It was probably just another house that was ordered off the Sears Roebuck & Co catalog and William assembled it himself. Lol. Don't know if Canada did partake in the Sears catalog house extravaganza like the US did though. 🤔
This is another example of how a home dies without love and care. I bet it was beautiful at one time. One can imagine the sound of all the children playing , the laughter and joy. Great video. ❤
My parents got Reminisce Magazine in the 90's. I remember readers sharing short stories of living on homesteads. People wrote about having apples and popcorn on Christmas Eve as children (what a treat for them). Of snow and how all the animals were bedded down in the barn. Of hit biscuits, sliced ham and fresh eggs for breakfast. Gifts wrapped in homemade wrapping paper. I imagine the family in this home were slender and strong from all the fresh food and farm work.
@JenniferLloyd-h9g yes. Unlike today that's for sure. Children would be grateful for a piece of fruit at Christmas time. I was born in 1955 and I remember getting a orange and apple in my stocking. Loved it. Can you imagine doing that today? Merry Christmas ya'll !
What a fascinating peek into early rural prairie life. All those kids in that little house and no indoor plumbing, or electricity. (That was a propane fridge, and I loved the lantern post with the rusted out reflector that you showed.) That tiny kitchen with all those mouths is to feed and manual labor farming of that huge expanse of land! I don't think people understand how easy they have it nowadays.
That had no actual kitchen in it. It had a nice pantry but no actual kitchen. They used a wood burning stove in the living room to cook on. The "bucket" in the chimney was where the smoke pipe went from the wood burning stove. Where the gas refrigerator sat was , back in the day, was called a "mud room." You'd come in the back and take off your wet and muddy things and wash at the little sink. I grew up on a farm that was built in 1882. It had a mud room just like that tiny home had. You didn't enter the home from farm work through the front door. The coat hooks on the wall are clear indications of that. That refrigerator didn't exist until the mid-1950s.they would have had either an ice-house on property or an icebox. The caller looked like a root-celler for storing home canned goods. It looked as though it was blocked off from the 1st level that it was only accessible from outside at some point as the celler stairs were still in tact and never removed.
i work in rural alberta and sk, everytime i see these old homes, i think about how cool it would be to restore one, built a hell of alot better than new homes...
My husband and I restored a house from 1832 in Quebec. It had been owned by a family that basically did the bare minimum on it for 35 years and didn't live in it (they hated each other too much to sell it and split the money). It took us ten years of research and constant hard work to restore it. Anyway, do it. It's such a meaningful project even though we had to sell it. The house in this video could easily be restored, it's still in good condition. And living in an old house is like medicine for your soul. I was never more happy in my life being in that house.
I try imagine the sacred sound of the wind blowing there and the sight of the stars; the night sky with nothing to interfere with such moments.Thank You for such a great video!
This is so so so cool. I love these old houses. Every time I see one a strong urge to know about them seizes me. I don't know why the pull to go in them is so strong. Almost an ache like nostalgia brings. Bitter, sweet. I have never felt that for any other houses. Just these. Thanks for a great video.
Found you by accident and so glad I did! Your videos are magnificent! No talking just sights and sounds…and the views out the windows. Gives a real Sense of what life was like for those that lived there.
Very nice original looking farm house. Im from Ontario this particular house style was featured in an 1864 issue of Canadian farmer. Called a cheap farmhouse. They are in every rural town. The design was simple and versatile. My family’s homestead has the same style as this. My grandfather gutted the place in the 70s and I never seen the trim work. Note no indoor bathroom. That wasn’t in the design because indoor plumbing wasn’t a thing yet. Even the kitchen in the back was optional. One has to admire those homes were built by the people who owned them. No contractors no costly bs bureaucracy lining the government pockets. This is the kind of freedom that’s needed to cure a housing crisis.
I absolutely love your videos. I love that you are mostly quiet and let the properties/buildings/houses speak for themselves. I also love that you stop and show us some of the small details. I love the small details!! These videos are always very well done. Thank you!!!
I love that you don't talk and allow the viewers to listen and experience the sound. This is rare in many exploring videos. I also enjoy your fascination on door nobs and hinges. Something I enjoy to observe.
Thanks. The consensus is most people don’t want talking or music. It takes away from the experience. It interferes with the viewers own perception if my voice or choice of music is forced upon your ears.
"Secondary Highway". I love the name. It's in tune with what I personally like to do, take the side & back roads. You see a lot more interesting things. I also really love the no-talking. Leave us to quietly ponder and imagine. Thank you!
My dad was from there.They had horses.I love seeing this.I always imagined what his life was like there.Thank you.Its making me so emotional.Maybe you will come across his families property.I dont know what ever happened to it.I do know that this isnt his family though.
What a well built house. Nicely framed windows, the typical farmhouse floors, lath and plaster walls and ceilings, a nice place to live and raise a family a century in a quarter ago.
Love the homemade little comb holder nailed to the wall by the sink in the mudroom. 4 combs! Looks like it hasn't been touched in quite some time. It's neat to see how people lived in a different era. No time period was perfect, of course, but we can learn from all the good values in the past and apply them. Thanks for the wonderful look into the past! Very well done...especially with the pictures and historical facts included 👌
Brilliant just love the Silence! This house is in pretty good Condition,could be a Museum Piece with a bit of Work to show our kids how people Lived on the Prairie, Suprising No Pigeons? or Birds? Thank You UK
I found your videos and I just love them. The way you pause and zoom in the old shoes ,clothing, furniture every nook and corner. It makes their story come alive again, and of course their history. It’s like we are there with you. I will really have my eye on something and a lot of other you tubers whiz on by but you stop and even pluck the layers of paint. That in itself is satisfying. I rate you a 20 in the top 10.
