The Ghostly Ruins of the Overlook Mountain House
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A ghostly shell stands where a once grand hotel stood in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Built in 1871, this hotel was once visited by presidents, but repeated fires prevented the place from ever achieving the success it deserved. The final years of the building were plagued with suicides, and ultimately the site of the merger of the two existing Communist parties in America in the 1920's.
Let's climb the trail to the top of the mountain and see what remains of this ruined hotel overlooking Woodstock.
I love how you connect every historical thing to ships
I had an aunt who owned a house in Shady on MacDaniels Road, named after the farmstead that was her neighbor. Hiked up to Overlook in the late 60's when it was reduced to a cowpath with rattlesnake warnings. There were still signs of former construction and development - a baby grand piano rotting to decay and rolls of carpeting spread around. If you go up past the hotel to the highest point, there are rocks that people carved with dates going back to the late 1880's. Not many people ventured up there then and it was a really haunting thing to behold.
I initially thought this is about Overlook hotel from „The Shining“, silly me….. 🤭
Used to live in West Hurley many years ago. The site had, at that time in the main building and the annex, wooden floors and stair cases with a "steeple" of sorts, center at the top of the main. Even that long ago you had to be careful where you stepped as their were missing steps and holes in the floors. The support of the steeple gave way some time after and it dropped several feet and stuck, canted at an angle visible for miles. A friend and I took shelter in the main room of the annex one winter day and got warm by it's fireplace despite the floor being a sheet of ice from holes in the roof. Fun fact, at about 2 o'clock in your sketch there was, in a wood frame building, a small bowling alley slightly apart from the main. Stopped here many times on hikes over the mountain to Echo Lake on the other side. Thanks for your exploration.
“Although from what I hear, this wasn’t the only thing that was lit up in the 1960’s, in Woodstock”
The New York Ontario &Western has a fascinating history. From nowhere, to nowhere, via nowhere. A flying diesel locomotive. Ultimately, it was the first US Class 1 railroad to completely dieselize around 1953, and it went bankrupt in 1957.
Just discovered your channel and I gotta say I’m getting quickly hooked! So much rich, intriguing, and haunting history we’d never otherwise know about these amazing old structures and vessels. Keep up the great work!
I’m From Woodstock. Camped there many many years. Used to hiked past it going to the summit.
Started on your fabulous shipwreck videos, but am even more enamored with your abandoned placed videos! Was super stoked to hear you mention the Roundout and Oswego Railroad, because I'm from the tiny city of Oswego NY. Its a very unassuming town of 25000 now, and really only boasts one of the NY State Colleges and a well known race track that's been around since 1951. However, it was a very impactful area thanks to Fort Oswego and Fort Ontario during the Revolutionary War and the War if 1812. Its pronounced Oss Wee Go, btw, but no worries, everybody pronounces it differently, even current residents (some say Oss-wiggo, and based on its origin from the Iroquois probably should be Oss way go, from the Iroquois "osh weh geh") So youre probably technically correct, even if not in the vernacular lol.
I recently found your channel and am sure glad I did. Great content and your sense of humor and level of class is not lost on me. Thank you!
Outstanding! Thank you so much for these little glimpses into our forgotten history.
Grate work mate been following your content for awhile now love every second of it keep going looking forward to more thankyou
When I was young, I made a point of hunting down interesting sites. MY brother did also and found a trench full of dead Union Soldiers in Tennessee and a riverboat on the Mississippi.
Another great video Tom! Your content is among the very best, highest quality program making I've found on TH-cam 👌
How did I not see this years ago when you originally uploaded it* well its on my feed now so here is to another great Part-Time Explorer video :)
Your great at what your doing with the history of whatever you cover, and the way you give content with dates people and things that took place in that era. You get a feel of being in that moment of time. Like a great story teller you see and feel the surroundings. Thank you.
It really a wonderful old place . Hauntingly beautiful . Thank you for bringing it to us . The snow is also a nice touch .
I enjoy all your videos, but this was particularly interesting when you drew the layout of the house, and superimposed the actual section of building you were describing. Excellent work. Thank you.
Thanks, this is fun. I like how you didn't edit out your superlatively graceful descent of the snow packed staircase. People who take their work seriously but not themselves are the best all-rounders, I think. And I appreciate very much that you sketched out the complex layout of the place.
I find your videos entertaining, informative, and very well produced.