED by this tour!! Thank you!
I forgot to add that in the cellar - the storage under the mesh, in the ground is for potatoes, onions and anything else that needed to stay cool. Its much cooler in that area than it is in the cellar proper.
There's a Dunnington mansion foundation, and you can donate, but I'm not quite sure what you're donating too, but it has photos of what it looked like in all its glory and its wonderful, such ashamed its been left to rot like this so sad ,
The room in the basement could possibly be a cellar where most likely in the early days they would store their food beings there were no place to keep them cool, Absolutely beautiful
The room near the kitchen with (what you referred to as) the curio cabinet and "buffet" is the butlers pantry where they kept the fine China, crystal and silver dinnerware.
I 'm surprise others haven't looked into these properties when they're abandoned, sometimes you can get it for back Tax's , Each state has escheatment laws that determine when an asset is legally considered abandoned and how to recover such assets. it's a shame families out there don't team up and purchase these and fix them up .
No one could "team up" and purchase this property, as it already had an owner who wasn't interested in selling it. The Manor Golf Club has owned the property since about 1999 and originally intended to use the residence as the clubhouse but never followed through. The house continued to deteriorate.
The kitchen you showed us the first part here is what's known as a summer kitchen. Yes, that's a buffet for China to serve a meal out on that porch area in the summertime. Because they cooked on woodstove that gave off a lot of heat into the room, even in the summertime of fire is hot, they learned to have Cross ventilation in the summer and eat out on the porch for meals.
Sorry, I think maybe the term was "root cellar". They would store anything that needed refrigeration, probably even meat. The earth would keep them cool, but those were really big.
Your narrative is stunning. I would recommend quite strongly that you consider a career change. Don't stand in your own shadow, and then look back in 30 years' time, regretting your fear, which held you back. Nice work and congratulations on your channel going from strength to strength. All power to you Rick great explorer ..... Janice 👵 🇬🇧 xxx
Your favorite room was called a solarium. A sunroom or sun porch was too ordinary lol. It would have been full of beautiful plants, comfortable seating and possibly a nice dining table. Love the place. Another great vid
The closet you hung you clothes towards you, not like we do today sideways. Plus, they didn't have a lot of clothes back in those days. Maybe they had armors for their clothes, too.
Have seen this mansion in other video's, now for it's history RangerRick you are Amazing, why I am Subscribed... Just sad to see abandoned & like the 1 room, floor gone, instead of being restored for would be great to have tours .... Yes, saw the link, will check into... Thank You.
The little pot by the front entrance fireplace might have been to add moisture to the air. I used one on mine. Fireplace heat is very drying. Great video.
Yes my childhood home was built in 1800 s and moved and put back together with a huge addition. It was only a saltbox but central chimney and 3 fireplace down stairs and one in mawster. The Dr had a lagged cooking fil. It was very cool with numbered beams you could see in the bathroom in between the wa,LDS under the front stairs was a tiny room.made for coffins if they died in winter . They were kelt till spring. ! Love this stuff.
This is one of the most beautiful house.You do a wonderful job on your video, you go slow and let us see and dream or imagine how it must have looked like at one time.l hope you do more of these,thank you.
I think you're looking at the cistern in the days before water was piped into the house when that house was built they would have a cistern that they would draw water from in the house for cooking and bathing, and this sort of thing. Rainwater hit the roof and the runoff gathering would run the water into the cistern in the basement so they have plenty of water. When pressurize water came in in the form of community water source or even a self owned hand pump, they would use the water from the cistern for those above listed necessities. That's why I think you're looking down into a sister and somebody put those doors over it to keep people from falling into it.
One explanation for the small closets is because in those days for property tax purposes they counted each room and charged accordingly. If a closet was too large, walking in wise, it would be considered a separate room and taxed. This was before they bundled everything under one tax. Interesting 🤔 fact, they used to tax the items inside the house 🏠; the furniture and so on. Hence the reference by CCR in one of their songs.
What a home!! And you can really see the difference in the servants' area versus the main living area--the back staircase, the rooms back there--they still gave them a beautiful area to live in! I would love the schematic for this home lol! I love period homes and decor!! Great tour of a home with so many neat surprises in it!
