You are the best explorer hands down. I'm at the point I shut off the other ones after a few minutes because of their incessant talking. You are so calming. Keep up the great work.
Servant quarters were usually kept separate from the main area of the home back in the 16-1800's. They had access to the kitchen part of the home and slept in the attic rooms.
Oops 😬 I should have read the comments before I commented because I said the same thing 😁 that barn was built like a wooden tank!!! Compared to the house it was still relatively unscathed!!! All it needs is a little spring cleaning and you could start using it tomorrow!!! Heck, I would turn it into a home! It would probably still be there in 2120! Cheers
Just close your eyes and imagine this home 100 years ago! The sounds, smells and the family going about their daily routines. What a grand home this was!
Close your eyes and go back 200 years. No light switches, oil lamps for light, fireplace heat, no A/C, The kitchen was in a separate building, in case of fire, it wouldn't burn down the house. No bathrooms inside.
Do YOU ever feel "if these walls could talk"? I'm telling you, I would absolutely LOVE the opportunity to sit alone in one of those houses that still has remnants inside it and just listen to the house. Like you said, looking around. Seeing dad in his chair with the paper. The kids gathered around the radio. Mom baking cookies in the kitchen. Its nothing tangible, but I do believe that houses, homes are themselves alive while they are lived in. When all life leaves the house, the house dies. There are sooo many echos of stories out there. If we would just listen.😎
Truly amazing furnishings remain. At this point I think saving an antique or a collectable before it gets destroyed by demolition is OK. I think some items have s "life" or "story" of their own to tell. A provenance, if you will. Why should it's story end? Say, in an abandoned house, that belonged to an elderly person who died and had no family to pass their belongings on to, that has been just sitting and debating for decades, you come across something that just deserves to be saved, passed on, seen, whatever. Photos, jewelry, furniture, cars, WHATEVER. I am not a thief but I do believe in an abandoned situation, as much as everyone would like everything to stay exactly as it is forever, some items deserve to be taken to continue their own stories.
What a fantastic house! Even the hinges on the doors were ornate. The wide plank floors, deep windowsills, and arched windows were really unique. Someone had a bit of money when thid was built. I've seen sinks in hallways and closets before, too, our old family home built in the 1800's had them. With the advent of modern plumbing, I surmise folks that had money (and large families) went a little nuts. Everyone could wash up for supper without waiting. The radiators were, to me, another give away why this beautiful home was abandoned. Expensive to maintain and heat a large home like this, and perhaps elderly owners let that slide as they became infirm and their children left for jobs, homes elsewhere. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate your efforts and, like others, found this place fascinating in spite of it's obvious decay. Great history tour, as many of these homes will become unsafe to explore and photograph. Makes me sad, as I love old houses like this and they are disappearing fast.
Leslie LowPretzel THERES still occupied homes today that have only steam radiators - here in st Louis for sure . They say they keep warm but I haven’t had nerve to try it.
@@forpetessake3532 I grew up in an old house with radiators, it was fine until we were out of town and the furnace went out in the middle of winter and all the plumbing for them froze and burst. What a mess.
@@forpetessake3532 I am sure that the radiators in this house were hot water not steam. Based on the type of valve I saw on one of the units on the 2nd floor. I was surprised to see that because I would have expected steam! I wish we could have seen the boiler ! But I think the basement would be unsafe and too weird !
Beautiful farm many years ago. This example is exceptional. Love to know its history and the people who lived here. The screened area of attic made me think of homing pigeons. Especially with the window. They would have been popular in that era.
The Beam Scale near the end , if in the stable area, was most likely for weighing each horseshoe. The shoe weight could determine the gaite of the horse or be used as a corrective measure by using a lighter or heavier shoe. It looks like a large stable and I am sure a farrier was on the property and would need to determine appropriate weighted shoes for each horses situation.
Yes, the draft/plow horses would have larger heavier shoes. The riding horses or carriage would have the lighter shoes. I imagine back then, since they used horses for everything, some of those horses likely needed special custom made or corrective shoes to keep them from going lame.
I just found your channel recently and am binge watching the older videos. I love how you walk through slowly, notice details, and don't play music during your videos. Many other urban explorers race through giving the viewer motion sickness, talk constantly, and play dramatic or too loud music. You really are the best. Be safe out there!
The architecture is astounding enough, but I'm constantly flabbergasted by the antique furniture screaming to be restored in all of your videos. You do such a great job. Thanks for all of your hard work and colossal entertainment!
Such a grand old home! Looks to be at least a couple hundred years old. Sevants quarters in the attic, and an apartment above the carriage house. What a beauty! Sad to see todays society letting treasures like this go to ruin, especially when there are people who can afford to renovate, but choose ugly, new modern instead. Thank you for exploring and taking us along, before these homes are no longer even a memory. You rock!
You know you can search county records. That place is so huge that there must be an interesting story behind it, and I wish you would tell us what the tale of the huge abandoned farm is!
Such an amazing old place, so many rooms. Love the arched windows. Pretty nice out buildings also. Such a shame no one wants to restore it, it could be so beautiful again. Thanks Kappy
I am positive this is in the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, in Dresher, PA. If it's the place I'm thinking of, it belonged to the Paxon family. They were an old Quaker family. In the late 80's, I guess, it was down to two brothers who sold firewood. I remember meeting Bill Paxon. He drove an old pick-up truck. Told me about how his father sold off a huge tract of their land....though he begged him not to. I forget how many acres it was and how much $ he got for it but it hardly seemed like enough. Old Quakers were very distinct in their manner of speaking and their culture. Very old school with their own vernacular and accent. I walked around that property a few years ago. But I didn't get near the barn. I can't believe how big the barn is. It's much more interesting than the house. The inside of the house isn't nearly as nice as I imagined it. But Quakers are nothing if they aren't practical. This property is only twice removed from William Penn. Pretty cool. And sad to see it go. Have to make a point to drive by and see if it's still there or already then down. Thnx for the tour!
Every week I anticipate hearing you say "Here we are today" and I'm never disappointed. This place was spectacular. That weighted contraption in the barn was a scale. They had weights of different sizes that they would attach where the smallish weight was when you found it, and there was a container on the end of the lever that would hold what they were weighing out. It was shaped with a scoop at one side, which made it easier to scoop things like grains or beans, etc., and also to pour it into sacks, which could be stored for future use, or sold. It was obviously a working farm. Beautiful place, and the way you captured it with so much reverence is one of the things that keep me coming back. Love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
The "Main Kitchen"... The Dishwasher is a KitchenAid Model KD-10- or KD-11. They were made around 1946-1956 approx. Made by Hobart The Commercial Kitchen Eqipment Manufacturer. I used to work on those.
This looks like something from the English countryside! Almost every place you go, I think "Oh, if I was younger and rich". They all have such potential. Really breaks my heart when I see Pianos and sewing machines left. Thx again. :)
We all know about other shows like this but I enjoy Kappy best. He is easy to listen to. Not gabby or arrogant. Its not all about him, it's about showing us the viewer's. Thanks Kappy.
The rusty looking item on the floor in front of the big wheel was a mosquito sprayer. You put the poison in the bowl part & there was a handle at the other end and you would pump the spray and it came out of a small nozzle on the front of the bowl. We had one growing up because we lived on a farm and there were lots of mosquitoes.
This would have been a very wealthy farmer's home. The family probably had a herd of dairy cattle as well as growing what they needed for food for both cattle and for themselves. The house has two sets of stairs...one for the family in the front and one for the servants in the back. The home would have been quite impressive in its time. Thanks for the explore.
@Elana Vitel……Possibly slave or servants quarters…..or just hired help. Not everyone had slaves back then. Many folks were opposed to that. Don’t believe all the crap you hear. The Also had that carriage or spring house and that could have been used to house the farm hands. No a bad place to reside at the time. I’m sure everyone ate well.