That’s so nice to hear! I’ve watched exploration videos myself and I choose not to speak. Voices, narrations and music are subjective. Leaving everything to nature I feel is the best for most. Huge thanks.
I’m a born and raised rural Albertan myself. These old homesteads are everywhere! The sad part is a lot of them are getting so old and unkept that those who own the property they stand on demolished them as they are usually unsafe to enter. Thank you for showing this and even going into the history of the place. It was very interesting!
Thanks for watching. I used to just take pictures, but the history gnawed at me. I don’t think many are capturing these places on video for historical records for the future. So that’s my plan. If you know of a landowner who’d have me, please keep me in mind! 😀
@@secondaryhighway for sure! I live in BC now but I visit frequently. Most people I know have demolished those buildings from their property but my parents know a lot of people in the area who might know someone who still have some standing.
Reminds me of my moms old house we visited her dilapidated childhood home in Nebraska…her family being sharecroppers...the ethereal sadness of so many years gone serving as a reminder to live each day to its fullest. As our time will be in antiquity soon enough.
That place holds such past life. Life in the prairie is still abundant, and a reminder of how short our time here in this world is. The prairie is beautiful!
How wonderful to see the front door glass still in place! 3:35 I wonder if that was the opening for the coal chute? 8:05 that old lantern reflector is fantastic! 10:55 that's one of the most ornate heat vents I've ever seen. So pretty! What a lovely and cozy old home, and so nice to see so many tidbits left behind.
Same! The heating grate was unique. And pretty sure that was a beautiful quarter sawn oak newel post on the stairs. Can only imagine if the rest of the woodwork is oak.
Its hilarious when people say I'm too cold i wish it was summer. When summer rolls around people complain about it being too hot and wishing it was winter. Hahaha
This is so well done, excellent sound and footage, no talking, it feels like I'm there myself. I also love how respectful you are and try to leave everything as it is found...
This was riveting. To see how this family lived for generations! But I could not help but feel how lonely it must have been. No one for miles, it seems. No neighbors. How long before they were able to get to town for supplies - and that by horse? So barren. I live in the woods and the thought of living where no trees are is uneasy for me. But it seems to have been a simple yet fulfilling life for this family. I hope the descendants are all doing well now.
Roll bar in kitchen held towel to wipe hands…made as one circular piece, then slid off end to wash/dry and start over. Mother in law still had that in her old house kitchen in the ‘60’s in Iowa.
I bet that homestead was absolutely glorious back in its time. I would love to see all the veggies and preserves they put up in a year, I bet the larder was full. The children must have been so happy.
Lovely house, love seeing the old photo's of who once lived there, 11 kids!!! All the coats still hanging was cool (even the crispy one 😂) great tour, thank you Sir 👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍
Retired shoe cobbler: that shoe at 10:15 ....the quality 100% leather hand made just oil it resole and heel them and ready for another wearing. Amazing how good quality shoes were back then.
@secondaryhighway I found something similar on an exploration in the California desert I put it on my service counter in my shop it was a nice conversation piece. Unfortunately it came up missing one day after 25 years sitting there. It was smaller than the one in the video by about 2 sizes and I was a single shoe as well.
Reminds me a lot of my great grandparents farmhouse out in the Illinois countryside, also built around the turn of the century and looks just like this, they raised 14 children in that house. Thankfully, the house is still in the family and still well looked after, it was even renovated in the 2010s. Wish the one in this video had a similar happy ending.
Great video. That Servel refrigerator is particularly interesting. No electricity needed. It only needed a natural gas or propane source to cool the contents.
I grew up in a farmhouse that’s well over 100 years old in Michigan so I find this fascinating! I can’t imagine the day they left the house for the last time. These things would be lost if you didn’t do this video. So thank you for doing this and giving us the history of the family!
Thanks for watching. I typically just photograph these places but it’s turned to video and history for the preservation. We don’t have a big video record of these places at all.
I watch these kinds of videos all the time and this is my favourite of any I've seen. I've gone to Alberta and wandered around endlessly, looking at old towns and old buildings, and I love that you keep showing the sky and fields. To me the essence of Alberta is the sky. This was a simply stunning video. Thank you so much. I also loved the silence, by the way.
What a gorgeous house. It's so simple with clean lines abd touches of beauty, like the ironwork, round item above the chair. The quality of the woodwork was so nice.
Soy de Argentina y hoy 11/10/2024 encontré sus videos y me fascina ver estas construcciones tan antiguas que siguen de pie, no se hablar inglés,solo hablo español, gracias por compartir estos videos maravilloso❤️🇦🇷👏👏
I can't get over the great expanse. I'm down here in the lower 48,not in the western part. I see fields but nothing like the prairies you are showing. Miles and miles of nothing. The emptiness makes me feel lonely and I'm not even there. They must have had to stay busy,not only to survive but to stay sane. I know people wrote about our west and how hard it was on the women,and many couldn't take it. It's fascinating but sad at the same time.
Agree with you-these people would have had to be constantly busy just to survive out here-no real time to be lonely but that's not to say they had their moments-the environment back then probably even more hostile and I'm sure it broke a lot of these pioneers/We have no conception of what they had to go through-but it was a day when you would get help from your neighbors and when you would help them which in today's society is opposite of that philosophy and maybe tells us we haven't come as far as we think we have!!!
Wow what a beautiful video! I really like how you touch things it brings a deeper connection with the past. I bet the people who lived there would be happy you are exploring appreciating and sharing the wonder of their home with the world
Thanks. I get more good comments about touching things but some wish I don’t. I’m documenting things because I feel 10-20 years from now these places will be lost. 😞
Amazing tour, there's something comforting about the house, it makes me nostalgic for a simpler time. I miss the days before computers and cell phones. I'm only sixty one, but I remember that style of frigerator growing up and the roller shades on the windows and the old shoes with the leather laces.. When you looked up in the attic, the bones of the house looked Solid, I mean, you could still save that house If you wanted to, very well built and with love. I hope the farm I see in the background in your drone shot are the descendants, it would be a comfort to know the family still owns and works the land. Thanks for the trip down memory land 🙏
What an amazing home! It would be a dream to explore here and imagine the life this family led. Just thinking of all the work that beautiful shoe has seen gives me chills. So glad i found your channel!