That long corridor upstairs looks like the helps quarters. Ma grandparents had a mansion in Vermont on qtop of a met and above the kitchen there were stairs and 3-4 small bdr for help . It’s where I stayed with my friend when we visited.
This place can be saved. The last home in Madison Georgia on Main Street has finalky been remodeled. It is more of the Greek style. It was in terrible condition. Built before the civil war like a lot of the mansions in this pretty town. There's several Victorian homes also. I hope when the work is done,it's put on the tour of homes. Not long ago i drove by there an the outside looked like it was painted a light green. I thought oh no! White with black shutters is what the color should be. Glad to say that's the color it is now. The home had not been lived in for at least seventy years. A long time. But these homes were built of real wood. These homes stood the test if time just being neglected. No home built today would hold up seventy years of neglect. They would be long gone back into the ground.
Thanks!
Fireplace in every room in the 1800's was not a theme. It was a necessity dude!
I was hoping someone said this! Lol
Free energy back in that time somehow using fireplaces
@@AIOUY398 I 100% agree with you. I'm very familiar with that theory. So I'm way down that rabbit hole with you! 😊
Kinda like candles also 😂
Yes it was a necessary for heat and cooking and not intieraly free it took a lot of hard work going out finding,chopping down trees transporting back to your home sted then chopping stacking it in a dry place then carrying in loads a day,building the fire and keeping it going throughout the days and night's. But that is how it was done🙄
In the basement the the sub-basement makes perfect sense, it was a cellar for foods like vegetables that need a cool dark place could to be stored, like cabbages and potatoes. So it did make sense. Everything they did in that house made since to them. Just like the fire places. Has anyone ever lived in a house that depended on fire places as they only heat source? If you have you know how cold they are. They had fireplaces to survive and the amount of work that had to be done to have enough wood to use in those fire places is mind blowing. I grew up in a house that used a wood stove and a fireplace for heat. I know how much work was put in to having enough wood for the winter. It took all spring, summer and fall to prepare for winter. Much love from Southeastern Kentucky, where some still use wood for heating! I’m coming from a place where off grid homesteads hundreds of years before it became popular! 😂
Thanks!
Thank you Marjorie 😊
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Great house! It should be illegal to tear down historical houses.I hope they save this place.
I pray for this old mansion to be saved and restored to greatness again!!
He said it’s being torn down for a golf course
Twas there only system of heat!
@@manydogs5SERIOUSLY?!! THEN I'LL NOT WATCH IT! UGH 😢
This is Tammy......I hope it is saved as well.
The house we just inherited from my dad has push button light switches and a crank doorbell!!! It has been in my family for 4 generations and 120 years!! Those switches are awesome!
They’ll salvage them
@manydogs5 nobody is salvaging anything from MY grandma's house!! Not unless they want to be shot.
Good for you, Kate!!
The. Outside look. So spooky
The rooms that you said were nothing and not big enough for furniture would make a great room for a reading nook, a chair and small side table for a drink and to set your book or books on also a great sewing area with a sewing machine, chair and a shelf or two for clothing that needs to be repaired or some extra cloth to make something. Love that old house.
He talks too much😂
I hope they save it and restore it to the glory it would have been and open it to the public.This is a beautiful home and it would be sad to loose it.Usually the downstairs was rooms for servants,but later they just hired daily servants to help.Those holes in the basement would have been used for storage,could have been food.It would keep better down under the ground as it would be cooler there.But they would have had heavier wood doors to keep the cooler air in.Its an old way of keeping food longer.They may even have added blocks of ice too.But because it’s so mow below ground it’s naturally cooler..The fireplaces were beautiful.The brick one is a replacement .its out of character to the building..I love the house,it would have been gorgeous when it was first done.So sad to see it let go like this .Wonderful tour thank you 🥰
I love that old conservatory/greenhouse. It still is neat, but must have been just gorgeous back in the day,
Me too. So many homes from the 18-1900's had Orangeries, Conservatories or Solariums. They added such a touch of whimsical elegance to any home.
❤love this , know wonder she lived till 103, she didn't want to leave. Good job
I agree totally 💯
Awesome old house. The history of it is great, it's not usually that available.