Wow, what an incredible old house!!! Definitely 1700’s. The front door is not centered, so maybe the far 1/3rd side of the house was an add-on. The pillar on that side is leaning in too. Along with the flowers it looks like several Bibles in the first 2 rooms. In most steamer trunks the dividers came out to reveal hidden space in the bottom. Like someone else said, I think the second room was a dining room and the last little room was an add-on. This house is almost like a “shotgun” house but the front door isn’t on the end. The barn was amazing!! The first stalls look like where you milk dairy cows. Horses and maybe a few oxen. The large wagon wheel inside could have come from an oxen cart that was used for farming. Awesome video Kappy!! One of your best!! Stay Safe!! ☺️🏚❤️
Usually the smallest part is the oldest then added on bigger as became settled and wealthier. The door hardware also suggests along with the woodwork and door openings.
Those books looked to be from a set of Encyclopedia Americana from the 1950’s, a prized possession in my home growing up. I kept one volume as a keepsake.
This is easily my favorite home so far. I hate to hear that it’s being torn down, what a shame to let something so beautiful fall into such disrepair. The furniture that was left behind is amazing. Thanks so very much Kappy for sharing this beautiful find. Have a great weekend. 😊
So disappointing that it is left to rot all these years! Owners or the state or whom ever owns these places should sell or auction these places off! They need to be saved!
Those push button light switches date back to the 1920s & earlier I love exploring old places like this I can only imagine what these houses were like when first built & beautiful too thanks for sharing. the old piano probably was added to the house maybe the late 1700s old stsnd up pianos may have a date when made on the back my grandmother had 1 April 1881
You should wear a breathing mask in this type house: back then was lead in the paint, asbestos in the walls, and now mold...and bird/bat droppings and rat droppings will make you sick
great tour as always, My great grandparents had a very large house , it was not a mansion but a working farm house with 13 kids, (no servants )hence the back stairs in their house. My grandfather ( with 9 kids) had plumbing /electric put in sometime in the 20s and it was a mish/mash of oddities and a great place to play in..lol thanks so much, I'm worried you're going to run out of places to take us too!
Loved it Kappy! I think maybe that thing in the barn was a scale of some kind. The Whacky-Pack stickers on the door @10:05 really took me back, I used to have all of 'em back in the 70's when I was a kid. We had the exact same kitchen clock as that one in the dishwasher, again back in the early 70's. I'm thinking this place has probably been empty since around then, nothing looks newer than very early 70's. Thanks for another great one!
On the second floor, In the bedroom window, was a 1940's porcelain urinal, and the beautiful iron hanging on the wall downstairs I think, was where they'd sat their oil lamps. Not sure, but I think that was an old scale in the barn. The house would be beautiful restored, it has a lot of history, Also, the floor radio was a 1940's ( Zenith) ? Great house and tour, thanks 😊
@@snickers2877 It's a balance scale, but parts are missing. The "chopping blade" is actually a graduated scale, with a sliding weight. There'd be main weights that would hang (like the ones dangling on the top mechanism) you'd add, then fine-tune it with the sliding weight to get the smaller measures, like ounces. I was an inventory counting clerk in an electronics plant and the guy who worked filling the parts order would put nuts or bolts or whatever in a hanging cup then dump the parts from a detachable bin until the thing balanced. I had to help him take inventory at the end of the fiscal year, so this thing sure saved time. Farms would naturally have regular balance scales for measuring farm products.
@@snickers2877 yup right answer, the weights go on the hook as a counterweight while using the slide. I am missing 2 small weights from mine but use it to weigh and bag 10,20 and 50 pound bags of potatoes
What a lovely property. You really get the homes to tell their individual stories to us. I appreciate the time you take to thoroughly cover each home. It’s refreshing to have younger folks like yourself take such a keen interest in documenting and appreciating these historical gems. Your a credit to the TH-cam community. 🌺
Kappy your videos are a walk through time... a look through the keyhole... into how people live in the past.... and you are so professional in your method .. nice on the eyes no fast panning and stay on the interesting items.. to give a date period... ie.. door latches/door knobs... furniture .. old radiograms that what my mom n dad called them ... we had two back in Utah... i had only one 75.... Slim Whitman " Rose-Marie ... i played it over n over drove my parents half mad.... in the end it was confiscated but i found it along with a few more... Scott. Joplin Muddy Waters... Fats Waller...... good old days.... yeah great posting Kappy thanks for sharing with us ..... Ed... from Sierra Vista AZ
That house is gorgeous just the way it stands. I have seen worse houses restored. This one has stone walls that doesn't rot. I know roof and floors are bad but it could be done. That side room off of the kitchen is called a summer kitchen. They would say time have a stove out there so the heat doesn't come into the house. As a kid we had on on our house and was at least 10 degrees cooler than the house. Ours had cement floor which probably helped with cooling. Usually on side of house out of direct sunlight so it doesn't heat up as much. Love your filming, traveling slowly over items and getting all of the small details of the house. I love the electrical switches, doorknobs and hinges. I also loved the wide planked floors upstairs. The barn is awesome. In older barns they have the animals facing inwards. Really cool.
Thank you for caring enough to make these homestead videos to document these wonderful places you find. This home is up there in the top ten of my most favorites.
Thank you always for your incredible explores. A newer house would never last in that condition. It would have caved in 20 years ago. You truly are a professional when it comes to your camera work and explores. That would have been a absolutely beautiful property back in the day
Thanks Kappy for sharing with me this video about the beautiful Abandoned Mansion* Antiques inside w/ spring house & huge barn Kappy that was some house and the barn was also really big too my friend thanks for sharing it with me and i can't wait to see your next video my friend and God Bless and thanks again.
Like the quiet, with birds, and minor talking, easy voice, most enjoyable. Thanks new to your vids, great for quarantine educational, places I'll never get to, I loved to do this when I was younger, to old now, thanks Pamela
This house has some beautiful woodwork and hardware. It is seriously creepy. I believe you hit the nail on the head when you said 1700's. It looks like it hasn't been lived in for at least 50 years and dude get ya' some good work boots. I wouldn't want you to get hurt. Thanks for bringing us a great one.
Wow! What a beauty! Any chance you may be able to find and post some pictures from the old girl's hay day? She's a gorgeous old mansion and there are no remaining family members around to save her?!
Thanks! Really enjoyed! In barn, looks like the big scale my daddy has in the barn for feed bags, and my husband has one in shop for seed bags. Would have a large platform at bottom to sit the bags. Thank you! So glad you zoomed in on things for detail. Wish you would try to tell us titles of books. Books tell a lot about former inhabitants. Great job!
As an antique book collector, I’d love to see what those books are😊. They could be very valuable. Too bad they are left to rot when they could be saved and appreciated.
They look like they’re from a set of Encyclopedia Americana. I still have one from my family’s set from the 1950’s, they were a luxury item and prized possession.
I have the identical Sears sewing machine. My mom gave it to me for high school graduation in 1980. The second room might have been the dining room. I love that old bracket at 8:15. I'm guessing it was for standing a candle or lantern on? The shaped windows were also beautiful and that massive barn was very impressive. Thanks for the tour!
Slayerjane61 I saw that bracket on the wall too. It was awesome. I have a sewing machine similar to that one but mine is from Montgomery Ward. A neighbor gave it to me and I still use it.
Yes Kappy you are the best. Because you don't go so fast that it makes us dizzy headed. You go in with respect. Don't make alot of noise. Love you the best of all.❤️
@@machinegurlll not sure which state this house is located. By vloggers voice midwest somewhere I think. Despite interior or exterior damage being built in 1700's is a historic bldg. In CA no one would be allowed to tear down. In the 60's many of our historical treasures were torn down with attitudes like yours. In the 80's laws were passed to preserve our history.