It’s so amazing that house has stood for sooo long! It looks to me it became abandoned after the parents passed in the 40’s or 50’s. By the items left. The coats still hanging , so amazing! The shoes goodness look way old, from early 1900’s.❤oh so amazing also to see the prairie out the windows, you don’t see that no more! Also I seen at the end were abandoned in the 1970s.
It’s a beautiful house and it’s built well. I get a good feeling over this. A lot of wonderful memories were made here. The mile wide view is astounding to me. Imagine to gallop your horse in the sunset over these fields! Thank you for this! You got yourself a subscriber 👍
Amazing video! I love that there's no talking, yet you scroll facts on the screen. (Other explorers talk too much, and it's irritating). I think that little hatch, in the beginning, on the outside may have been a coal shoot. 🤷🏼♀️❤️
I have an odd question; did you get the feeling you weren't alone in that house? The house, for me, gave off that kinda vibe. Oh that wooden square in the window is an opening for a coal.shoot. That frame house brings back some memories of my past. Some of my friends lived on farms & in houses of similar designs. I even attended a typical one room school house. Grade 1-8. Two years later all one room school houses were closed down. The sad thing is kids grow up & move away. No one wants to take over the family home any more.
I’ve never had any odd feelings in any of the houses. I’m what they call a “zero” in the paranormal world. I shoot these places at night. Sometimes I get the heebeegeebeez but probably just scared of animals.
It was a very nice home and really with the age of it now- being able to walk around in it, upstairs also is proof of how nice it was. Imagine all those people In that home. Lot's of voices, activity. Never a dull moment I suppose. 😊
People mostly built their own houses so they built them right. Most people today with the skill to build their own houses would make it just as sturdy as this. If it’s your home you build it to last.
This is an astonishingly well built home-unreal that it's lines are so straight after be exposed to the weather for so long/commentary would have been helpful in the context of how the actual person exploring here felt or acknowledged things in relation to this dwelling!! Definitely Big Sky Country-unimaginable how cold it is there in the winter with the cold relentless winds-talk about being pioneers against the elements!Well Rest in Peace for all your hard work and to any of the surviving family Best Wishes and Hope you are well as you certainly come from good stock!!!! That was a hard life back then and would kill most of us off today trying to do the same things they had to do to survive back then!!!It is a Miracle and a testament to the Legacy this family left that these structures endure-you feel a pride of place and a resiliency that is palpable to this day!!Phenomenal and Evocative af all the hardships endured by our forefathers!!!!God Bless!!Amen!!
Seems like a nice solid house,a little sheet rock clean up the old plaster, a good cleaning at least the roof and foundation are good. Its clean . Good for a farm family.
It cracked me up when you tried to get that little knob off of whatever it was on the wall....and then it broke off! I don't think you thought it would break off in your hand! A little "oop!" then trying to stick it back in! You just did a little swipe of your hand like, "Oh, well, whatever." Your reaction was hilarious!
I try to imagine the people and the lives that played out in that house. What was their everyday life like? The marriages and deaths and births. She had eleven children!!!
When I first saw the drone pictures I was thinking that it looked just like the house in the Brad Pitt movie about Jessie James. It was so barin just like this house. Great job. I love the quiet exploration.
@@secondaryhighwayBut it's a different take being quiet and I like it! I used to follow this guy and they talked a lot but I like your style much better!
With areas being so remote , it reminds traveling through the mojave desert in southern California with all the litte shacks and houses. I guess people love thier solitude.
@@secondaryhighway A bit too far out for me. I like the idea of being so close by to a hospital and a grocery store. Lol. Plus, here in Oregon the some or most farmland. Like here in Klamath Falls.. Half is city with the other half is mostly farmland.
great stuff. That photo from 1913 made me drop my coffee and rewind. That's as close as we get to time travel. I love how the landowners just beautifully work around the old yard. Like a Van Gogh....just nice swirls and cuves. Says something about them as I'm sure you could make the case to burn/raze everything and gain an extra 1/3 section. And the clothes - looks like choring clothes for six people? And again - at what point did they say ' oh we can't be bothered to grab those clothes...they can just hang there forever'. Thanks for a great video!
@@secondaryhighway I get you. I believe places hold a bit of memory and physical contact can make a tiny connection. I visited Graceland last spring and I touched everything. Leaned against walls, brushed carpet, held onto doorknobs longer than necessary…..it meant something. Not silly psychic ‘oh I’m receiving Elvis he’s speaking to me’ but - a tiny connection to the tiny memory a place holds of the energy that once filled it.
@@secondaryhighway thank you! I see all the outbuildings. Were they all shed-type buildings or storage/barns, or did any of the grown children live there, I wonder.
The stairs looked really sturdy. My house was built in 1916. We raised our 5 kids in it. I lived in it 50 yrs now my son and his family have been in it 8 yrs.
What a nice video! I love the silent explanations mixed with the ambient noise and the photos. I think before watcing this video I would be against the concept of a person exploring an abandoned place and touching things, but one can tell that you do it respectfully, and because of the touching this is the first video of its type that I've actually felt like I was inside the house. Thanks for sharing
That means a lot. I get mixed comments with the touching but I think certain things need to be examined as these places will soon be gone and nobody is taking a close look at the artifacts. I do my best to do it respectfully. Thanks for watching and your feedback.
The fact that it is still in relatively good condition is a testament to the craftsmanship of the house! Thank you for the tour!
