Stunning Grand Forgotten 150 year old Doctors Mansion Up North in New Jersey
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- Beautiful Italianate Mansion built in the late 1800’s around 1865-1870 towards the end of the Civil War. The house has lived many lives and was actually a funeral home in the early 1900’s then eventually became a doctors office which closed its doors around 2007. Sadly this house has some major roof damage and will most likely end up torn down. Sad fate for a beautiful house. Glad to have documented it on film and pictures so it can live on in some way. Thanks for watching
WOW What a stunner. I cannot believe this one has been left to decay. What an absolute shame. Thank you Kappy
Hey Kappy and Ruby! What a massive place! Would love to see the original layout before it got chopped up. Still many awesome features. Be careful on those sketchy floors. Thanks for the look at this amazing place. Stay safe! ✌️
Oh my word!!! Absolutely stunning!! The archways and the transem!!! So beautifully built!! Oh I wish people would put the time and money into these homes and restore their history. That’s why we appreciate you so much Kappy! You put so much hard work and dedication into capturing these homes so they won’t disappear forever. As always, stay safe!! 😊
Couldn’t agree more! Only wish could’ve seen this house before it underwent some of the remodels! Still had a lot of beautiful old details tho! Thank you for the kind words and much appreciated always for watching Melissa!! :)
There is somèthing unsettlling about seeing floorboards CURVING & then taking a dive towards the basement floor.
Needs The property brothers for those old homes
I wish we could have seen this before the doctors got to it. She was once magnificent.
True that! Was actually a funeral home before this so it’s lived a few lives! Thank you very much for watching! :)
I wondered funeral home too after seeing a few things.
How can you tell it is a female house? I must have missed that part.
You said it, Maureen! She was, and still is, a sight to behold! Wish we could have seen her in her prime!
@@fishmongers All beautiful structures, boats and the like are female!
2007 isn't very long ago. It's amazing how quickly the house has deteriorated.
Awwww, I love that Ruby was so concerned with the cat. I would be the same way. ☺️. I also share her love of old wallpaper 😂
Some may not like it, but I love it when old houses are used for doctors’ offices. My old doctor’s was one. Just enough changed to be functional. The waiting room was in the front parlor with a fireplace. The kitchen was actually their lab. The bathroom was 1940s still with the tub. Old creaky hardwood floors. It was awesome. He passed but the building is still being used. Prob from 1880s or 90s. Check your DM. ❤
My doctors office was the same way. I always loved it. The original den was the waiting room. There were large pillars and built ins between the living room and the den. I still remember the stairs creaking as they went up and down from the offices upstairs.
Another GREAT find Kappy! I love when Ruby said "Hey" to us in the beginning! She sounds so sweet! Always looking forward to your next one!
It's such a shame to see a beautiful house go to waste it was still active in 2007 why didn't they keep up the maintenance it's a beautiful house it could have became a beautiful apartment building or somebody is nice mansion beautiful
This was the most amazing house! You did an awesome job finding the beautiful architectural details amid the wierd reno mess. Thx for finding the best wallpaper samples!! Great to have Ruby along we Kappy fans have missed her! Great explore Kappy!!
What a great old house. I always loved houses with cupolas ever since I read a story about one as a child, although technically that is not a cupola as they are round in form. I wouldn't want the heating bill but with that much space and glamour the mansions surely could have been transformed into some really cool apartments. Great video!!
Was the story you read as a child called “The Velvet Room”?
I have a feeling this Doctor was an OBGYN. Back in the day people had to pay out of pocket. I get a feeling he did everything there. Explains all the rooms and bathrooms. It must have been a beautiful family home before it was redone. Stay safe.
Nope, it was a funeral home. Surprised they didn't find anything coffins inside 😅
Hello from Scotland where there are some very interested abandoned places too. This is such an interesting former house and I think it was a Nurses Training School rather than a Doctors Office. The Helene Fuld Auxiliary is still in existence and they obviously moved out of that awkward for medical purposes use, lovely as it was. It is getting too far gone to save as it is built from wood and it already looks knackered. Enjoy your videos hugely. Keep safe.
Thank you Kappy and Ms. Ruby for another awesome tour. When are you guys getting married ? You seem to make a great team.