@@annskaggs4475 This is beyond saving. To bad. There may have been a time to save it but now every piece of lumber in the structure is rotten, from inside the walls ceiling to the floors and obviously roof. Not sure how it could be saved now even if there was a real desire by someone, even someone with the funds could even save it. Can't just sheetrock and plaster over and hide the rot.
They would have called the sink in its little nook a "stationary washstand". The staircase is a simple federal design (late 1700s to early 1800s) and the mantel looks kinda federal too, along with the rounded arches, but the fireplace brickwork appears to be newer. There's obviously been some remodeling at some point.
Amazing old beauty. I would love to have the $ to restore something like that. So many bedrooms. Love the hardware, arched windows & deep windowsills. They had a great business at one time, with that huge barn. Really makes you wonder...loved this!! Thank you, Kappy.
This beautiful home should be saved not torn down! Very beautiful n very unique layout. I love the steamer trunks! I have one with stickers on it from all over the world. At least you didn't come face to face with a vulture this time. The barn was really cool n large. Maybe raised horses in barn and carrier pigeons in the attic? Who knows. Stay safe in Florida Kappy. We need you to keep putting out this amazing videos! Great video as always. God bless.
pretty house and those plants by the trunk look like they are trying to escape to the outside. Poor plants. those trunks look so pretty. to bad they were not given away to someone to use. such beauty in the ruin. Not a bad place for a sink i guess. wow the wagon wheel what a great find. love the arched windows. oh my that barn is huge. Beautiful grounds at this place. loved it. thank you for taking me along. lonG lean on God
There's a part of the homestead missing. You can see the outline of a roofline on the side of the barn, 18.41, where you were admiring the massive stone wall. Likely was an open covered yard between the barn and the building with the side stairs. Looks like much of the stonework is sound. It might be possible to restore by gutting and rebuilding the interior, preserving the stone walls.
Neat explore. I’d love to see a plan of that house. Growing up in a house that had been added onto two or three times I can appreciate weird configurations of rooms. The modern light switch on the third floor was interesting. The barn was prob my favorite. My husband says it looks like a scale also. Stay safe in Hilton Head. Thanks for sharing.
As one of your other views stated; the item in the barn that you were asking about is a barn scales. I still have one in my barn that we used when we were farming. We used it to weigh bales of tobacco as well as burlap bags of various types of grain.
This place is amazing! Some of those stickers on the door take me back. They were sold in the 70s in packs like ball cards. They were called "Wacky Stickers".
Loved seeing the very thick walls of the house to keep inside temperature regulated. The house is too old to have initially had electric and indoor plumbing, thus why the downstairs sink was put in a funky spot-probably was a closet. The upstairs bathroom looked like an addition. The barn had such architecture! Would have been wonderful to live there. Great video
You find the most interesting places still relatively undisturbed.....and a thorough (not too fast, jerky) examination of the artifacts of someone's life
Awesome find, we could almost imagine people living here in the 40s and 50s s thinking they had something awesome and lucky to have this treasure, but now days people want cheap with no imagination , truly sad we have become a generation with no vision ... Thanks for sharing love these videos 🙏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🤗💕
I may be way off the mark but the room in the attic with the fine mesh over the large partial wall opening and lots of light? When you opened the door to that CLOSED off little room which had a small iron bed in it...it opened into a rather cheerful painted room with two beautiful little windows and a mirror. It could have been a "disappointments room". I'm sure some people know what that is. If a family had a disabled child, whether mentally or with physical infirmities, there was a "shame" attached to that and people locked up the child often in the attic. They kept them from prying eyes. The small stairs were right there near the kitchen and straight up to enter either the larger of those two upper rooms or close by. When the family could go up to care for the child, he could play or sit with them in the "play" area. It just had all the hall Mark's of a "disappointments room". (This one is much more "homey" and humane than some I've read about which were tiny closed rooms with no windows and a locked door. Terrible that!)
The unconnected room in the attic was most likely the servants quarters. If it was built in the 1700s they definitely had live in servants which usually had their own stairs, room and door which they were supposed to use. Thank you for sharing this video and showing us this amazing old structure! 😁 Cheers
Place was huge, in the last room in attic on sill of 2nd window shown was a bedpan for at least from the 1920’s , what a shame that it was wasted away, it’s at least 5/6 damage, and take a kings ransom to restore, must of been majestic in its day and working farm and im sure plenty of horses too, Great video and job
I decided to watch this from your most recent video on it. It’s crazy how much it has deteriorated in that little time between videos. It is so bad somebody couldn’t have saved this house! I really enjoyed it, I love the quirkiness! Take care
What you passed through on the other side of the stairs was the formal dining room. That little sink between the dining room and the kitchen was where one would wash their hands before dinner. Very classy. I'd pay a good amount of money for the hanging saucer light in the kitchen and that copper chandelier in the dining room!!! VERY 1950s! OMG those stickers on the door in the upstairs!! I forgot what they were called but we used to get them as bubblegum cards and stickers back in the 80s and they were so funny! Kind of gross parodies of products lmao if you had a twisted sense of humor, you collected them. I did ha ha! That was an awesome house. And I didn't even know what a spring house was until this video. I had to google "spring house". I think that thing in the horse barn was a weighing scale. I liked this video. I wished I could restore this house and live in it. Kind of creepy - great for Halloween! But kind of lovely at the same time. Nice. **EDIT** Those funny/gross stickers were called "garbage pail kids" a twisted parody in itself of "cabbage patch kids". God I loved getting those things lol I think they went as far back as the early 70s.
My mother grew up with a spring house down at the creek on cotton farm. Kept eggs, butter that they churned and milk from the cow until they got an "ice box" in the house. 1930-40's.
Another stone house. Beautiful! That’s a gorgeous barn too. This would’ve been some house in its day. Yes lay out a little weird but it’s still beautiful. It’s not uncommon to see back stairs, servants stairs, in these big old houses but this is the first Time I’ve seen two sets of attic stairs. A place this big, the attic may have been set up for servants originally. Good explore!!
Very large house. Sad to see it will have to go. There are red flowers (fake or) all over the house...seems like a testament to good bye. Look at the old sink on the back porch!!!! The house has some nice windows. Something different. Upstairs may of been servants quarters. Salvageable lumber in the barn!! What a most enjoyable video. Thank you.
So pretty from the outside! I have two trunks of the camp variety, excellent for storage and seating. Someone cut out the hardware on that door! The old Flit sprayer. The bottle of Karo syrup in the wagon wheel room. The cartoon wall. My grandma's house was like that and it is still standing. So much interesting architecture. The final room might have been aviary. Obviously someone with money. Sad it isn't being preserved.
A real beauty, Kappy, but I'm sure you're right about it not lasting much longer. The minute I saw the large holes in the roof, I knew the floors and ceilings would probably be a mess. Then, when you entered and I saw that vase of very bright red (artificial) flowers I thought, "Oh, Kappy's not the first: here's been one of those nudniks who likes to pose added things here and there to "improve" the shoot. Finding single blossoms here and there, including some white ones upstairs, pretty much proves it, as they'd be dirty as that moldy globe. That old radio on the first floor---not the radio/phonograph console---took me back to my own Radio Days when I was a kid. We had one similar---ours had spooled pillars in front of the speaker cloth and sat on the floor listening to "Little Orphan Annie," "RRRRacket Busters," "The FBI in Peace and War," "Terry and the Pirates," and my favorite, since I was an airplane nut, "Blackhawk," about a band freelance fighter pilots who had adventures all over the place. (They flew the exotic-looking Grumman XF5F Skyrocket twin-engine [piston] fighter planes---of which only one was built, but it sure fired our imaginations!) At Christmastime there was "Jimby and Ellie Elephants" and "The Cinnamon Bear."
The original kitchen was very interesting. Looks like it probably had a huge fireplace, probably for cooking and for warmth. The sink in the hallway was nothing I've ever seen, but looks like it would have been original to a house of that era. Thanks for the tour. I can't believe explorers don't fall through the floors in these old buildings.
