The only oddness I thought about was building the house out of the same materials that basically caused "the night Chicago died." Also, committing his two children to an asylum kinda of makes me wonder about Lapham's own state of mind. It's ironic that his wife died in a fire after living in a house that had so many fire escapes, and probably none in the one she lived in.
The stories of the fires are BS! The Old World and the Dark Ages was the Millennial Reign of Christ. When Satan was loosed again to deceive for a short season, Revelation,20, they began burning the buildings down. And defacing them in the World's Fairs, etc. @@johnmiller8975
Everyone left behind from the Millennial Reign of Christ were put into castles and things repurposed as mental institutions! To make them forget. The Saints went to the Camp of the Saints, North, with Christ. Mount Zion. Magnetic North. Northern lights. They are planning a war against them.
This comment exactly mirrors my own thoughts -- one child died and the other two were committed to an insane asylum. Wow! Red flags abound with this story.
Oh my goodness! What a sad family story. The wood interior rooms are beautiful, as are the balconies and gingerbread on the exterior. That central room with the staircase and the angled wall boards is quite stunning.
I was shocked by the thumbnail because I recognized this house instantly. My great grandfather was a Patterson and although he didn't live in the house, he would visit it frequently. I've been in the house countless times myself, but only after the state converted it into a museum.
The asymmetrical design is so interesting. Thank you for this unusual find. The ladies parlor is my favorite. I can imagine having a book club in that space.
I want to join that book club! I've always loved the beautiful libraries in Victorian mansions. Today we have almost instant access to just about every book ever written online, which is wonderful, but there's nothing quite like reading from books that were owned and loved by people more than 100 years ago. Now that we have e-books, I'm able to buy these beautiful old tomes for pennies sometimes, or people just give them to me. Many Victorian books have gorgeous chrome lithograph color plates, sadly people now cut those out and frame them, which destroys the beauty of the books. I have a set of books from 1770s that lists every known location on Earth. As I read them, I think of how George Washington and Ben Franklin may have owned these same volumes! I found this pair of books in the trash!! I really get a sense of how young our nation is when I realize all the locations and cities that didn't exist yet back when these books were printed. There's no "Texas" or "California" for example, just Spanish missions with vague descriptions.
I love natural light so my favorite thing about this house are the large windows that extend to the floor. I'd never heard of this house before, thanks for a very interesting tour!👍
This house is on Dawson Street. It's full of beautiful old homes, Victorian and Greek Revival. I grew up a few blocks away. In high school, we studied Thomasville history in the gifted history class. Thomasville has an interesting history. My grandfather managed Greenwood Plantation so my mom grew up there. She met Eisenhower, Fred Astaire, Jackie Kennedy. I did think this house was a National Historic Site.
It's written in the Bible, don't know who poirot is but he is plagiarizing the written word. There's also no such thing as luck but interesting is that it's written that there IS such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time ❤
Beautiful fanciful house, such a sad story of its creation though. I agree with those that believe the original owner suffered from PTSD due to his having lived through the Great Chicago Fire. Thank you for this very interesting family's house's story.
So cool with the stairs over the fireplace and a lot of exciting contrast in the woodwork. Yet, the other rooms seem tranquil and restful. The designer was a true artist. Thank you for sharing.
I live in Thomasville . This house is gorgeous, as are all of our historical homes and businesses in Thomasville. We even have an oak tree that has been here since the Revolutionary War. Imagine what that thing has seen!
I would _love_ to visit your town! I adore these beautiful old houses. Georgia is a beautiful state from what I've seen in movies and photos, and I love the charming Southern Georgia dialect. I grew up in E. Texas and have that peculiar drawl, but I think Georgians have the best Southern accents of all. No one can give an insult as elegantly and sweetly as the genteel Georgians! "Bless Your Heart!"😂🤣💖
A kerosene lamp fire… sounds like something the guy obsessed with fire would say/do. He was mad she left and torched her new place. “See how she lives her new place with no fire escapes now, she never should have left me or my house!”