Wow, what a mysterious beauty. It's a shame it had to get to this condition.
That was some scarey infrastructure in that basement (and elsewhere). Says it all why that once beautiful old house was abandoned. The cost of retrofitting a house that large, plus the maintenance, would be staggering. Shame though, before it was butchered, then neglected, it must've been a grand place. Thanks for the tour. Nicely done.
There are so many people with the money to restore these beautiful houses, yet they will not donate a dime toward historic preservation. They instead build huge McMansions out of glued up wood chips, and spend on expensive cars that will be nothing but trouble.
Wow. What a beauty! I’d love to know the history. I can just imagine back in the day when it probably was the grandest home in the county. Wouldn’t it be something if somebody sent photos to you of this mansion in her original state. My imagination goes wild. How wonderful it wasn’t tagged & destroyed either. Those fireplaces😮. Just stunning
My imagination goes wild too...
I want the same thing! Surely there are pictures somewhere!
What an awesome house. Bet it was absolutely beautiful once upon a time.
Agreed! Thank you very much for watching! :)
Hey Kappy Hey Ruby!! Another great find! What a beautiful place it once was. 😥 sad. Yous guys stay safe!
The town should save this house!!💜
It hurts my heart to see this gorgeous home in such a deteriorating state.
Oh man, black mold and flooded basements are no joke. That caved in floor was super scary too. I know you guys know this, but please be careful. I would at least consider wearing masks in structures this bad with black mold. This house is so open to the elements, it's really just beyond repair now. It's such a shame it wasn't preserved. It's so unique and beautiful. The light plays out nicely throughout the house, really lovely. I'm glad at least it was utilized as a doctor's office even if that wasn't the original design. I can't help but be sad for this house, I know that sounds ridiculous, but, I love old houses and prefer to see them preserved if possible. You can still see how lovely she must have been in her prime. What an interesting life it has had; built from the ashes of the Civil War, ushering the dead on their journey as a funeral home, and restoring the sick (hopefully) to health again. A "circle of life" kind of place. Truly beautiful and bittersweet. Thanks for sharing, and be careful as you explore, guys! 🏚👟🎥
Poor house, water in the basement is a death knell. The grey stuff on the upstairs floor where the ceiling collapsed is old insulation. Great video, hi Ruby!
Imagine turning a house like that into a funeral home! It was an odd sensation to get caught up in the beauty of the remaining features and then look out of the windows to see modern life right next door. Didn't seem to fit. Nice of you all to be concerned about the cat! 😺
I've been to more than one old house that's been turned into a funeral home.
Wow! It's a shame no one made repairs before it got that bad. Can visualize the lovely woodwork and fireplaces under the paint, and how gracious it once was. Wonder if it was a hospital at one time? Thanks, you two!
That must have been a beautiful home! I have heard that homes on the coast that would have those towers, they were called widows peaks. After the wife’s husband went to sea, she would go there and watch for his return! Thanks Ruby and Kappy!
Kappy & Ruby, I am afraid the black mold, fungus, fetid water, and blackish grey asbestos would have left me in severe anaphylactic shock. Beautiful bones, but man that house is headed straight for eventual destruction. Honestly it reminds me of a Spanish Revival Medical Clinic I went to when I was between the ages of 6 to 17 in Long Beach, California. It was built sometime around 1910 to 1925, and was torn down decades ago. It had areally primitve intercom system, and eletrical system, but it was a cool old place. When I was around 6 we used to go to this huge mansion in Buena Park, Calfornia that was called Murray Manor, where the enire mansion and grounds were converted from a sprawling mansion near Beach Blvd, into a showcase furniture store. It was insane how beautiful that place must have been when it was built sometime around 1910 in the middle of the orange groves and dairy farms that existed prior to 1959. Love Ya Both, and thank you so much Kappy & Ruby. Tell ya what, you both got guts!
Oh Wow! What a beauty 🫶before the remodeling. The outside looks humongous 😮. It would be so cool to hang out in the widow’s peak during a thunderstorm.
I like the way you think!! It did start pouring rain just as we left too! Shame it hadn’t been 10 minutes earlier! Thanks for watching! :)
I don't thinkthe air in that basement is very healthy. Glad you kept it short. Great house tho. Hello Ruby!!