This is definitely one of my favorites. I would love to have that wagon wheel light that was in the room you first thought was the kitchen -- my Granny and Granddad had one hanging above their kitchen table all the time I was growing up. It brought back a lot of memories. I did think it was kind of creepy that there were random flowers laid throughout the rooms; the flowers in the vase didn't really even look dusty -- they didn't even look faded. Great video, as always! Please stay safe.
If one take takes this in several stages/phases and sees it as a long term project, I dunno 10-15 year span, and or if one form a society/foundation/trust or whatever I believe it might be possible to save/perserve. Step 1, make sure the house is watertight and unexposed for the environment, so it becomes a watertight seal. step 2, do one by one room/floor/section etc. Given how the economy in this is. And if the stables are/where the cattle once was and being fixed to function it can be used as an gallery/exhibition for local artists, or turning it in to a pop up bar/pub if it makes sense on where it's located and ppl. Would go to the place. Sorry I just get Ideas evev if It might be unrealistic. 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks. Best Explore EVER! And you are braver than I. I never would have risked walking on those decaying floors. I am so glad that you pulled it off, and didn't get hurt. Fascinating video. Great job!
Awesome coverage on this old beauty! I could almost imagine the generations living there...and as the house aged...the updates that were made..like the light switch with buttons....and in later years the dishwasher in the kitchen. I noticed the brass “Pull down” lamp...it was circular... My parents had one of those in our house, it was built in 1954. The device you asked about in the barn is definitely a scale. I bet it weighed grain. I agree with another comment made here...the upper most rooms most likely were for the help in the early years. It must be a coop of some sort to up there. I guess they could of been for pigeons, there is a roost there...anyway...this was super cool, thanks!
You have the knack for finding some pretty incredible places. Your videography and attention to detail is quite accomplished as well. Definitely a cool channel.
Thanks again for another good one. I do have one request. I'd love for you to show more of the hardware on the doors at eye level. It's just so interesting. I appreciate you taking us on these tours of these wonderful places.
Love this one, so many interesting things going on here! Wish you could have spent more time exploring the barn area inside and out. Love the stone work! As an artist I find all these textures so much fun to paint!
Just that huge rim lock on the door with the small brass knob... the complete set is worth several hundred dollars! It appeared some others may have already been removed. If I had been there I don’t believe I could have resisted the temptation!
That television set w/ remote @ 4:06 is probably the best evidence available from this video to determine when this property had last been vacant. And if it is, then all indication would point to this house having been vacant at least up until the early 90s. I think the rate of decay/damage without any maintenance up until the time this video was shot is pretty consistent with any abandoned structure that had been left alone for the same amount of time.
This one is pretty from the outside. As old as it is, I'm sure it has its tales to tell and even a few yarns to spin! So much history has passed without and within these sturdy walls. It doesn't look too bad inside for its age, though it does appear to be a hazard to foot traffic. It almost seems as if the people just stepped out of the house. No ornate woodwork here, for the old time Quakers lived very plain lives. The radio and the stereo and sewing machine are luxuries the builders of this house could not even imagine! If this were a more modern home, I'd say that sink was part of a jack and jill bath. Maybe it was a place for people to wash up before cooking or eating meals. That wagon wheel is amazing! I'm not sure, but it could be from the very early 1900s. The staircase is beautiful in its simplicity. Ah, teenagers! I remember my sister collecting those stickers from my teenage years, and I graduated in 1976! They haven't gotten less funny with age. The bathroom window is stunning. The hinges on that door are lovely, too. That is one big house! I wonder if it was cold or if the fireplaces heated the stone walls. Whoa, what a mirror! So much for simple living! Those arched windows are so pretty. Wow, this is a really huge mess! More of the pretty windows. They're a unique detail. Its strange that the mirrors are in the attic! This is a charming little springhouse. Kappy, there is a natural spring in the house, cooling the interior and any food or drinkable that are placed in the channels filled with water. The shelves and pegs are for things which needed to be cool, not wet. The task accomplished, the water was allowed to escape into a holding pond sometimes stocked with fish and generally a great place to grow watercress. Incredible old post and beam barn! Mark Bowe would love to turn his crew loose on this one! Great house, Kappy! I'm almost sorry to see your later video, but I'm a faithful fan, so here goes!
At-19:15- that may have helped cur the hay, or string it into bundles, then tie and cut the string. They probably would have had alot of horses, cows, pigs, sheep & chickens back then I would have guessed. Beautiful old home could still be restored but would take ALOT of money. The roof/floors would have to come up & the foundation, walls repaired. Molds, bugs, vermin gotten rid of. Would take ALOT of work and effort but it sure would be worth it. Thank you for all of your efforts to record this old beauty. Maybe some one might see this video & fall in love with it and would have the money to fix it. I hope so.
Wow! Sad to see such treasures left behind to decay. My word all those steamers. The light switch (toggle) is like my grandparents had ~ love those Thank you for another wonderful explore. Appreciate your thoughtfulness during them
I love the smaller staircase and the attic stairs. Cute upstairs bathroom. Pretty windows. Looked larger from the outside. You are always careful and respectful. Ya'll make me nervous when you explore alone. Be safe.
Kappy that place must of been gorgeous in its time,its so sad to see it in this shape.thanks for another amazing find & be safe during this hurricane :-)
Its kitchen you saw was probably a dining room and the secret staircase you saw when entering the kitchen was probably the servants staircase. Great video!
I would say the narrow stair well was probably for servants or Nanny. The small sink at the bottom of those was where the help could freshen up I would say Plenty of space for several servants
You are the best explorer hands down. I'm at the point I shut off the other ones after a few minutes because of their incessant talking. You are so calming. Keep up the great work.
I agree! I'm new and i just found his channel last week from another creator.
Agree!!!!!! Kappy’s the best explorer... takes his time and shows us the details when he can!!
Or there 20 minute videos that are 15 minutes of buy my merch talk then a 5 minute explore
And a lot of them are turning ghost hunters
@@pmlugo3599 ewu
Servant quarters were usually kept separate from the main area of the home back in the 16-1800's. They had access to the kitchen part of the home and slept in the attic rooms.
Oops 😬 I should have read the comments before I commented because I said the same thing 😁 that barn was built like a wooden tank!!! Compared to the house it was still relatively unscathed!!! All it needs is a little spring cleaning and you could start using it tomorrow!!! Heck, I would turn it into a home! It would probably still be there in 2120!
Cheers
Just close your eyes and imagine this home 100 years ago! The sounds, smells and the family going about their daily routines. What a grand home this was!
There has got to be a hidden passage way in this house that time has forgotten...
Close your eyes and go back 200 years. No light switches, oil lamps for light, fireplace heat, no A/C, The kitchen was in a separate building, in case of fire, it wouldn't burn down the house. No bathrooms inside.
Close your eyes to the reason why this house had so many secret rooms .
Do YOU ever feel "if these walls could talk"? I'm telling you, I would absolutely LOVE the opportunity to sit alone in one of those houses that still has remnants inside it and just listen to the house. Like you said, looking around. Seeing dad in his chair with the paper. The kids gathered around the radio. Mom baking cookies in the kitchen. Its nothing tangible, but I do believe that houses, homes are themselves alive while they are lived in. When all life leaves the house, the house dies. There are sooo many echos of stories out there. If we would just listen.😎
Truly amazing furnishings remain. At this point I think saving an antique or a collectable before it gets destroyed by demolition is OK. I think some items have s "life" or "story" of their own to tell. A provenance, if you will. Why should it's story end? Say, in an abandoned house, that belonged to an elderly person who died and had no family to pass their belongings on to, that has been just sitting and debating for decades, you come across something that just deserves to be saved, passed on, seen, whatever. Photos, jewelry, furniture, cars, WHATEVER. I am not a thief but I do believe in an abandoned situation, as much as everyone would like everything to stay exactly as it is forever, some items deserve to be taken to continue their own stories.