All the fireplaces are because that was the only source of heat. If you notice there's always a mirror above them. That's because candles were the only source of lighting, so they used alot of mirrors. I don't know what year it became common but they used a metal pan with a long handle on it for keeping warm at night. They would put hot coals from the fire in them and slide them under the bed to warm it.
It's amazing the things they would do for comfort.
I was really impressed with the basement stairs with the wear on each step from use.
It's so sad to see these wonderful places demolished, there's so much history of this country that future generations will miss out on.
Thanks for filling us in and yes it's sad to see them go.
Thanks for watching and your input Lin.
The butler’s pantry is where you said was a curio cabinet, it usually is next to the kitchen.
Glad there is now efforts by the locals to restore the building back to its former self. It has only been uninhabited for 20years. It is a amazing how quick nature can reclaim a home.
The investors who own this beauty should be forced to restore or sell to someone who will
It is a plantation with a lot of history in Virginia you can find the real documentary on it on TH-cam family member and pictures are available
And help pay for the reconstruction!
At 9:55 that woodwork is what holds the plaster to the wall. I’ve had the pleasure of touring the mansion with Heather Beach president of the foundation to restore it. I’ve drawn a picture of the mansion and plan on doing more. I hope your video increases positive interest. It was recently vandalized. Such a shame.
Do you ever, when researching pull pictures of how the house looked in its pristine state, and do a side by side in your videos? That would be awesome to see them back in the day! 22:28
This so-called second kitchen is the winter kitchen, where you cook in the wintertime and put it in the dining room. Within indoor plumbing, and that electric stove I would guess that building was or 30s with a knob and tube wiring with the pushbutton switches.
There are a few pictures out there. Just have to google it
I love the fireplaces and the big parlor doors. From what I read, they housed baby calves in the basement and bottle fed them and kept them warm. I wonder if coal or wood was down in those floor hatches. I thought it was a cistern at first, but there's no water. Also it said the flowers had a heat source so she could grow certain flowers during the winter. Tyfs this. Your voice is magical.
I was thinking I saw animal stalls in the basement! Thanks for that! I'm guessing the "holes" in the basement were a root cellar to preserve vegetables over the winter.
If I was rich I would buy it and restore it. Homes like this will never be built again and need to be saved. Its beautiful.
This feels like disrepair came on quick for this beauty. 20 years is not that long, for it to go from prestine to rubble. So sad that foreign investors, just didn't care. It's a shame the buyers lied about their intentions.
I love these videos of old Mansions, especially since someone has bought it and wants to stop the damage right where it is!!! The GOOD thing that this mansion has lots of the original fireplace & staircases and woodwork !! There is a LOT of work to bb done, but most likely not as much as it looks like right now!! I subscribed just as you asked!!! Mushrooms can grown in any dark,, moist place. The one room you asked about earlier that was totally dark when you closed the door was most likely a room to store potatoes, apples and the like. My Grandmother had a room like that to keep her canned goods, veggies & fruit that needed to be in the dark. THANKS !!! Rick you are a ONE MAN CREW,, You Do it ALL and You Do a Wonderful Job!!! Now I am going to see what has been done for this wonderful old mansion so far!!!
Gives new meaning to the phrase “If these walls could talk.”
Thank you for bringing this piece of history to us👍👌🤔
Love that u get the backstory on the places u visit!!! The kitchen was the only room I saw any electrical outlets but if u noticed there’s radiator heaters in most of the bedrooms and in the basement is the radiator base where u put coal to go throughout and heat the rooms
It's a boiler. We have one in gran dmas house. Ours is a coal furnace and a boiler.
This is an amazing, beautiful mansion. I don’t blame people if they don’t believe in ghosts if they have never experienced a ghost. I have had my experiences for sure.
Thank you Rick for telling the story of the people behind this mansion. It’s incredible! You said they’d tearing this place down next month. Makes me sad. I think those bees you showed us looked like wasps to me, not sure?
I went twice, the first time was 3 years ago and said they are going to tear it down. Now in 2023 they are trying to bring it back to life.