Hi Donna!❤
Wow freaking awesome 👍😎 place kappy weird the new addition falling in and most of the original structure still intact man so sad it was let go to bad all the wood wasn't stained
That’s a wonderful old house. I’ve seen far worse get restored but it’s going to take someone with the mindset that they’re restoring it because it’s worthy and not as an investment. I hope that happens for this house. Thanks again for another fun house tour !!
Being a cat fan...hats off to ruby....this is my 2nd time watching this video...this house is amazing!!!! Such a shame to see it rot away...i can't imagine all the hard work went into building this!!!!..thanks kappy for a grand video..really enjoyed watching it!!!!!!!!
Cats can fall from pretty high heights and they still land on their feet. Thank you both for showing us this wonderful house!
Thx Kappy great explore. She was certainly a grand lady in her day. Shameful whats been done with updates & add ons. Its like a giant maze.
Good to see Ruby again, y'all make a good team.
Much luv to u both
Carry on
Stay safe
Hi there Kappy, and Miss Ruby, I love it when she’s with you. Wonder if the little town there would have old pictures of it from back in the day. Before Edison that wanted to meter the use of electricity, they had free energy before the 1800’s, the Antenna on the top was how homes received their power from the either of the planet. Great Orbs by the first Exit sign and basement.😊
I live in Northern NJ, I’d love to know what down this is in. Not that I’d go there, just curious.
Hey welcome to new jersey.....kappy and ruby I love to join you guys on the exploration
What a beauty. Stunning home. It would take major money to fix this up. If only the walls could talk. Great views from the tower. I find basements creepy too. Hope the cat is ok. A real nice explore and thanks to you and Ruby. You guys are great tour guides.
Hello Kappy and Ruby. What a fantastic place. Remodeling that place would be fun. And I have a question for Kappy. Where did you learn all this stuff you know about houses and their features. I know you're not too old. Did you have a relative who taught you??
This is truly a remarkable find. I share in the sentiments of wishing I could have seen it in her glory days.
Thank you for filming this beauty before its gone for good. You can almost see what the house may have looked like. The rooms with the small sinks looked like exam rooms. The fireplaces on the second floor I believe are art deco. The very top floor is called a widows walk. The wives would look out to sea waiting for their mariner to return. A lot of times they never made it back, hence the name widows walk. What a gem this was.
They cupola on the top in an Italian term is called a belvedere if you can stand in it. The word in Italian means beautiful view.
Tragic, just tragic that this amazing house was left to die. 😢
They have ruined that house making it a doctor's office.
That was super interesting. Thanks you two)!
My Doctor when I was a kid had an office in a old house. It was a big beautiful Victorian.
Mine too!
OMG! ok you two need to claim one of these gorgeous old buildings and get a TV show and renovate it. I will watch your show! I can't believe how awesome this house is. And it's not in the middle of nowhere. I love Ruby's enthusiasm. And Ruby, why didn't you go up the first level back turning staircase? I knew Kappy wouldn't but I expected you to. 😕🙃
I love those steep twisting back staircases 😊
Hi Alice!!! I wish I would’ve, this house was truly a maze! I usually would walk off by myself and poke around a little but I let Kappy lead the way on this one hahah 😅. Thanks for watching!❤
Alicia**
Its hard to believe how this place fell into so much ruin in just a little over a decade
I can tell you from experience that it will take a VERY LARGE pile of money to fix that house. The house we bought was not in that bad of shape but it has taken lots of money to fix it AND we bought the old stuff to fix it the way it was. We couldn't afford to pay someone so it has been 13 years and we are still not done. Good job on finding this one Kappy !!!!
I heard her coughing. FYI, when black mold is present, that is a way of knowing. Not good to be walking through there, with nothing covering your face. Just a little FYI😌💁🏾♀️
Beautiful it’s a shame the condition it’s in it looks exactly like a doctor’s office that is still functioning in Rahway New Jersey ❤ welcome to the Garden state 💕❤️
While in New Jersey, you should go check out the Devils Tower known as Riondas Tower … legend says that the owner’s wife threw herself off the tower and committed suicide and still haunts the grounds. Anyway, enjoy your stay while up north.