What a fantastic house! Even the hinges on the doors were ornate. The wide plank floors, deep windowsills, and arched windows were really unique. Someone had a bit of money when thid was built. I've seen sinks in hallways and closets before, too, our old family home built in the 1800's had them. With the advent of modern plumbing, I surmise folks that had money (and large families) went a little nuts. Everyone could wash up for supper without waiting. The radiators were, to me, another give away why this beautiful home was abandoned. Expensive to maintain and heat a large home like this, and perhaps elderly owners let that slide as they became infirm and their children left for jobs, homes elsewhere. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate your efforts and, like others, found this place fascinating in spite of it's obvious decay. Great history tour, as many of these homes will become unsafe to explore and photograph. Makes me sad, as I love old houses like this and they are disappearing fast.
Leslie LowPretzel THERES still occupied homes today that have only steam radiators - here in st Louis for sure . They say they keep warm but I haven’t had nerve to try it.
@@forpetessake3532 I grew up in an old house with radiators, it was fine until we were out of town and the furnace went out in the middle of winter and all the plumbing for them froze and burst. What a mess.
@@forpetessake3532 I am sure that the radiators in this house were hot water not steam. Based on the type of valve I saw on one of the units on the 2nd floor. I was surprised to see that because I would have expected steam! I wish we could have seen the boiler ! But I think the basement would be unsafe and too weird !
Willie Beamish 😮
Beautiful farm many years ago. This example is exceptional. Love to know its history and the people who lived here. The screened area of attic made me think of homing pigeons. Especially with the window. They would have been popular in that era.
I thought the same thing! We used to have them.
@@81licker Ditto
It's got to be pigeons!
The Beam Scale near the end , if in the stable area, was most likely for weighing each horseshoe. The shoe weight could determine the gaite of the horse or be used as a corrective measure by using a lighter or heavier shoe. It looks like a large stable and I am sure a farrier was on the property and would need to determine appropriate weighted shoes for each horses situation.
Yes, the draft/plow horses would have larger heavier shoes. The riding horses or carriage would have the lighter shoes. I imagine back then, since they used horses for everything, some of those horses likely needed special custom made or corrective shoes to keep them from going lame.
I just found your channel recently and am binge watching the older videos. I love how you walk through slowly, notice details, and don't play music during your videos. Many other urban explorers race through giving the viewer motion sickness, talk constantly, and play dramatic or too loud music. You really are the best. Be safe out there!
The architecture is astounding enough, but I'm constantly flabbergasted by the antique furniture screaming to be restored in all of your videos. You do such a great job. Thanks for all of your hard work and colossal entertainment!
Such a grand old home! Looks to be at least a couple hundred years old. Sevants quarters in the attic, and an apartment above the carriage house. What a beauty! Sad to see todays society letting treasures like this go to ruin, especially when there are people who can afford to renovate, but choose ugly, new modern instead.
Thank you for exploring and taking us along, before these homes are no longer even a memory. You rock!
You know you can search county records. That place is so huge that there must be an interesting story behind it, and I wish you would tell us what the tale of the huge abandoned farm is!
Such an amazing old place, so many rooms. Love the arched windows. Pretty nice out buildings also. Such a shame no one wants to restore it, it could be so beautiful again. Thanks Kappy
I am positive this is in the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, in Dresher, PA. If it's the place I'm thinking of, it belonged to the Paxon family. They were an old Quaker family. In the late 80's, I guess, it was down to two brothers who sold firewood. I remember meeting Bill Paxon. He drove an old pick-up truck. Told me about how his father sold off a huge tract of their land....though he begged him not to. I forget how many acres it was and how much $ he got for it but it hardly seemed like enough. Old Quakers were very distinct in their manner of speaking and their culture. Very old school with their own vernacular and accent. I walked around that property a few years ago. But I didn't get near the barn. I can't believe how big the barn is. It's much more interesting than the house. The inside of the house isn't nearly as nice as I imagined it. But Quakers are nothing if they aren't practical. This property is only twice removed from William Penn. Pretty cool. And sad to see it go. Have to make a point to drive by and see if it's still there or already then down. Thnx for the tour!
Every week I anticipate hearing you say "Here we are today" and I'm never disappointed. This place was spectacular. That weighted contraption in the barn was a scale. They had weights of different sizes that they would attach where the smallish weight was when you found it, and there was a container on the end of the lever that would hold what they were weighing out. It was shaped with a scoop at one side, which made it easier to scoop things like grains or beans, etc., and also to pour it into sacks, which could be stored for future use, or sold. It was obviously a working farm.
Beautiful place, and the way you captured it with so much reverence is one of the things that keep me coming back. Love your videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
The "Main Kitchen"... The Dishwasher is a KitchenAid Model KD-10- or KD-11. They were made around 1946-1956 approx. Made by Hobart The Commercial Kitchen Eqipment Manufacturer. I used to work on those.
This looks like something from the English countryside! Almost every place you go, I think "Oh, if I was younger and rich". They all have such potential. Really breaks my heart when I see Pianos and sewing machines left. Thx again. :)
Wow what a gorgeous old place. I loved the spring house and the pond and my favorite was the barn. x
We all know about other shows like this but I enjoy Kappy best. He is easy to listen to. Not gabby or arrogant. Its not all about him, it's about showing us the viewer's. Thanks Kappy.
The rusty looking item on the floor in front of the big wheel was a mosquito sprayer. You put the poison in the bowl part & there was a handle at the other end and you would pump the spray and it came out of a small nozzle on the front of the bowl. We had one growing up because we lived on a farm and there were lots of mosquitoes.
This would have been a very wealthy farmer's home. The family probably had a herd of dairy cattle as well as growing what they needed for food for both cattle and for themselves. The house has two sets of stairs...one for the family in the front and one for the servants in the back. The home would have been quite impressive in its time. Thanks for the explore.
That was my thought.
I wonder, could it have been slave quarters?
@Elana Vitel……Possibly slave or servants quarters…..or just hired help. Not everyone had slaves back then. Many folks were opposed to that. Don’t believe all the crap you hear. The Also had that carriage or spring house and that could have been used to house the farm hands. No a bad place to reside at the time. I’m sure everyone ate well.
Wow, what an incredible old house!!! Definitely 1700’s. The front door is not centered, so maybe the far 1/3rd side of the house was an add-on. The pillar on that side is leaning in too. Along with the flowers it looks like several Bibles in the first 2 rooms. In most steamer trunks the dividers came out to reveal hidden space in the bottom. Like someone else said, I think the second room was a dining room and the last little room was an add-on. This house is almost like a “shotgun” house but the front door isn’t on the end. The barn was amazing!! The first stalls look like where you milk dairy cows. Horses and maybe a few oxen. The large wagon wheel inside could have come from an oxen cart that was used for farming. Awesome video Kappy!! One of your best!! Stay Safe!! ☺️🏚❤️
Usually the smallest part is the oldest then added on bigger as became settled and wealthier. The door hardware also suggests along with the woodwork and door openings.
Those books looked to be from a set of Encyclopedia Americana from the 1950’s, a prized possession in my home growing up. I kept one volume as a keepsake.
That is a fantastic house. If I had money I would renovate and restore that house in a heartbeat. Another great explore.
This is easily my favorite home so far. I hate to hear that it’s being torn down, what a shame to let something so beautiful fall into such disrepair. The furniture that was left behind is amazing. Thanks so very much Kappy for sharing this beautiful find. Have a great weekend. 😊
Agreed was definitely one of top 10 favorite places ive ever explored! Just an incredible place that should be saved, thank you for watching! (:
So disappointing that it is left to rot all these years! Owners or the state or whom ever owns these places should sell or auction these places off! They need to be saved!