@@RangerRickTV good! That makes me happy. I enjoy these historic mansions and their beauty and craftsmanship.
@@sowhat7983 I doubt Rick was alone! If the mansion was affected during the Civil War then that hidden staircase below the basement floor would have made a perfect hiding place; perhaps it was even a part of the underground railroad.
@@jeanhansel5805thinking underground railroad also
@@RangerRickTVthat would be wounderfull if someone saved and preserved this beautiful history ❤
Woodwork in this house is amazing. Hope someone does bring it back to its former glory as it would be beautiful. It would be a shame to tear it down especially after someone loved the home so much and lived there for 99 years. I can't imagine living in one place that long. Would make a beautiful hotel if nothing else. Thank you for showing it.
The room in the attic was the punishment room. Always hanging over the heads of the young or servants if they didn’t hop to do what they were told. Not storage because there was only a wooden bench/bed sized “shelf” and no other shelves. The eyes of the civil war officer were not pleasant. He would be used to the idea of a brig. The shaft in the floor of the basement, I gotta go with an updated version of jail rooms. They believed in heavy punishment in those days and it would be a more than difficult place to store things with just a latter and a 6x6 area to deal with a screen door above? (From the angle it didn’t look much bigger than that.). Good video! Thanks for your efforts and time to show us a wonderful building.
I said punishment for slaves
Not a sunroom but a back porch/mudroom service entry. Not a China hutch nor curio cabinet but a butlers pantry. Original kitchen would've been in the basement or in a detached bldg/kitchen. Lol domeroom nooo but a conservatory. Wealthy homes from that time period always had fireplaces in each room. No other source of heat at the time. All bathrooms added later. (Old outhouse pit/s would be an awesome find to dig out). Below the Plains on TH-cam finds amazing things in old pits. People had such style architecturally back then. All those architectural pieces will be removed and auctioned as salvage. Nice video ty. Basement pantry under those doors. Old coal furnace had to be down there somewhere.
OMG! I grew up in an older home with a wooden horse tie out and a granite post with a metal ring, out front. There were pocket doors and built in dressers in all the bedrooms. It was amazing... absolutely amazing and I loved it so much. Its on my bucket list to visit my childhood home, in California, before I leave this earth. I absolutely LOVE LOVE this video. BTW - the area 'inside outside' is either a butler's pantry or a pantry for storing canned goods (hence the sink) and has access beyond the delipidated patio to the garden outside. The 'sanitarium green' was most likely done in the 60s renovation as well as the flowery/vertical decor wallpaper @23:30 in the one room. You're killing me with the shower head LMAO!! Its not really that old given the age of the house. The bathroom tile is new too... which I'm sure you know. Its interesting there are 2 bathrooms next too each other. I wonder if that was to accommodate guests or servants. The area @24:00 is most likely the upstairs linen closet, hence all the shelving, windows (for freshness) and light. OMG I wish I was there with you... I'm totally fascinated by this home. The closet at 29:00 was most likely a built in at one point. It would have had a built in dresser with drawers up to that 1st broken shelf. There is probably another closet nearby for hanging items. If so, and if its like mine, there would have been storage above the closet all the way to the ceiling. The room in the attic looks like wood storage probably for the upstairs fireplaces but what is the brick structure at 30:05? I wonder if its some sort of dumbwaiter to bring the wood up?? Also, what was the ramp for??? I'm dying to know? I lost a bunch of my comments when I clicked the wrong button but the fireplace in the basement is for the servants and the area where you said chicken coop was the dining area for servants. The cellar pens are for chicken, rabbits and goats to eat and milk. the area where the water heater was looked like a milking room for a cow. I am so heartbroken they are tearing it down!! Its so worth saving. I LOVE THIS VIDEO and i'm so completely FACINATED by this tour!! Thank you!
I forgot to add that in the cellar - the storage under the mesh, in the ground is for potatoes, onions and anything else that needed to stay cool. Its much cooler in that area than it is in the cellar proper.
There's a Dunnington mansion foundation, and you can donate, but I'm not quite sure what you're donating too, but it has photos of what it looked like in all its glory and its wonderful, such ashamed its been left to rot like this so sad ,
That metal piece is upside down, it looks like a fancy wood holder for the fireplace.