Huge thanks for watching!
It was probably just another house that was ordered off the Sears Roebuck & Co catalog and William assembled it himself. Lol. Don't know if Canada did partake in the Sears catalog house extravaganza like the US did though. 🤔
This is another example of how a home dies without love and care. I bet it was beautiful at one time. One can imagine the sound of all the children playing , the laughter and joy. Great video. ❤
Hey thanks Cherry. One of my favourite homes.
I was think the same thing. I was imagining kids running up and down the stairs
My parents got Reminisce Magazine in the 90's. I remember readers sharing short stories of living on homesteads. People wrote about having apples and popcorn on Christmas Eve as children (what a treat for them). Of snow and how all the animals were bedded down in the barn. Of hit biscuits, sliced ham and fresh eggs for breakfast. Gifts wrapped in homemade wrapping paper. I imagine the family in this home were slender and strong from all the fresh food and farm work.
@JenniferLloyd-h9g yes. Unlike today that's for sure. Children would be grateful for a piece of fruit at Christmas time. I was born in 1955 and I remember getting a orange and apple in my stocking. Loved it. Can you imagine doing that today? Merry Christmas ya'll !
X@@cherrymccall4806And a Happy New Year to you. I remember having fruits in the Christmas stocking and being very grateful.
I love that you have the old photos to go with the house, a nice touch you don't see much with abandoned homes like this.
Big thanks. It brings the story together I feel.
What a fascinating peek into early rural prairie life. All those kids in that little house and no indoor plumbing, or electricity. (That was a propane fridge, and I loved the lantern post with the rusted out reflector that you showed.) That tiny kitchen with all those mouths is to feed and manual labor farming of that huge expanse of land!
I don't think people understand how easy they have it nowadays.
Absolutely 💯 nailed that. We have it too good!
I was curious what the thing on the wall was! Makes sense. 🕯️
That had no actual kitchen in it. It had a nice pantry but no actual kitchen. They used a wood burning stove in the living room to cook on. The "bucket" in the chimney was where the smoke pipe went from the wood burning stove. Where the gas refrigerator sat was , back in the day, was called a "mud room." You'd come in the back and take off your wet and muddy things and wash at the little sink. I grew up on a farm that was built in 1882. It had a mud room just like that tiny home had. You didn't enter the home from farm work through the front door. The coat hooks on the wall are clear indications of that. That refrigerator didn't exist until the mid-1950s.they would have had either an ice-house on property or an icebox. The caller looked like a root-celler for storing home canned goods. It looked as though it was blocked off from the 1st level that it was only accessible from outside at some point as the celler stairs were still in tact and never removed.
Thank you for a great explore...no gimmicks, no subjective/banal commentary, no irritating music. 🙌🏼👍🏼
Thanks. That seems to be the consensus when it comes to these kinds of videos.
i work in rural alberta and sk, everytime i see these old homes, i think about how cool it would be to restore one, built a hell of alot better than new homes...
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If walls could talk
My husband and I restored a house from 1832 in Quebec. It had been owned by a family that basically did the bare minimum on it for 35 years and didn't live in it (they hated each other too much to sell it and split the money). It took us ten years of research and constant hard work to restore it. Anyway, do it. It's such a meaningful project even though we had to sell it. The house in this video could easily be restored, it's still in good condition. And living in an old house is like medicine for your soul. I was never more happy in my life being in that house.
My front bottom itches
It would be not cheap but for sure great thing to do
"For dust you are and to dust you shall return" is all I can think of. Beautiful home.
Yes dust to dust. A lot of it inside.
I love this. No talking or annoying music. Natural sounds, natural light. A bit of text for info - perfect! Thank you so much!
Thanks. That seems to be to consensus amongst people. Nobody needs to hear me blab or listen to my choice in music.
I try imagine the sacred sound of the wind blowing there and the sight of the stars; the night sky with nothing to interfere with such moments.Thank You for such a great video!
Thanks for watching. I’ve shot this house at night and the night sky is amazing.
This is so so so cool. I love these old houses. Every time I see one a strong urge to know about them seizes me. I don't know why the pull to go in them is so strong. Almost an ache like nostalgia brings. Bitter, sweet. I have never felt that for any other houses. Just these. Thanks for a great video.
Hey thanks Dusty. I feel the same way!
I feel the same when I see some old houses ❤ like desperately missing something I can't quite remember
@ally93796 Yes. That's it exactly.
Personally, I like that you touch things. It makes it more like being there for me. That old jacket -- oh my!
The crunchy pink one? I know, right.
I agree, the fact that you touch things makes it feel like we're right there with you!
I don’t think I have ever heard a jacket crunch before lol cool old house though
I agree 😊
Found you by accident and so glad I did! Your videos are magnificent! No talking just sights and sounds…and the views out the windows. Gives a real
Sense of what life was
like for those that lived there.
I love watching this old houses especially the 17-1900s homes. They are very beautiful and holds so many untold stories.
I’m trying to document as many as I can. Thanks for watching.
Same ❤
What a beautiful home, and looking out those windows at the endless, golden prairie.. amazing.
I’d love that view rather than my inner city view.
Very nice original looking farm house. Im from Ontario this particular house style was featured in an 1864 issue of Canadian farmer. Called a cheap farmhouse. They are in every rural town. The design was simple and versatile. My family’s homestead has the same style as this. My grandfather gutted the place in the 70s and I never seen the trim work. Note no indoor bathroom. That wasn’t in the design because indoor plumbing wasn’t a thing yet. Even the kitchen in the back was optional. One has to admire those homes were built by the people who owned them. No contractors no costly bs bureaucracy lining the government pockets. This is the kind of freedom that’s needed to cure a housing crisis.
💯. I’ll see if I can find blue prints.