Those push button light
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I love exploring old places
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You should wear a breathing mask in this type house: back then was lead in the paint, asbestos in the walls, and now mold...and bird/bat droppings and rat droppings will make you sick
go wash your hands
Calm down he’s not moving in
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What a worrywart
great tour as always, My great grandparents had a very large house , it was not a mansion but a working farm house with 13 kids, (no servants )hence the back stairs in their house. My grandfather ( with 9 kids) had plumbing /electric put in sometime in the 20s and it was a mish/mash of oddities and a great place to play in..lol thanks so much, I'm worried you're going to run out of places to take us too!
Loved it Kappy! I think maybe that thing in the barn was a scale of some kind. The Whacky-Pack stickers on the door @10:05 really took me back, I used to have all of 'em back in the 70's when I was a kid. We had the exact same kitchen clock as that one in the dishwasher, again back in the early 70's. I'm thinking this place has probably been empty since around then, nothing looks newer than very early 70's. Thanks for another great one!
Wow! Amazing old house! That second attic stairs was incredible! Steep & twisted! I just love these wanders through old houses! Thank you!!
On the second floor, In the bedroom window, was a 1940's porcelain urinal, and the beautiful iron hanging on the wall downstairs I think, was where they'd sat their oil lamps. Not sure, but I think that was an old scale in the barn. The house would be beautiful restored, it has a lot of history, Also, the floor radio was a 1940's ( Zenith) ? Great house and tour, thanks 😊
It's a scale, still use the one I have. This is by far my favorite, love all the stone work to bad it cant be saved.
Why can't it?
@@chaosdemonwolf1 he says in the beginning of the video it's going to be torn down.
@@vjones9606 Bloody shame
@@snickers2877 It's a balance scale, but parts are missing. The "chopping blade" is actually a graduated scale, with a sliding weight. There'd be main weights that would hang (like the ones dangling on the top mechanism) you'd add, then fine-tune it with the sliding weight to get the smaller measures, like ounces. I was an inventory counting clerk in an electronics plant and the guy who worked filling the parts order would put nuts or bolts or whatever in a hanging cup then dump the parts from a detachable bin until the thing balanced. I had to help him take inventory at the end of the fiscal year, so this thing sure saved time. Farms would naturally have regular balance scales for measuring farm products.
@@snickers2877 yup right answer, the weights go on the hook as a counterweight while using the slide. I am missing 2 small weights from mine but use it to weigh and bag 10,20 and 50 pound bags of potatoes
What a lovely property. You really get the homes to tell their individual stories to us. I appreciate the time you take to thoroughly cover each home. It’s refreshing to have younger folks like yourself take such a keen interest in documenting and appreciating these historical gems. Your a credit to the TH-cam community. 🌺
Kappy your videos are a walk through time... a look through the keyhole... into how people live in the past.... and you are so professional in your method .. nice on the eyes no fast panning and stay on the interesting items.. to give a date period... ie.. door latches/door knobs... furniture .. old radiograms that what my mom n dad called them ... we had two back in Utah... i had only one 75.... Slim Whitman " Rose-Marie ... i played it over n over drove my parents half mad.... in the end it was confiscated but i found it along with a few more... Scott. Joplin Muddy Waters... Fats Waller...... good old days.... yeah great posting Kappy thanks for sharing with us ..... Ed... from Sierra Vista AZ
That house is gorgeous just the way it stands. I have seen worse houses restored. This one has stone walls that doesn't rot. I know roof and floors are bad but it could be done. That side room off of the kitchen is called a summer kitchen. They would say time have a stove out there so the heat doesn't come into the house. As a kid we had on on our house and was at least 10 degrees cooler than the house. Ours had cement floor which probably helped with cooling. Usually on side of house out of direct sunlight so it doesn't heat up as much. Love your filming, traveling slowly over items and getting all of the small details of the house. I love the electrical switches, doorknobs and hinges. I also loved the wide planked floors upstairs. The barn is awesome. In older barns they have the animals facing inwards. Really cool.
Thank you for caring enough to make these homestead videos to document these wonderful places you find. This home is up there in the top ten of my most favorites.
Thank you always for your incredible explores. A newer house would never last in that condition. It would have caved in 20 years ago. You truly are a professional when it comes to your camera work and explores. That would have been a absolutely beautiful property back in the day
Thanks Kappy for sharing with me this video about the beautiful Abandoned Mansion* Antiques inside w/ spring house & huge barn Kappy that was some house and the barn was also really big too my friend thanks for sharing it with me and i can't wait to see your next video my friend and God Bless and thanks again.
Great find 👍 thanks for looking into the steam trunk 👌 always be safe on your explores...we need more of your AWESOME content!!!😀💚💚💯🔥
Like the quiet, with birds, and minor talking, easy voice, most enjoyable. Thanks new to your vids, great for quarantine educational, places I'll never get to, I loved to do this when I was younger, to old now, thanks Pamela
This house has some beautiful woodwork and hardware. It is seriously creepy. I believe you hit the nail on the head when you said 1700's. It looks like it hasn't been lived in for at least 50 years and dude get ya' some good work boots. I wouldn't want you to get hurt. Thanks for bringing us a great one.
Wow! What a beauty! Any chance you may be able to find and post some pictures from the old girl's hay day? She's a gorgeous old mansion and there are no remaining family members around to save her?!
Puca yes , it would be neat to see the original state of this mansion. Lots of digging around the prothonotary to find it . I’m sure it’s worth it .
Fabulous video. Beautiful home so sad to see. It go down hill. Thank you for sharing your great videos
Thanks! Really enjoyed! In barn, looks like the big scale my daddy has in the barn for feed bags, and my husband has one in shop for seed bags. Would have a large platform at bottom to sit the bags. Thank you! So glad you zoomed in on things for detail. Wish you would try to tell us titles of books. Books tell a lot about former inhabitants. Great job!
As an antique book collector, I’d love to see what those books are😊. They could be very valuable. Too bad they are left to rot when they could be saved and appreciated.
They look like they’re from a set of Encyclopedia Americana. I still have one from my family’s set from the 1950’s, they were a luxury item and prized possession.
I get so excited when I see a notification of a new video from you Kappy! Love your videos
I have the identical Sears sewing machine. My mom gave it to me for high school graduation in 1980. The second room might have been the dining room. I love that old bracket at 8:15. I'm guessing it was for standing a candle or lantern on? The shaped windows were also beautiful and that massive barn was very impressive. Thanks for the tour!
Slayerjane61 I saw that bracket on the wall too. It was awesome. I have a sewing machine similar to that one but mine is from Montgomery Ward. A neighbor gave it to me and I still use it.
Yes Kappy you are the best. Because you don't go so fast that it makes us dizzy headed. You go in with respect. Don't make alot of noise. Love you the best of all.❤️
Why would they destroy that historic home ??? I would totally renovate it .
The damage is too severe to be worth it, unfortunately. You would be better off just rebuilding the whole thing.
@@machinegurlll not sure which state this house is located. By vloggers voice midwest somewhere I think. Despite interior or exterior damage being built in 1700's is a historic bldg. In CA no one would be allowed to tear down. In the 60's many of our historical treasures were torn down with attitudes like yours. In the 80's laws were passed to preserve our history.
@@annskaggs4475 This is beyond saving. To bad. There may have been a time to save it but now every piece of lumber in the structure is rotten, from inside the walls ceiling to the floors and obviously roof. Not sure how it could be saved now even if there was a real desire by someone, even someone with the funds could even save it. Can't just sheetrock and plaster over and hide the rot.
Nicole Megyeri too far gone - should have been done years ago
cks Not to mention all that MOLD
They would have called the sink in its little nook a "stationary washstand".
The staircase is a simple federal design (late 1700s to early 1800s) and the mantel looks kinda federal too, along with the rounded arches, but the fireplace brickwork appears to be newer. There's obviously been some remodeling at some point.