Seriously? Dude was so affected by the Chicago fire that he commissions a house with 24 fire escapes but builds it out of wood? I would have been looking into poured concrete, tamped Earth, or steel construction.
Tamped earth maybe… I don’t think that concrete mixing trucks or much steel was available to purchase in Thomasville back in 1885. Plenty of pine trees and quick fire exits were affordable…
@@judsonclayto7813 Concrete houses were just around the corner, with Edison pushing them in the early 1900s, but it would have been tough to pull off in Georgia in 1885. There are all kinds of ways to fireproof a wooden house, from brick or stucco siding, to more plaster in the interior, to fireproof insulation in the balloon-frame walls. But it seems he was more concerned with escaping, which is also a priority. One cheap way to make any window a fire escape is to just keep a chain ladder in each bedroom, but more people don't want to think about such things.
@@judsonclayto7813this is true. Steel is more of a 1900s building material. It may have existed, but it wasn't common for houses. Brick on the other hand...
@@NoCoffeeForYou 🎶"It's like buuiilding a fire-safe house! But then buuurning to death in a different place!"🎶 Thanks! Now I'm going to have that song in my head all day!😆
I think its amazing! The house and the story. He did have a strong fear of fire, and wanted a way put, even if he had to break something by jumping from high places!!😮
This is one of the most BEAUTIFUL homes I've ever seen! GEORGEOUS! I LOVE the odd-shaped rooms...I LOVE all the windows and doors... It's just REGAL! What a shame they didn't have descendants to enjoy this inheritance. WHY did they have their children committed to an insane assylum? And how old were they? And whatever became of them? What a heart-breaking ending. He may have been better-off dying in the fire!
I grew up near Thomasville and have toured the house a few times. The small window on the front of the house on the third floor is said to cast a weird shape on the floor at a certain time or two in the year at night. Something occult about that and somehow it tied into the rooms being 6 sided or not rectangular. Thomasville has a rich history of old homes and the ‘Big Oak’ that are all a must see when in T’Ville.
What a beautiful house! I love every room, but especially the dining room. But such a sad family story. It’s impossible to imagine the state of mind the couple was in. That they committed their two children to an insane asylum is horrific. And that she died trapped in a fire is too bazaar!
I always (well since I heard of it) wanted to see this house. It's kind of the ultimate fun house at the state fair. Do they still have county and state fairs? Great design. Thanks for the tour, Ken.
Thomasville still has a fair in the fall. It's a traveling carnival but all the local competitions are there as well. Georgia has a state fair in Perry in October. It's a huge disappointment.
Been though Thomasville on a number of occasions. Sadly, I was not aware of this house. Otherwise, I would have taken the tour. There really are some architectural gems in the deep south.
the irony of dying in a house fire after living in a home like this!! the windows are stunning. i love th floor to ceiling bay windows! they let in so much light
Wow! What a tale. And what an incredible house! I love that it’s asymmetrical. Normally that would drive me a bit mad but as I have gotten older I appreciate things that aren’t “perfect” way more than the symmetric perfectly matched things of the world.
Homeless is not a bad word! Why is everyone using unhoused? I have been homeless, and there is no shame in it. What is shameful is allowing drug addiction and mentally ill to possess the streets.
What a tragic story. I hope the two surviving children got some peace as adults. Some of the rooms weren’t too bad but that dining would have given me constant indigestion.
I lived with my grandmother in Georgia for years. One day she took us to a weird old house, I'm not sure whether it was in Georgia or the panhandle of Florida. It was fascinating. There was a room upstairs, that at certain times of the year, when the sun shone in the front window the ginger read outside would cast shadows and shapes of light on the floor in the shape of moons and stars. I don't remember any fire escapes. And it was in Thomasville. Ah, so the big windows are considered fire escapes. Didn't know that while looking at the house. They also didn't tell us about his wife or the kids.