Thank you for letting me go along with you on the journey…..a house built with love,hard work and compassion…….
Anytime. Lots more coming!
I absolutely love your videos. I love that you are mostly quiet and let the properties/buildings/houses speak for themselves. I also love that you stop and show us some of the small details. I love the small details!! These videos are always very well done. Thank you!!!
Thanks 🙏 truly appreciate your comment.
Seeing the clothes hanging is so emotional to me. Also you are so brave to walk around inside, I’d be afraid of floor boards giving way.
The floor in this home is rock solid. It could be saved.
It's kinda amazing to think they were last worn and hung up neatly by people who are long gone.
Thank you for the silent yet powerful tour. What a grand home.
Thanks. The consensus is people like the silence.
I love that you don't talk and allow the viewers to listen and experience the sound. This is rare in many exploring videos. I also enjoy your fascination on door nobs and hinges. Something I enjoy to observe.
Thanks. The consensus is most people don’t want talking or music. It takes away from the experience. It interferes with the viewers own perception if my voice or choice of music is forced upon your ears.
I enjoyed the tour and can imagine the house full of life back in the day. You take your time on the details which is important. Great job!
Thanks. Some people don’t like I touch things. Others thank me. What do you think?
"Secondary Highway". I love the name. It's in tune with what I personally like to do, take the side & back roads. You see a lot more interesting things.
I also really love the no-talking. Leave us to quietly ponder and imagine. Thank you!
Hi and thanks. I agree. My voice sucks. Lol
I just imagine all the people who have lived there. All the conversations they had. I love this stuff
Me too! 😀
@@secondaryhighway 😃 Subscribed!
My dad was from there.They had horses.I love seeing this.I always imagined what his life was like there.Thank you.Its making me so emotional.Maybe you will come across his families property.I dont know what ever happened to it.I do know that this isnt his family though.
I’d love to find out if it’s still around. Last name?
@@secondaryhighwayMaybe Tomko based off profile but not sure names can change
What a well built house. Nicely framed windows, the typical farmhouse floors, lath and plaster walls and ceilings, a nice place to live and raise a family a century in a quarter ago.
💯. Very well built house and preserved because it’s on the farmers yard.
And those wood floors are still very sound. That roof must be very well made for the house to be so dry after all this time.
Love the homemade little comb holder nailed to the wall by the sink in the mudroom. 4 combs! Looks like it hasn't been touched in quite some time. It's neat to see how people lived in a different era. No time period was perfect, of course, but we can learn from all the good values in the past and apply them.
Thanks for the wonderful look into the past! Very well done...especially with the pictures and historical facts included 👌
Thank you so much for watching. More to come.
Brilliant just love the Silence! This house is in pretty good Condition,could be a Museum Piece with a bit of Work to show our kids how people Lived on the Prairie, Suprising No Pigeons? or Birds? Thank You UK
Ya this one is pretty clean compared to most I’ve been in.
Love the silence too, thank you
That house was full of life back then. Thank you for exploring them😊
Thanks for watching. Many more to come.
I found your videos and I just love them. The way you pause and zoom in the old shoes ,clothing, furniture every nook and corner. It makes their story come alive again, and of course their history. It’s like we are there with you. I will really have my eye on something and a lot of other you tubers whiz on by but you stop and even pluck the layers of paint. That in itself is satisfying. I rate you a 20 in the top 10.
That’s so nice to hear! I’ve watched exploration videos myself and I choose not to speak. Voices, narrations and music are subjective. Leaving everything to nature I feel is the best for most. Huge thanks.
I’m a born and raised rural Albertan myself. These old homesteads are everywhere! The sad part is a lot of them are getting so old and unkept that those who own the property they stand on demolished them as they are usually unsafe to enter. Thank you for showing this and even going into the history of the place. It was very interesting!
Thanks for watching. I used to just take pictures, but the history gnawed at me. I don’t think many are capturing these places on video for historical records for the future. So that’s my plan. If you know of a landowner who’d have me, please keep me in mind! 😀
@@secondaryhighway for sure! I live in BC now but I visit frequently. Most people I know have demolished those buildings from their property but my parents know a lot of people in the area who might know someone who still have some standing.
The hanging jackets got me but that boot tugged at my heart. Great video.
Hey thanks. The shape of the human form left to collect dust are ghostly shapes left for us human souls.
Reminds me of my moms old house we visited her dilapidated childhood home in Nebraska…her family being sharecroppers...the ethereal sadness of so many years gone serving as a reminder to live each day to its fullest. As our time will be in antiquity soon enough.
One of my goals is to document some houses in Nebraska. 😀
My new favorite channel. As recently too. Great POV. I could imagine myself being there exploring.
Hey thanks for coming along!! 😀
i like how you're looking around but being respectful and careful at the same time👍
I do my best. Some don’t want me to tough anything but I can’t help it lol.
@@secondaryhighway interesting video though
@@secondaryhighwayit’s called self control
@@Hawaiianmama Pure Truth
what island if you dont mind me asking?
That place holds such past life. Life in the prairie is still abundant, and a reminder of how short our time here in this world is. The prairie is beautiful!
You nailed it!
I truly enjoyed the tour, I am old now too,but remember all the times i would explore abandoned houses, love to reminisce thies days, ty so much.
Thanks for watching. And if you know of any abandoned places and it's owners or history, let me know and I'll make it part of the channel. Thanks! :)
How wonderful to see the front door glass still in place!
3:35 I wonder if that was the opening for the coal chute?
8:05 that old lantern reflector is fantastic!
10:55 that's one of the most ornate heat vents I've ever seen. So pretty!
What a lovely and cozy old home, and so nice to see so many tidbits left behind.