Amazing old beauty. I would love to have the $ to restore something like that. So many bedrooms. Love the hardware, arched windows & deep windowsills. They had a great business at one time, with that huge barn. Really makes you wonder...loved this!! Thank you, Kappy.
This beautiful home should be saved not torn down! Very beautiful n very unique layout. I love the steamer trunks! I have one with stickers on it from all over the world. At least you didn't come face to face with a vulture this time. The barn was really cool n large. Maybe raised horses in barn and carrier pigeons in the attic? Who knows. Stay safe in Florida Kappy. We need you to keep putting out this amazing videos! Great video as always. God bless.
Love that big old barn. It had what appears to be milking stalls for cows and the larger stalls for the horses. Awesome!
pretty house and those plants by the trunk look like they are trying to escape to the outside. Poor plants. those trunks look so pretty. to bad they were not given away to someone to use. such beauty in the ruin. Not a bad place for a sink i guess. wow the wagon wheel what a great find. love the arched windows. oh my that barn is huge. Beautiful grounds at this place. loved it. thank you for taking me along. lonG lean on God
There's a part of the homestead missing. You can see the outline of a roofline on the side of the barn, 18.41, where you were admiring the massive stone wall. Likely was an open covered yard between the barn and the building with the side stairs.
Looks like much of the stonework is sound. It might be possible to restore by gutting and rebuilding the interior, preserving the stone walls.
Neat explore. I’d love to see a plan of that house. Growing up in a house that had been added onto two or three times I can appreciate weird configurations of rooms. The modern light switch on the third floor was interesting. The barn was prob my favorite. My husband says it looks like a scale also. Stay safe in Hilton Head. Thanks for sharing.
As one of your other views stated; the item in the barn that you were asking about is a barn scales. I still have one in my barn that we used when we were farming. We used it to weigh bales of tobacco as well as burlap bags of various types of grain.
This place is amazing! Some of those stickers on the door take me back. They were sold in the 70s in packs like ball cards. They were called "Wacky Stickers".
Loved seeing the very thick walls of the house to keep inside temperature regulated. The house is too old to have initially had electric and indoor plumbing, thus why the downstairs sink was put in a funky spot-probably was a closet. The upstairs bathroom looked like an addition. The barn had such architecture! Would have been wonderful to live there. Great video
You did well to find and show us this while it is still standing. Loved all the unusual windows and quirky built in cupboards. Thanks!
You find the most interesting places still relatively undisturbed.....and a thorough (not too fast, jerky) examination of the artifacts of someone's life
KAPPY...AWESOME. ONE OF THE BEST IVE SEEN THANK YOU FOR TAKING US ALONG.HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY. LOVE FROM VA.💕😘
Wow! That place was a great place once! The barn is MASSIVE!!!!
Awesome find, we could almost imagine people living here in the 40s and 50s s thinking they had something awesome and lucky to have this treasure, but now days people want cheap with no imagination , truly sad we have become a generation with no vision ... Thanks for sharing love these videos 🙏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🤗💕
I also prefer old to new builds, the modern builds have no character and are not built to last as long
puddles pickles they do that on purpose to keep BUSINESS going . Not to mention price gouging -
I may be way off the mark but the room in the attic with the fine mesh over the large partial wall opening and lots of light? When you opened the door to that CLOSED off little room which had a small iron bed in it...it opened into a rather cheerful painted room with two beautiful little windows and a mirror. It could have been a "disappointments room". I'm sure some people know what that is. If a family had a disabled child, whether mentally or with physical infirmities, there was a "shame" attached to that and people locked up the child often in the attic. They kept them from prying eyes. The small stairs were right there near the kitchen and straight up to enter either the larger of those two upper rooms or close by. When the family could go up to care for the child, he could play or sit with them in the "play" area. It just had all the hall Mark's of a "disappointments room". (This one is much more "homey" and humane than some I've read about which were tiny closed rooms with no windows and a locked door. Terrible that!)
Gina Maria i think its more about money than lack of vision. It takes more money to restore than build new from scratch.
The unconnected room in the attic was most likely the servants quarters. If it was built in the 1700s they definitely had live in servants which usually had their own stairs, room and door which they were supposed to use. Thank you for sharing this video and showing us this amazing old structure! 😁
Cheers
Place was huge, in the last room in attic on sill of 2nd window shown was a bedpan for at least from the 1920’s , what a shame that it was wasted away, it’s at least 5/6 damage, and take a kings ransom to restore, must of been majestic in its day and working farm and im sure plenty of horses too, Great video and job
I decided to watch this from your most recent video on it. It’s crazy how much it has deteriorated in that little time between videos. It is so bad somebody couldn’t have saved this house! I really enjoyed it, I love the quirkiness! Take care
I think I can sum this video up in one word: AWESOME!!!!!
Great video! This is - hands down - the BEST old house that I’ve EVER seen! I double-dog dare you to open that can of oysters…
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Lol...i bet they are fine!
What you passed through on the other side of the stairs was the formal dining room. That little sink between the dining room and the kitchen was where one would wash their hands before dinner. Very classy. I'd pay a good amount of money for the hanging saucer light in the kitchen and that copper chandelier in the dining room!!! VERY 1950s! OMG those stickers on the door in the upstairs!! I forgot what they were called but we used to get them as bubblegum cards and stickers back in the 80s and they were so funny! Kind of gross parodies of products lmao if you had a twisted sense of humor, you collected them. I did ha ha! That was an awesome house. And I didn't even know what a spring house was until this video. I had to google "spring house". I think that thing in the horse barn was a weighing scale. I liked this video. I wished I could restore this house and live in it. Kind of creepy - great for Halloween! But kind of lovely at the same time. Nice.
**EDIT** Those funny/gross stickers were called "garbage pail kids" a twisted parody in itself of "cabbage patch kids". God I loved getting those things lol I think they went as far back as the early 70s.
My mother grew up with a spring house down at the creek on cotton farm. Kept eggs, butter that they churned and milk from the cow until they got an "ice box" in the house. 1930-40's.
Another stone house. Beautiful! That’s a gorgeous barn too.
This would’ve been some house in its day. Yes lay out a little weird but it’s still beautiful. It’s not uncommon to see back stairs, servants stairs, in these big old houses but this is the first Time I’ve seen two sets of attic stairs. A place this big, the attic may have been set up for servants originally.
Good explore!!
Very large house. Sad to see it will have to go. There are red flowers (fake or) all over the house...seems like a testament to good bye. Look at the old sink on the back porch!!!! The house has some nice windows. Something different. Upstairs may of been servants quarters. Salvageable lumber in the barn!! What a most enjoyable video. Thank you.
So pretty from the outside! I have two trunks of the camp variety, excellent for storage and seating. Someone cut out the hardware on that door! The old Flit sprayer. The bottle of Karo syrup in the wagon wheel room. The cartoon wall. My grandma's house was like that and it is still standing. So much interesting architecture. The final room might have been aviary. Obviously someone with money. Sad it isn't being preserved.
A real beauty, Kappy, but I'm sure you're right about it not lasting much longer. The minute I saw the large holes in the roof, I knew the floors and ceilings would probably be a mess. Then, when you entered and I saw that vase of very bright red (artificial) flowers I thought, "Oh, Kappy's not the first: here's been one of those nudniks who likes to pose added things here and there to "improve" the shoot. Finding single blossoms here and there, including some white ones upstairs, pretty much proves it, as they'd be dirty as that moldy globe. That old radio on the first floor---not the radio/phonograph console---took me back to my own Radio Days when I was a kid. We had one similar---ours had spooled pillars in front of the speaker cloth and sat on the floor listening to "Little Orphan Annie," "RRRRacket Busters," "The FBI in Peace and War," "Terry and the Pirates," and my favorite, since I was an airplane nut, "Blackhawk," about a band freelance fighter pilots who had adventures all over the place. (They flew the exotic-looking Grumman XF5F Skyrocket twin-engine [piston] fighter planes---of which only one was built, but it sure fired our imaginations!) At Christmastime there was "Jimby and Ellie Elephants" and "The Cinnamon Bear."