The room in the basement could possibly be a cellar where most likely in the early days they would store their food beings there were no place to keep them cool, Absolutely beautiful
I love the big rooms in older homes today they make the rooms so small
Making playlists with your videos and history underground videos brings me so much joy, relaxation, and peacefulness 🖤
In front of the foyer fireplace may be a steaming pot to put moisture in the air.
The room near the kitchen with (what you referred to as) the curio cabinet and "buffet" is the butlers pantry where they kept the fine China, crystal and silver dinnerware.
I 'm surprise others haven't looked into these properties when they're abandoned, sometimes you can get it for back Tax's , Each state has escheatment laws that determine when an asset is legally considered abandoned and how to recover such assets. it's a shame families out there don't team up and purchase these and fix them up .
No one could "team up" and purchase this property, as it already had an owner who wasn't interested in selling it. The Manor Golf Club has owned the property since about 1999 and originally intended to use the residence as the clubhouse but never followed through. The house continued to deteriorate.
The kitchen you showed us the first part here is what's known as a summer kitchen. Yes, that's a buffet for China to serve a meal out on that porch area in the summertime. Because they cooked on woodstove that gave off a lot of heat into the room, even in the summertime of fire is hot, they learned to have Cross ventilation in the summer and eat out on the porch for meals.
Hi Rick, I think the holes in the basement are what they called a "cold cellar" before refrigeration.
Do you know it was used to store?
Sorry, I think maybe the term was "root cellar". They would store anything that needed refrigeration, probably even meat. The earth would keep them cool, but those were really big.
Your narrative is stunning.
I would recommend quite strongly that you consider a career change.
Don't stand in your own shadow, and then look back in 30 years' time, regretting your fear, which held you back.
Nice work and congratulations on your channel going from strength to strength.
All power to you Rick great explorer .....
Janice 👵 🇬🇧 xxx
Your favorite room was called a solarium. A sunroom or sun porch was too ordinary lol. It would have been full of beautiful plants, comfortable seating and possibly a nice dining table.
Love the place. Another great vid
They kept some of their farm animals in the basement and I would imagine they processed stuff from the garden.
Fireplaces were for heat, that’s why they are in every room & the hallways. Really nice home.
whenever I see these old and empty places, I wonder who lived there and what took place in there.
If you freeze frame at 8:16 you caught a pretty good ghost shot I believe! Lady in purple sweater!
The closet you hung you clothes towards you, not like we do today sideways. Plus, they didn't have a lot of clothes back in those days. Maybe they had armors for their clothes, too.
What an amazing gem you've found. It's ashamed that it's just rotting away.
Have seen this mansion in other video's, now for it's history RangerRick you are Amazing, why I am Subscribed... Just sad to see abandoned & like the 1 room, floor gone, instead of being restored for would be great to have tours .... Yes, saw the link, will check into... Thank You.
That “closet “ next to a fireplace was more likely a space to hold firewood
It's the business agent's that give a hoot about the old mansion. It's the money that talk's what ever it isthat bring's the most revenue in!
Exactly!
Such a big house and a dinky, small kitchen! If house restored ($$$) would have to have a grand kitchen. If torn down lots could be salvaged.
This old house is still beautiful hope it's not tore down love this explore thanks for taking me along.
The little pot by the front entrance fireplace might have been to add moisture to the air. I used one on mine. Fireplace heat is very drying. Great video.
A good video on what was a lovely mansion. Thank you Carol from California
Your a great investigator my friend i love the paranormal and investigating and knowing the history of places.
Yes my childhood home was built in 1800 s and moved and put back together with a huge addition. It was only a saltbox but central chimney and 3 fireplace down stairs and one in mawster. The Dr had a lagged cooking fil. It was very cool with numbered beams you could see in the bathroom in between the wa,LDS under the front stairs was a tiny room.made for coffins if they died in winter . They were kelt till spring. ! Love this stuff.
There’s a non profit trying to save the mansion. Consider donating.
You are a very good writer. Merry Christmas.
Same to you 😁
I had that same shower curtain and comforter back in the mid 90's except they were in red, same pattern.