Thanks for watching. I get I missed a ton of stuff but needed to keep the time watchable 😀
@@secondaryhighway You didn't miss anything. I was commenting on the things you highlighted in the video. 🙂
Same! The heating grate was unique. And pretty sure that was a beautiful quarter sawn oak newel post on the stairs. Can only imagine if the rest of the woodwork is oak.
Beautiful! 🤠
I would bet money the old fridge works.
Can't imagine how cold it got there. Wind blowing across the plains. The bitter cold had to be unbearable.
And we complain purchased seats in our range rovers don’t heat up fast enough lol.
@@secondaryhighwayidk about this “we” but yeah I get your point 😂
All you had and still have to do is bundle up with winter wear and a skee mask for that wind chill. All good to go!
Its hilarious when people say I'm too cold i wish it was summer. When summer rolls around people complain about it being too hot and wishing it was winter. Hahaha
This is so well done, excellent sound and footage, no talking, it feels like I'm there myself. I also love how respectful you are and try to leave everything as it is found...
Hey there hanks like! 👍 😀
The crunch on that coat though 😮 incredible history!
Ya that shocked me lol
Absolutely Beautiful!
I can't thank you enough for sharing this. MEMORIES.
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This was riveting. To see how this family lived for generations! But I could not help but feel how lonely it must have been. No one for miles, it seems. No neighbors. How long before they were able to get to town for supplies - and that by horse? So barren. I live in the woods and the thought of living where no trees are is uneasy for me. But it seems to have been a simple yet fulfilling life for this family. I hope the descendants are all doing well now.
The town was nearby and of course they had neighbours a church and community centre. Huge thanks for watching!
@@secondaryhighway But how far away? Not as far as the eye could see, it seems.
The exterior belies the condition of the interior! Was pleasantly surprised how intact it was.
It’s still a solid house.
Three holes in outer window were to let air in when inside one was opened. We had those in a converted garage apt in Mpls as newly weds in 1961
Roll bar in kitchen held towel to wipe hands…made as one circular piece, then slid off end to wash/dry and start over. Mother in law still had that in her old house kitchen in the ‘60’s in Iowa.
Button in frig turned on lite inside when door was opened! Good when raiding the frig for mid nite snack😊
I appreciate the family history you shared. That was a very nice house, in it's day. Time and weather take it all away...👍🇨🇦😎
Thanks for watching. I gave more coming.
I disagree. It isn’t necessary and seems disrespectful.
I bet that homestead was absolutely glorious back in its time. I would love to see all the veggies and preserves they put up in a year, I bet the larder was full. The children must have been so happy.
A real kind of happy to. 🤩😀
I’m from Calgary and every time I drive up to Edmonton or down to the states I love seeing these old houses. This is a great video
Thanks I’m from Calgary too! 😀
Lovely house, love seeing the old photo's of who once lived there, 11 kids!!! All the coats still hanging was cool (even the crispy one 😂) great tour, thank you Sir 👍🇬🇧👍🇬🇧👍
Ya the crispy one gets a lot of comments haha
Retired shoe cobbler: that shoe at 10:15 ....the quality 100% leather hand made just oil it resole and heel them and ready for another wearing. Amazing how good quality shoes were back then.
Wow I may go back and ask the owners if they’d let me grab them for a restoration.
@secondaryhighway I found something similar on an exploration in the California desert I put it on my service counter in my shop it was a nice conversation piece. Unfortunately it came up missing one day after 25 years sitting there. It was smaller than the one in the video by about 2 sizes and I was a single shoe as well.
I know right! the urge to keep them for yourself is so tempting...
Reminds me a lot of my great grandparents farmhouse out in the Illinois countryside, also built around the turn of the century and looks just like this, they raised 14 children in that house. Thankfully, the house is still in the family and still well looked after, it was even renovated in the 2010s. Wish the one in this video had a similar happy ending.
Thanks for your comment. Not much is known about the Kasa’s after the land was sold.
Great video. That Servel refrigerator is particularly interesting. No electricity needed. It only needed a natural gas or propane source to cool the contents.
Thanks for watching. Still pretty clean!
I grew up in a farmhouse that’s well over 100 years old in Michigan so I find this fascinating! I can’t imagine the day they left the house for the last time. These things would be lost if you didn’t do this video. So thank you for doing this and giving us the history of the family!
Thanks for watching. I typically just photograph these places but it’s turned to video and history for the preservation. We don’t have a big video record of these places at all.
Wow! I love these old house’s! Very awesome video & find! 👍👍❤️🤘
Thanks for watching, Carla.
Wow. Amazing and sad at the same time! Those iron beds are so pretty!
I agree. I love the close up details.
I was thinking about the same! It seems sad that they get left to ruin😒
Those iron beds were NOISY!!! 🤭💞
This house is in remarkably good shape given the condition of the roof. Thanks for sharing the history!
Thanks for watching.
This was so interesting I had to go onto the tv to watch it. Thank you for sharing!
Hey thanks. Looking at my analytics, the majority of people watch it on tv! 🙏🤩
I watch these kinds of videos all the time and this is my favourite of any I've seen. I've gone to Alberta and wandered around endlessly, looking at old towns and old buildings, and I love that you keep showing the sky and fields. To me the essence of Alberta is the sky. This was a simply stunning video. Thank you so much. I also loved the silence, by the way.
Thanks Christine. I’ve heard the silence is what people want. ☺️
Me too! Thank you!
I absolutely love love love that you have gotten the history of the families that have lived in the homes you explore!❤❤❤❤❤
Big thanks. I appreciate your comment 🙏🙏
What a gorgeous house. It's so simple with clean lines abd touches of beauty, like the ironwork, round item above the chair. The quality of the woodwork was so nice.
One of my favourite homes.
Your videos are source of joy for me. Thank you
Thank you. Happy to hear that.
What an awesome video. Very inspiring. You are an excellent editor. Lots of gorgeous scenery. Love your video!!