The original kitchen was very interesting. Looks like it probably had a huge fireplace, probably for cooking and for warmth. The sink in the hallway was nothing I've ever seen, but looks like it would have been original to a house of that era.
Thanks for the tour. I can't believe explorers don't fall through the floors in these old buildings.
The sink may have taken the place of a water basin especially wash hands and to cool off in summer
This is definitely one of my favorites. I would love to have that wagon wheel light that was in the room you first thought was the kitchen -- my Granny and Granddad had one hanging above their kitchen table all the time I was growing up. It brought back a lot of memories. I did think it was kind of creepy that there were random flowers laid throughout the rooms; the flowers in the vase didn't really even look dusty -- they didn't even look faded. Great video, as always! Please stay safe.
Carol Searcy is he must have added the flowers!
It looks so sturdy from the outside. New roof. Floors reinforced. Everything else is cosmetics. Already plumbed for water and electricy.
If one take takes this in several stages/phases and sees it as a long term project, I dunno 10-15 year span, and or if one form a society/foundation/trust or whatever I believe it might be possible to save/perserve. Step 1, make sure the house is watertight and unexposed for the environment, so it becomes a watertight seal. step 2, do one by one room/floor/section etc. Given how the economy in this is.
And if the stables are/where the cattle once was and being fixed to function it can be used as an gallery/exhibition for local artists, or turning it in to a pop up bar/pub if it makes sense on where it's located and ppl. Would go to the place. Sorry I just get Ideas evev if It might be unrealistic. 🤷🏼♂️
Thanks. Best Explore EVER! And you are braver than I. I never would have risked walking on those decaying floors. I am so glad that you pulled it off, and didn't get hurt. Fascinating video. Great job!
Awesome coverage on this old beauty! I could almost imagine the generations living there...and as the house aged...the updates that were made..like the light switch with buttons....and in later years the dishwasher in the kitchen. I noticed the brass “Pull down” lamp...it was circular... My parents had one of those in our house, it was built in 1954.
The device you asked about in the barn is definitely a scale. I bet it weighed grain. I agree with another comment made here...the upper most rooms most likely were for the help in the early years. It must be a coop of some sort to up there. I guess they could of been for pigeons, there is a roost there...anyway...this was super cool, thanks!
You have the knack for finding some pretty incredible places. Your videography and attention to detail is quite accomplished as well. Definitely a cool channel.
Thanks again for another good one. I do have one request. I'd love for you to show more of the hardware on the doors at eye level. It's just so interesting. I appreciate you taking us on these tours of these wonderful places.
Since heat rises maybe they used attic as bedrooms and sitting room back in the day 🤔. Great find, can imagine it's beauty back in the day 🤗
Great find Kappy, place was really huge. lots of added on bathrooms either had farm hands living there or lots of kids
Love this one, so many interesting things going on here! Wish you could have spent more time exploring the barn area inside and out. Love the stone work! As an artist I find all these textures so much fun to paint!
Just that huge rim lock on the door with the small brass knob... the complete set is worth several hundred dollars! It appeared some others may have already been removed. If I had been there I don’t believe I could have resisted the temptation!
That television set w/ remote @ 4:06 is probably the best evidence available from this video to determine when this property had last been vacant. And if it is, then all indication would point to this house having been vacant at least up until the early 90s. I think the rate of decay/damage without any maintenance up until the time this video was shot is pretty consistent with any abandoned structure that had been left alone for the same amount of time.
This one is pretty from the outside. As old as it is, I'm sure it has its tales to tell and even a few yarns to spin! So much history has passed without and within these sturdy walls.
It doesn't look too bad inside for its age, though it does appear to be a hazard to foot traffic. It almost seems as if the people just stepped out of the house. No ornate woodwork here, for the old time Quakers lived very plain lives. The radio and the stereo and sewing machine are luxuries the builders of this house could not even imagine!
If this were a more modern home, I'd say that sink was part of a jack and jill bath. Maybe it was a place for people to wash up before cooking or eating meals.
That wagon wheel is amazing! I'm not sure, but it could be from the very early 1900s. The staircase is beautiful in its simplicity. Ah, teenagers! I remember my sister collecting those stickers from my teenage years, and I graduated in 1976! They haven't gotten less funny with age.
The bathroom window is stunning. The hinges on that door are lovely, too.
That is one big house! I wonder if it was cold or if the fireplaces heated the stone walls. Whoa, what a mirror! So much for simple living! Those arched windows are so pretty.
Wow, this is a really huge mess! More of the pretty windows. They're a unique detail. Its strange that the mirrors are in the attic!
This is a charming little springhouse. Kappy, there is a natural spring in the house, cooling the interior and any food or drinkable that are placed in the channels filled with water. The shelves and pegs are for things which needed to be cool, not wet.
The task accomplished, the water was allowed to escape into a holding pond sometimes stocked with fish and generally a great place to grow watercress.
Incredible old post and beam barn! Mark Bowe would love to turn his crew loose on this one!
Great house, Kappy! I'm almost sorry to see your later video, but I'm a faithful fan, so here goes!
Every time you show a house I always picture what it looked like back then. This house is gorgeous wish I could afford to buy it and the land
At-19:15- that may have helped cur the hay, or string it into bundles, then tie and cut the string.
They probably would have had alot of horses, cows, pigs, sheep & chickens back then I would have guessed.
Beautiful old home could still be restored but would take ALOT of money. The roof/floors would have to come up & the foundation, walls repaired. Molds, bugs, vermin gotten rid of. Would take ALOT of work and effort but it sure would be worth it.
Thank you for all of your efforts to record this old beauty. Maybe some one might see this video & fall in love with it and would have the money to fix it. I hope so.
An amazing old place,so crowded..I think a lot of people used to love be there,Thanks Kappy!👍🙋🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Did you hear them? I wonder as well... these old houses have stories. More than glass and wood and nails.
Incredible place, one of the best locations so far. Definitely worthy of restoration.
Wow! Sad to see such treasures left behind to decay. My word all those steamers. The light switch (toggle) is like my grandparents had ~ love those Thank you for another wonderful explore. Appreciate your thoughtfulness during them
I love the smaller staircase and the attic stairs. Cute upstairs bathroom. Pretty windows. Looked larger from the outside. You are always careful and respectful. Ya'll make me nervous when you explore alone. Be safe.
Oh also that little space before the kitchen it has a cabinet across from it ,that is a butler's pantry
They obviously loved music. My kind of home. But alas again, why didn't someone save this home? So sad but really cool house Thank you Sweet Kappy♡
Good observation so many radios/ record players thank you for watching!
I wonder when the last time that piano was played and what song was play on it.
Kappy that place must of been gorgeous in its time,its so sad to see it in this shape.thanks for another amazing find & be safe during this hurricane :-)
What a fascinating and beautiful house! The land on which it's built is as pretty as a painting. Thanks for sharing, Kappy 🙂
Oh my goodness, 1700's! HOW is this beautiful and extraordinary house NOT on a historic register and being preserved!
What a beautiful house and surroundings! Would've loved to live there! Thanks for sharing, and I love your channel!
This is a really nice looking house. Great hardware on doors. Good money on that claw foot tub. Nice ornate light fixtures on ceiling. Nice find.
The smaller back stair cases were probably for servant quarters, a lower & upper bedroom. What a beautiful home this used to be.
Its kitchen you saw was probably a dining room and the secret staircase you saw when entering the kitchen was probably the servants staircase. Great video!
I would say the narrow stair well was probably for servants or Nanny. The small sink at the bottom of those was where the help could freshen up I would say
Plenty of space for several servants
Enjoyed your video tour of an elegant old house, but I love the barns! The stalls still looked sturdy after all these years.