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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you only would have told us the history of the house, it would had been great... I have to turn off the volume. Your excessive talking ruins the experience.
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.
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
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.
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 🥰
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Would be nice if someone whoever millionaires save this mansion for business as breakfast bed or hotel with restaurant but oh well I been watched this mansion since few years ago with different peoples who video this it getting fell apart down hope someone save this before someone gave up to torn down !
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.
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.
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.
The little room in the attic was usually for storage. Sometimes they would build them out of cedar, and usecthem for furcoats and other winter clothes. Maybe they where for luggage. But anything, really, that you might want to protect a little extra. There was one room in the basement, the one with the fireplace. I almost wondered, if it had been the original kitchen, or a preproom? But certainly they needed the space to keep all the coal and different foods, etc. The "radiator" was the old heater, that kept the house and orangerie warm. The hole in the floor could have been for ice, and things that neede to be kept extra cool? Or, well, since they would keep calfes in the basement in winter, then maybe that was for chickens? 😂 The "furniture", by the ground floor kitchen, was the butlers pantry, used to keep all sorts of servingdishes, plates, silverware and glasses. It must have been absolutely heartbreaking for the Bolts, to sell the place on good fait, and then it is just left to r
America is horrible on most homestead's like this. They rather demolish it build something new, but yet claim the land is historical. We were rentivating our main street and there was a couple of historical homes and chose the best of them to keep. It was built in 1870 3 story home massive wood carvings and original for the time period. It cost the city a lot of money to move it 2 blocks from my home until they could find a piece of land to put it on. After 6 mths. they sold off anything and everything that was valuable and then tore it down. I sat out there and cried!! I was happy I was able to tour this Beautiful home before they moved it. Our Historical Society in some states are the worst!!! You go to other countries and they have so many historical sites. America not so much. I hope they repair this home it's Absolutely Beautiful!!❤
The Dexter rooms in the basement was probably used for staff that serve the master and his wife. Remember, this was built during slave times in the US so many escaped slaves would be hired for hardly more than the place to live and food to eat for a few pennies a dayto help look after the house.
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.
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.
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
Wow what a tour really enjoyed it and found it very exciting you made me laugh about the bees and the spiders what a wonderful place I wish I could own it and live in it thank you for sharing ❤
When boidt(?) Sold the house didn't he ask what the plans were for the house? Personally, ,if the house meant so much to him and wanted it preserved, why didn't he get It in writing as part of the bill of sale?
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.
I like the concept of videos! However having grown up in a 150 mansion built by great grandfather and then it went through a major renovation in 1920s by my grandfather who was born in 1887. Lead paint and asbestos wear used in all paint. Period. Asbestos was used as insulation in the walls., interior ceilings and exterior siding , fireplaces, floors , doors and on electrical insulation on electrical wiring. For own your safery and well being you should be wearing at a minimum a respirator and it wouldnt hurt to wear over your clothing a disposable synehetic jumpsuit to keep from carrying these known carcinogens in your car and inside your home. One suggestion if you want to wear the respirator on camera is to shoot.the video wearing protective gear and then do the voice over? You're smart guy I'm sure you can figire this out to achieve what you want without risking your life. Oh and I have even mentioned black mold which is often is that sweet smell in these old abandoned mansions which often is hidden behind walls and can develop in some miseble upper respiratory and other symptons after exposure especially for those who are allergic to mold. My only brother dies unexpectedly in May of this from a form of very aggressive cancer which was due was to roccupational exposure to known cancer causing materials and chemicals. I miss him very especially at Christmas. My brother didnt know or otherwise he woukd worn a respirator and protective clothing. I dont want your loved ones to go through the agony, pain and suffering he endured and the undescribable sorrow and sense of loss our family that we experiencing now.
The documentary on this plantation is on you tube it is historical dude find out you facts first !!! Your putting totally wrong info !!! Family members are still around for this place dude !!!!
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.
We elderly people like to look at documentaries of years, gone by. Of the past they showed us the lovely pictures of the homes are people and celebrity hangouts speaking well with no music in the background. We elderly people have hearing problems, and some cannot afford hearing aids, so we are unable sadly to look or listen to your videos. We will not subscribe to anything we don’t enjoy because of the loud music background which is absolutely unnecessary!!!!😢
Wishvyou had focused more on the windows and the camera moves so fast I got dizzy! Try to slow down when giving panorama views. Other than that...great tour.
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.
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.
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.
I appreciate the effort You took and filming this video to ensure Continuity!I really like to understand where I am in a building!You really Make the viewer Feel Like they are there!I hate to tell you but that this smell you smell might be dead raccoon!