Thanks for your kind words, Mary!
Soy de Argentina y hoy 11/10/2024 encontré sus videos y me fascina ver estas construcciones tan antiguas que siguen de pie, no se hablar inglés,solo hablo español, gracias por compartir estos videos maravilloso❤️🇦🇷👏👏
Thank you!! And hello from Canada!
I can't get over the great expanse. I'm down here in the lower 48,not in the western part. I see fields but nothing like the prairies you are showing. Miles and miles of nothing. The emptiness makes me feel lonely and I'm not even there. They must have had to stay busy,not only to survive but to stay sane. I know people wrote about our west and how hard it was on the women,and many couldn't take it. It's fascinating but sad at the same time.
I love the expanse. Fine line between loneliness and peace. I have a few stories about this in upcoming videos.
You need to get to Wyoming, the Dakotas 😊
@@kathypriest95 Well if you can set me up with some places I will 100% do that!! :)
Agree with you-these people would have had to be constantly busy just to survive out here-no real time to be lonely but that's not to say they had their moments-the environment back then probably even more hostile and I'm sure it broke a lot of these pioneers/We have no conception of what they had to go through-but it was a day when you would get help from your neighbors and when you would help them which in today's society is opposite of that philosophy and maybe tells us we haven't come as far as we think we have!!!
@secondaryhighway Ten Sleep. I've never been there either but it sure looks like a great start to a grand adventure. Before Yellowstone.
Wow what a beautiful video! I really like how you touch things it brings a deeper connection with the past. I bet the people who lived there would be happy you are exploring appreciating and sharing the wonder of their home with the world
Thanks. I get more good comments about touching things but some wish I don’t. I’m documenting things because I feel 10-20 years from now these places will be lost. 😞
Amazing tour, there's something comforting about the house, it makes me nostalgic for a simpler time. I miss the days before computers and cell phones.
I'm only sixty one, but I remember that style of frigerator growing up and the roller shades on the windows and the old shoes with the leather laces.. When you looked up in the attic, the bones of the house looked Solid, I mean, you could still save that house If you wanted to, very well built and with love.
I hope the farm I see in the background in your drone shot are the descendants, it would be a comfort to know the family still owns and works the land. Thanks for the trip down memory land 🙏
Yes those are the current owners and look after the place. Their father bought it from William Kasa. Thanks for watching. 😀
@secondaryhighway Outstanding good to hear. Thanks for the channel, I just found it today.
What an amazing home! It would be a dream to explore here and imagine the life this family led. Just thinking of all the work that beautiful shoe has seen gives me chills. So glad i found your channel!
Hi Jennifer and thanks for coming along 😀
It’s so amazing that house has stood for sooo long! It looks to me it became abandoned after the parents passed in the 40’s or 50’s. By the items left. The coats still hanging , so amazing! The shoes goodness look way old, from early 1900’s.❤oh so amazing also to see the prairie out the windows, you don’t see that no more! Also I seen at the end were abandoned in the 1970s.
It’s in the farmers backyard which is why it’s in the shape it is, thankfully!
It’s a beautiful house and it’s built well. I get a good feeling over this. A lot of wonderful memories were made here. The mile wide view is astounding to me. Imagine to gallop your horse in the sunset over these fields! Thank you for this! You got yourself a subscriber 👍
Hey huge thank you. More to come!
Amazing video! I love that there's no talking, yet you scroll facts on the screen. (Other explorers talk too much, and it's irritating). I think that little hatch, in the beginning, on the outside may have been a coal shoot. 🤷🏼♀️❤️
I thought so to, but pretty small. Someone else had mentioned that. Probably right. And thanks for the comment!
I have an odd question; did you get the feeling you weren't alone in that house? The house, for me, gave off that kinda vibe. Oh that wooden square in the window is an opening for a coal.shoot. That frame house brings back some memories of my past. Some of my friends lived on farms & in houses of similar designs. I even attended a typical one room school house. Grade 1-8. Two years later all one room school houses were closed down. The sad thing is kids grow up & move away. No one wants to take over the family home any more.
I’ve never had any odd feelings in any of the houses. I’m what they call a “zero” in the paranormal world. I shoot these places at night. Sometimes I get the heebeegeebeez but probably just scared of animals.
CHUTE
You touched the things and now you made this house alive.
lol some people don’t like my touching, but damn I can’t help myself.
Such a shame all are left with no care ... history should be preserved ....
I’m doing my best to preserve it on video for everyone.
If walls could talk? Thank you for the interesting walk through history of the home once loved by a family.
Thanks. Did my best to make it happen.
It was a very nice home and really with the age of it now- being able to walk around in it, upstairs also is proof of how nice it was. Imagine all those people In that home. Lot's of voices, activity. Never a dull moment I suppose. 😊
No internet or Netflix. Just board games and conversation.
House's were built solid back then, for looks like solid foundation & roof. Not like cheap built & charge big bucks today....
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People mostly built their own houses so they built them right. Most people today with the skill to build their own houses would make it just as sturdy as this. If it’s your home you build it to last.
This is an astonishingly well built home-unreal that it's lines are so straight after be exposed to the weather for so long/commentary would have been helpful in the context of how the actual person exploring here felt or acknowledged things in relation to this dwelling!! Definitely Big Sky Country-unimaginable how cold it is there in the winter with the cold relentless winds-talk about being pioneers against the elements!Well Rest in Peace for all your hard work and to any of the surviving family Best Wishes and Hope you are well as you certainly come from good stock!!!! That was a hard life back then and would kill most of us off today trying to do the same things they had to do to survive back then!!!It is a Miracle and a testament to the Legacy this family left that these structures endure-you feel a pride of place and a resiliency that is palpable to this day!!Phenomenal and Evocative af all the hardships endured by our forefathers!!!!God Bless!!Amen!!