That river in back probably contributes to the seafood smell.
That’s why we have to be careful who we do business with not all money is go money!
This makes me feel so sad 😢!!!
What a brilliant and respectful intro 😊
This is Tammy.....Basement is food storage areas......Small rooms make a good tea room sitting or reading.
This place is definitely Amazing!!!
It really is!
That would be a nice place to live at back in the day.
Yup
The front house section appears circa 1890’s, the rear section is much older
What a beauty so sad hope it is restored to it's former glory !
The trap doors in the basement are for keeping things cool, there wasn’t refrigeration back in the day & cooling only happened underground
In the 1800’s the only heat was the fireplaces that’s why one in every room.😊😮
This is one of the most beautiful house.You do a wonderful job on your video, you go slow and let us see and dream or imagine how it must have looked like at one time.l hope you do more of these,thank you.
Nice looking green dome
Very!
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About the sales is sickening 😩!!!
It's in Farmville and it's being restored
The green house probably grew lemons an oranges. Other tropical plants.
I think the hole in the basement floor is where they stored old to keep it cool before refrigeration.
I think you're looking at the cistern in the days before water was piped into the house when that house was built they would have a cistern that they would draw water from in the house for cooking and bathing, and this sort of thing. Rainwater hit the roof and the runoff gathering would run the water into the cistern in the basement so they have plenty of water. When pressurize water came in in the form of community water source or even a self owned hand pump, they would use the water from the cistern for those above listed necessities. That's why I think you're looking down into a sister and somebody put those doors over it to keep people from falling into it.
... they definitely lived a full life in that home! BEAUTIFUL
This place looks so sad to see 😢
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Good job, Rick. Impressive find!
If you looked closer at brick there maybe finger prints
If she was living in it for 99 years, it wasn't abandoned
One explanation for the small closets is because in those days for property tax purposes they counted each room and charged accordingly. If a closet was too large, walking in wise, it would be considered a separate room and taxed. This was before they bundled everything under one tax. Interesting 🤔 fact, they used to tax the items inside the house 🏠; the furniture and so on. Hence the reference by CCR in one of their songs.
What a home!! And you can really see the difference in the servants' area versus the main living area--the back staircase, the rooms back there--they still gave them a beautiful area to live in! I would love the schematic for this home lol! I love period homes and decor!! Great tour of a home with so many neat surprises in it!
In the basement, I believe that area with the doors on the floor to be a root cellar. Maybe.
I don’t love wallpaper but why is it so cool
Any place can be saved!
At 35:03 the ceiling panels would open up when it was cared for. All this damage in 20 years. So sad.
I never understand why these homes weren’t sold off
It was sold off then left to decay by the developer who bought it.
That long corridor upstairs looks like the helps quarters. Ma grandparents had a mansion in Vermont on qtop of a met and above the kitchen there were stairs and 3-4 small bdr for help . It’s where I stayed with my friend when we visited.
What a beautiful gem this historical mansion was, is, and would be again wiith tender loving care.
Love this house already, the potential for my brood’s benefit… 0:32
The staircase in the cellar is where you would keep your cold goods for storage
How do think the people kelp warm there was no other source of warmth
it is going to cost alot of money to make livable, wouldn,t be surprized if it cost 300 400 thousand dollers or more,
How else would you heat a building that size without fireplaces in every room?l imagine it was very cold in winter.
I don't blame India for living to such an advanced age - who would EVER want to leave this glorious structure?
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I'm totally happy you are!
Thank you it’s so beautiful I wish I had like this house it’s a lot of memoryIn my mind about it
This place can be saved. The last home in Madison Georgia on Main Street has finalky been remodeled. It is more of the Greek style. It was in terrible condition. Built before the civil war like a lot of the mansions in this pretty town. There's several Victorian homes also. I hope when the work is done,it's put on the tour of homes. Not long ago i drove by there an the outside looked like it was painted a light green. I thought oh no! White with black shutters is what the color should be. Glad to say that's the color it is now. The home had not been lived in for at least seventy years. A long time. But these homes were built of real wood. These homes stood the test if time just being neglected. No home built today would hold up seventy years of neglect. They would be long gone back into the ground.