Who else agrees that house should be saved?
Someone butchered that house!😠😠😠
Amazing place! I'm not one for changing original structures, but hey I guess it's good to put them to use and extend their lives a little. At least the good doc used it. Hopefully he or she had a successful practice. I love cats! I have one. Her name is Mia. Great tour guys, thanks!
This one is worth saving, it would take a month of gutting it down to frame, “20 dumpsters “. Then surgically cut it apart into crane size pieces. Label everything, then truck it off to a new home and reassemble this old growth forest - the lead paint and all the plumbing.
That back section was obviously added on - it’s not original. The original house is gorgeous.
It would have been a beautiful home when it was built. Now its just sad.
Ruby in the house today! 🤩That was a beautiful place in its day. Shame things like this go to decay. Good find Kap! Take care you two.❤👍
Wow, that was quite the house. Can you imagine how big those rooms were before it was remodeled with the false walls and the staircase that goes nowhere? Can not belive some misguided soul painted those marble fireplaces, things like that make me want to cry. Love the room at the top of the house, so cool and a great view. Great explore, I enjoyed this one a whole lot. Thanks, Kappy and Ruby
Well said! The rooms even with the drop down ceiling were still easily 10 feet high! I was shocked about painting the fireplaces too lol! Strange! Thank you for the kind words and watching! :)
@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 That only goes to show that someone did not have a lick of sense when it came to refitting this house for its new purpose. I think someone lied on their resume. Lol!
I was imagining the same thing...Omagosh those rooms before they were partitioned off...must have been enormous! Someone with a lot of money built that beauty...
The city should fix the old part--the house up especially. How interesting!!!
Hi Kappy and Ruby
You guy’s really found a cool place. I couldn’t believe those fireplaces were still in tact.
I love those floor to ceiling windows, they let in so much natural light. Those doors with
the glass and the transom were all as you would say Kappy INCREDIBLE! My favorite
part was the tower on top so cool! Too bad the basement was flooded but it looked like
a spooky dungeon. I would have like to see this house before the remodeling. Must have
been a real beauty. It’s a dirty shame that this once beautiful house is just left to sit and
get flooded and rot away. Well both of you showed us a real Diamond in the Rough today.
Keep up the nice work you do. Kappy bring Ruby more often. I can see she loves to
explore and she is very helpful. Stay safe and well and we will see you in the next one.
U will love new jersey kappy and ruby...enjoy your visit to new jersey..alot to see in jersey alot of abandoned houses here..
great explore Kappy, what a beautiful place this must have been in it's original form as a home,
Ohh please please someone buy this house and fix it up. It’s sooo beautiful.
Kappy. We want to see Ruby.
Hi Ruby!! This place is amazing!! The windows and the woodworking is so beautiful, so sad that it's this far gone. Too late to try to save it. This place keeps going on and on!! It's huge! That fourth floor room was really cool!! I can't believe they let this place rot!! Thanks for sharing Kappy!! Peace, Kim ~
Looked like someone had used for a grow op after it had been abandoned due to everything hanging from the ceilings in the downstairs area. Nice older home of once what was. Thanks for the share.
I'd love to find a photo of this house when it was in its glory!
Hi Ruby
The room on the top floor was in the best shape of all the house. That seems really odd.
What is holding that wall up with the floor gone like that?
What a beautiful old place! Hi Ruby!!!! ☺️ Thanks again for sharing Kappy!!
Kind Kappy strikes again! I am down with sinus infection this will be the only video watch today, thanks for making it a fantastic one!
This is a stunning place with the archways Kappy I'm really happy for you and Ruby but I hope by asking to let us see the beautiful woman you fell in love with
Might have lived upstairs & worked downstairs
What av unbelievablely beautiful house! Hope it is saved!! I can not belive how they boxed the stair case in. And the tower on the top. Still have all the original features and can show you how amazing it must have been!!
What a house 🏠. Love it. This is a real waste..