Well put and thank you for this! 🙏😀
Seems like a nice solid house,a little sheet rock clean up the old plaster, a good cleaning at least the roof and foundation are good. Its clean . Good for a farm family.
Pretty damn straight. Wood still good. It definitely could be saved if it were moved and cleaned out.
@@secondaryhighwayFlat empty praries, terrible winters, hot summers, the heart break of farming, don't romanticize it from your armchair.
It cracked me up when you tried to get that little knob off of whatever it was on the wall....and then it broke off! I don't think you thought it would break off in your hand! A little "oop!" then trying to stick it back in! You just did a little swipe of your hand like, "Oh, well, whatever." Your reaction was hilarious!
lol thanks. I never break stuff. I could’ve edited out but oh well. Damn lol.
Thank you for this. What a great job you have ❤
Not a full time job…yet. Fingers crossed 🤞
Amazing video. Like actually being there. Good camera work. Good history. Like going on a ride. Mellow and very pleasant. Good job.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for watching!!
I try to imagine the people and the lives that played out in that house. What was their everyday life like? The marriages and deaths and births. She had eleven children!!!
They persevered.
When I first saw the drone pictures I was thinking that it looked just like the house in the Brad Pitt movie about Jessie James. It was so barin just like this house. Great job. I love the quiet exploration.
Thanks Kathy. Most agree that I keep my mouth shut lol.
@@secondaryhighwayBut it's a different take being quiet and I like it! I used to follow this guy and they talked a lot but I like your style much better!
The condition of that house is unbelievable. Very solid still.
It could be restored.
With areas being so remote , it reminds traveling through the mojave desert in southern California with all the litte shacks and houses. I guess people love thier solitude.
Land grants, unpopulated areas, farming the land. What a life.
@@secondaryhighway A bit too far out for me. I like the idea of being so close by to a hospital and a grocery store. Lol. Plus, here in Oregon the some or most farmland. Like here in Klamath Falls.. Half is city with the other half is mostly farmland.
Yes we’re pretty remote in some places up yonder lol.
great stuff. That photo from 1913 made me drop my coffee and rewind. That's as close as we get to time travel.
I love how the landowners just beautifully work around the old yard. Like a Van Gogh....just nice swirls and cuves. Says something about them as I'm sure you could make the case to burn/raze everything and gain an extra 1/3 section.
And the clothes - looks like choring clothes for six people? And again - at what point did they say ' oh we can't be bothered to grab those clothes...they can just hang there forever'.
Thanks for a great video!
Hey thanks for the great comment and viewing. A few people are on my case about touching everything lol. I can’t help it
@@secondaryhighway I get you. I believe places hold a bit of memory and physical contact can make a tiny connection. I visited Graceland last spring and I touched everything. Leaned against walls, brushed carpet, held onto doorknobs longer than necessary…..it meant something. Not silly psychic ‘oh I’m receiving Elvis he’s speaking to me’ but - a tiny connection to the tiny memory a place holds of the energy that once filled it.
Whats cool is that the living room almost looks salvageable. Great video!😊
Ya just a sweep lol solid little place.
I'm a little offended that you didn't "doink" one of the coat hooks next to the fridge. These houses are mesmerizing, so many questions.
Haha on I promise I’ll “doink” one in the future and give you a shout out lol.
@@secondaryhighway I appreciate it, I won't be able to sleep at night, I swear. 😂
A lot of natural light in there! It’s crazy! The designed that little house pretty well!
Still standing strong 💪
Sad when family all gone! There things still there!
Left as a good reminder. That’s why I haven’t capture them now.
I bet in city they would allready destroy it or sell to someone… but in these rural areas home just stays.. if all family is gone
So crazy to think how busy and full of life this land and homes were only 4-5 generations ago...
It has changed so fast!
Awesome video! Any record of when this house was last occupied?
From what understand it was occupied until the early 70’s.
@@secondaryhighway thank you! I see all the outbuildings. Were they all shed-type buildings or storage/barns, or did any of the grown children live there, I wonder.
Really enjoyed this video! How you did this was just perfect. God bless you!
Hey thanks Jesus!! 🙏
Track 9:38 and 10:22: Has everyone noticed the solar panel? I think someone left it there recently, maybe?
lol yes. Sometimes farmed use these places to store junk.
This video was so satisfying on so many levels! .I'm glad I've just found your channel!
Cute tat on left hand too!😍
lol hey thanks. 🙏 😀
It's as if the house dies when it's no longer a home
I’ve thought the same thing.
Thanks, I enjoyed the tour, interesting 😊
Thanks for watching!
I love that house!
Yes it’s solid and a fave of mine.
The stairs looked really sturdy. My house was built in 1916. We raised our 5 kids in it. I lived in it 50 yrs now my son and his family have been in it 8 yrs.
That’s the best! So many memories!
How much rent this three bed room house
Get a lot for this nowadays. Rents expensive.
Fascinating and well documented , wow , great job ..!!..
Hey thanks Shelley!!!
The kitchen fascinated me. To think that a woman made meals for 13 people there without modern conveniences. I love thinking about things like that.
Probably great food too!
Yeah real wholesome food that filled you up and didn't cost a fortune to buy ingredients for@@secondaryhighway
What a nice video! I love the silent explanations mixed with the ambient noise and the photos. I think before watcing this video I would be against the concept of a person exploring an abandoned place and touching things, but one can tell that you do it respectfully, and because of the touching this is the first video of its type that I've actually felt like I was inside the house. Thanks for sharing
That means a lot. I get mixed comments with the touching but I think certain things need to be examined as these places will soon be gone and nobody is taking a close look at the artifacts. I do my best to do it respectfully. Thanks for watching and your feedback.
I agree! Thanks again