The room within the basement is most likely a safe room from tornados and/or emergencies. And every room with a fireplace is bc they didn't have central air and heating system like how we do nowadays lol 😂. It was necessary for a room to have a fireplace to keep warm. Why do u think they wore so many layers of clothing wayyyy back then?
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 .
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.
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 ,
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🙄
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.
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! 😂
Great house! It should be illegal to tear down historical houses.I hope they save this place.
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 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😂
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!
❤love this , know wonder she lived till 103, she didn't want to leave. Good job
I agree totally 💯
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.
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.
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.
Nature is never a vandel. If anything himan are tge vandels of nature
Wouldn't India be so distraught if she could see her home today
The butler’s pantry is where you said was a curio cabinet, it usually is next to the kitchen.
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
In the 1800’s the only heat was the fireplaces that’s why one in every room.😊😮
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.
That “closet “ next to a fireplace was more likely a space to hold firewood
The original owner bought it in 1826, its very old!
Very.
If you only would have told us the history of the house, it would had been great...
I have to turn off the volume. Your excessive talking ruins the experience.
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.
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
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 ❤
Get your hand out of the shot. I saw more of your big hairy arm than the place. Say less. Let the place speak for itself sometimes.
this guy likes to hear himself!
What an amazing gem you've found. It's ashamed that it's just rotting away.
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 🥰
Fireplaces were for heat, that’s why they are in every room & the hallways. Really nice home.
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.
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
Root Cellar
Making playlists with your videos and history underground videos brings me so much joy, relaxation, and peacefulness 🖤
Don’t you guess slaves lived here
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.
How else would you heat a building that size without fireplaces in every room?l imagine it was very cold in winter.
Ive watched a lot of people that explore abandoned places. This guy doesnt impress me. On the contrary
Thanks for your viewership!
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.
Mushrooms grow where it's damp and dark, Lord knows I've picked my share of them - edible of course!
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!!!
That would be a nice place to live at back in the day.
Yup
Would be nice if someone whoever millionaires save this mansion for business as breakfast bed or hotel with restaurant but oh well I been watched this mansion since few years ago with different peoples who video this it getting fell apart down hope someone save this before someone gave up to torn down !
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.
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.
If you looked closer at brick there maybe finger prints
The trap doors in the basement are for keeping things cool, there wasn’t refrigeration back in the day & cooling only happened underground
I wish people would just give up these places when they can't afford them. Let some historical society purchase them.
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.
At 35:03 the ceiling panels would open up when it was cared for. All this damage in 20 years. So sad.
The little room in the attic was usually for storage. Sometimes they would build them out of cedar, and usecthem for furcoats and other winter clothes. Maybe they where for luggage. But anything, really, that you might want to protect a little extra. There was one room in the basement, the one with the fireplace. I almost wondered, if it had been the original kitchen, or a preproom? But certainly they needed the space to keep all the coal and different foods, etc. The "radiator" was the old heater, that kept the house and orangerie warm. The hole in the floor could have been for ice, and things that neede to be kept extra cool? Or, well, since they would keep calfes in the basement in winter, then maybe that was for chickens? 😂 The "furniture", by the ground floor kitchen, was the butlers pantry, used to keep all sorts of servingdishes, plates, silverware and glasses.
It must have been absolutely heartbreaking for the Bolts, to sell the place on good fait, and then it is just left to r
America is horrible on most homestead's like this. They rather demolish it build something new, but yet claim the land is historical. We were rentivating our main street and there was a couple of historical homes and chose the best of them to keep. It was built in 1870 3 story home massive wood carvings and original for the time period. It cost the city a lot of money to move it 2 blocks from my home until they could find a piece of land to put it on. After 6 mths. they sold off anything and everything that was valuable and then tore it down. I sat out there and cried!! I was happy I was able to tour this Beautiful home before they moved it. Our Historical Society in some states are the worst!!! You go to other countries and they have so many historical sites. America not so much. I hope they repair this home it's Absolutely Beautiful!!❤
The place looks so sad
I had that same shower curtain and comforter back in the mid 90's except they were in red, same pattern.
The Dexter rooms in the basement was probably used for staff that serve the master and his wife. Remember, this was built during slave times in the US so many escaped slaves would be hired for hardly more than the place to live and food to eat for a few pennies a dayto help look after the house.
You mentioned the amount of work It would take to bring this house back to life -- I see lots of dollars to make that happen!
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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.
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.
Smaller people way back when. Honestly. They also did not have many clothes. I lived in a house 1970 in Ohio and we had closets just the same size.