The original bathroom tiles are amazing
They probably blocked off rooms when made Drs office to make rooms smaller,wished could have seen original floor plan ,but still a good explore ,did Ruby get the cat some food and bring it back ,great job y'all did, the Dr made have stayed in the apartment part ,or maybe after Dr was there someone made two apartments there,great find and a good job as usual,so glad you do these old houses
Found it. I wanted to see what this home originally looked like. Old House Showcase has one titled Perfect Italianate Walkthrough. There is another one called touring 1860s Italian Villa in Tower Grove which features interior window shutters which when closed, fold up onto the sides of the windows.
It's just looks like someone set a big bomb off in that place. Even though it's just natural decay .it's too bad it couldn't be saved for someone else to use .
What a amazing house! I could just imagine what it used to be like
grand old house hope it will be restored kappy
I love your videos. And I know the house that you go to are vacant I found this one in terre haute Indiana I know people live there but the house is 175 years old with a wonderful history it's called Merkel House.
I wonder who owned the original part of the house? It’s so incredibly massive, and I love the tower (always wanted one of those)! It looks like it may have been used as a small hospital like structure, so I wonder if upstairs was where the staff stayed at night or if there was a single doctor whose family lived up there? Very intriguing to know the actual history behind this gem!
That place looks like it has been deserted for 50 years. Didn’t you find something with a 2007 date on it? That is a prime example of how much upkeep is required for these kind of homes and that’s probably why they abandon them. Ps. You are a very sweet boyfriend to Ruby.
another beauty, so sad......your videos are so calm and relax without any funy music in the backround.
I love you art of filming, so slow, nice.Greetings from germany
Cool place. The more you guys walked thru it I started wondering if it may have also been a small teaching hospital at one point. The apartment like rooms upstairs could have been where the residents stayed or maybe even doctors and nurses on call. Then there was the old film reels, maybe teaching films? Lastly at the time mark 18:32, I had to go back and look again because at the ceiling it looked like there could have been a balcony area once. We have a super old hospital here that has just kept on expanding onto the original building and it has a staircase in the oldest part of the place that many don't realize because the entry point is kept locked and its in a really low traffic spot that has a stairwell that leads up to an old multipatient gjant room and a balcony that looks down into the original surgery room. From up there students could observe surgeries being performed.
It was a funeral home.
How beautiful! So sad she is just rotting away; hello Ruby!
Hey Carla!!❤
@@Ruby.0 hope all is well! Looking forward to next video! ❤️👍
Whatever doctor's group used the house, they really ruined it with the addition and chopping up once large beautiful rooms into tiny cubicles. Back in the day, there was not as much respect or love of old houses. They were just that, old houses. Many very historic homes, 17th and 18th century, in northern NJ, where I grew up, were bulldozed in the name of progress.
Love your vids but you keep making the same mistakes of calling the mantelpiece the "fireplace'.
If walls could talk & this one, having been Doctor's office with addition, would lead to book. Just Horrid, that not been kept updated, esp the roof.
What an incredible old mansion this was.
Such a shame it’s been absolutely trashed starting in the 1960’s. She’s still recoverable but it would cost millions of dollars. Given the ugliness of the surrounding town, it’s clearly somewhere that doesn’t appreciate history, beauty and preservation
Always so sad to see these beautiful buildings left to deteriorate. Back then they had no codes for railing heights so they really varied. I toured a Victorian mansion and was told women were to descend the stairs with rigid posture letting only their fingertips lightly graze the rail and never looking at their feet. Seems very dangerous. The were often very steep, too. This was a wonderful peek into the past. You were both very brave to venture upstairs and into the basement.
Looks totally like a hospital, as signified by the plaque we saw earlier. Wrecked the original house totally.Nothing pretty about this place for sure. The stuff on the floor with the wrecked roof is most likely insulation of some kind.
If you can't find me, check the turret.
Thanks Kappy! Hi Ruby!
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very confusing house has beautiful doorways and fireplaces
Was o.k. with it until you got to the giant hole in the floor! And, the mold. Geesh! Thanks for the explore, documentation and post, it really was once a lovely place, but should be considered for a tear down because of the dangerous condition and location.
I think it might once have been a doctors house & then developed into more of a practice as things got more busy. At one point the rooms upstairs might have been the sort of place local women go to give birth, with a couple of nurses on duty & a Dr possibly living in.