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 .....
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Wow what a tour really enjoyed it and found it very exciting you made me laugh about the bees and the spiders what a wonderful place I wish I could own it and live in it thank you for sharing ❤
You said they are going to tear down the house next month or so , later you said they are going to save it??? I hope it’s save it it stunning ❤
Who was the owns of the house 🏘️ do you know who was the owns of the house 🏡
When boidt(?) Sold the house didn't he ask what the plans were for the house? Personally, ,if the house meant so much to him and wanted it preserved, why didn't he get It in writing as part of the bill of sale?
Good question, but not sure.
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.
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.
I don't blame India for living to such an advanced age - who would EVER want to leave this glorious structure?
I like the concept of videos! However having grown up in a 150 mansion built by great grandfather and then it went through a major renovation in 1920s by my grandfather who was born in 1887. Lead paint and asbestos wear used in all paint. Period. Asbestos was used as insulation in the walls., interior ceilings and exterior siding , fireplaces, floors , doors and on electrical insulation on electrical wiring. For own your safery and well being you should be wearing at a minimum a respirator and it wouldnt hurt to wear over your clothing a disposable synehetic jumpsuit to keep from carrying these known carcinogens in your car and inside your home. One suggestion if you want to wear the respirator on camera is to shoot.the video wearing protective gear and then do the voice over? You're smart guy I'm sure you can figire this out to achieve what you want without risking your life. Oh and I have even mentioned black mold which is often is that sweet smell in these old abandoned mansions which often is hidden behind walls and can develop in some miseble upper respiratory and other symptons after exposure especially for those who are allergic to mold. My only brother dies unexpectedly in May of this from a form of very aggressive cancer which was due was to roccupational exposure to known cancer causing materials and chemicals. I miss him very especially at Christmas. My brother didnt know or otherwise he woukd worn a respirator and protective clothing. I dont want your loved ones to go through the agony, pain and suffering he endured and the undescribable sorrow and sense of loss our family that we experiencing now.
The documentary on this plantation is on you tube it is historical dude find out you facts first !!! Your putting totally wrong info !!! Family members are still around for this place dude !!!!
What a beauty so sad hope it is restored to it's former glory !
Holy cow I was thinking this reminds me of Cinderella then seen the secret room in the attic love it. ❤️
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.
We elderly people like to look at documentaries of years, gone by. Of the past they showed us the lovely pictures of the homes are people and celebrity hangouts speaking well with no music in the background. We elderly people have hearing problems, and some cannot afford hearing aids, so we are unable sadly to look or listen to your videos. We will not subscribe to anything we don’t enjoy because of the loud music background which is absolutely unnecessary!!!!😢
I would fix it up in a heart beat
Would love to restore it 😢
People were living there 20 years ago?? That Can't be Right,It looks like it's been abandoned Since the 1800's
Wow this house is beautiful they knew how how to build house then
Nice looking green dome
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Wishvyou had focused more on the windows and the camera moves so fast I got dizzy! Try to slow down when giving panorama views. Other than that...great tour.
beautiful
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.
You didn't need much closet space as you only had a limited number of changes, unless you were the Vanderbilt's. Clothes were kept in a clothes press.
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.
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.
Tearing it down. Are you kidding me. Why
I appreciate the effort You took and filming this video to ensure Continuity!I really like to understand where I am in a building!You really Make the viewer Feel Like they are there!I hate to tell you but that this smell you smell might be dead raccoon!
The room within the basement is most likely a safe room from tornados and/or emergencies. And every room with a fireplace is bc they didn't have central air and heating system like how we do nowadays lol 😂. It was necessary for a room to have a fireplace to keep warm. Why do u think they wore so many layers of clothing wayyyy back then?
Thank you it’s so beautiful I wish I had like this house it’s a lot of memoryIn my mind about it
it is going to cost alot of money to make livable, wouldn,t be surprized if it cost 300 400 thousand dollers or more,
A good video on what was a lovely mansion. Thank you Carol from California
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 .
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.
That mansion probably could have been saved of floor wasn't in bad shape.
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 ,
This is Tammy.....Basement is food storage areas......Small rooms make a good tea room sitting or reading.
The older homes like this had No insulation, thus the need for fire places in every room!
It's just a Wonder to me why don't they just tear it down and build houses back there how did somebody already purchase the land good video😮😮🎉
That glass room is called a salarium
Your a great investigator my friend i love the paranormal and investigating and knowing the history of places.
Summer kitchen. Root cellar. Or to house livestock for butchering
This old house is still beautiful hope it's not tore down love this explore thanks for taking me along.