I do agree that a house looks like like the Winchester mystery House but it also looks like the homes you saw on fantasy Island they look similar . This house is beautiful . I think the owner was right on least having fire escapes . Imagine a high-rise on fire today's buildings probably don't have that many fire escapes . Safety first .
While things are offset and odd the way they did it, the color schemes softened the harshness of it all. And the abundance of windows helped also..all the natural light with the trees around or near house helped. I actually like it. Now I wonder about my home and other places I’ve rented with the bottom of the windows near the floor if they were actually for easier escape? I was always afraid my kids crashing into them and falling. (However my middle child slammed her head and hand into a bedroom window that was 4’ from the floor. How ironic was that?)
What I liked was the furnishings of the bedroom’s but many of the rooms were oddly shaped . Otherwise this house was colourful in yellow paint making it cheery and bright in a good way . Certainly many windows also .
Balloon frame construction is what allowed Victorians to be so ornate, as they were (compared to post and beam) so cheap to build. They are not particularly susceptible to fire but one aspect of early versions did allow fire to spread. Those houses were built walls first and floors inserted into the vertical frame. Flames could travel between floors. A later modification had floors built first, walls raised next, then capped off by the next floor. This not only sped up construction but prevented flames from burning up the walls from floor to floor.
Considering he has lofty ambitions with his wife's money makes you realize he got what he deserved. Sad for his wife and kids. What a horrible person. The house is so interesting it would be great to tour.
Missing front pillars, too many false fronts, off-center fireplace, etc, even I noticed it! It sounds like she should've stayed living there, with all those ways to escape! 🤦🏻♀️
3:06 So, despite his fear of fires, he built a nearly all wood balloon-frame house with a 2 story wood-finished foyer, practically a bonfire waiting to happen, then tried to make up for it with a fire escape in every room, but in spite of all that, his wife moved out and died in a fire. That is a strange house with a strange story. I wonder what happened to the 2 kids in the asylum.
What could justify children of the very rich\h being sent to an asylum? Could they not Buy personal care at the Huge home? The parents should have gone to the asylum. . The kids suffered the punishment for the parents imbalance. He wrecked a fortune in 10 years. ‼️. Then the wife died of his biggest fear after she left him. 🤦🏻♀️. Anything sus here ❓🤔
Back then if a child had a developmental disorder it was thought that the best thing you could do was to institutionalize them. According to the professionals, they could have 24 hour and be surrounded by people with a similar condition. The parents trusted what the doctors told them. This happened in my family.
@@vivaldi1948 , bs, this route was a social solution for the rich. (They likely said it was a boarding school. ) It Happened that way cuz they chose &paid for that solution. Nevertheless, they unloved their kids by sending them off ….pretty much & no matter What the issue. It didn’t really cost em, they used ancestral $. They could afford the social MASK at their descendants expense. No 🩷 in it. This was a “solution” for. …Any medical conditions. ❓. A solution that cured nothing and encapsulates the afflicted into a rigid foreign environment while being shunned by those that were Supposed to love them. As long as those “asylums” kept the patient alive, the $ kept coming.
@@vivaldi1948 Mine too, though I didn't learn about it until many years later. I took my little boy to visit my favorite kinfolks in 1997, they lived on the farm my great-grandparents owned since 1870. He (Elton) was my great-grandfather's grandson, but during that trip I learned the rest of the story from him about his real parents. He was raised as the child of one of the daughters (12 children!) but the truth was his real mother was the oldest daughter, Clara, who never married. She was 40 when he was born, and very withdrawn. It sounds as if she may have been autistic. She never married and never left that farm, but she abdicated her role as mother to Elton because of pressure from her family. Elton told me that his real father had been committed to an insane asylum, where he died from severe abuse. Elton did get to meet him prior to that, and he told me his father was a good man who was not mentally ill. Sounds like he may have been "simple", as they called people of lower IQ back then. He loved his daddy and he cried as he told me what happened to him more than 50 years ago. I wish I knew more of the story, but it died with Elton back in 2002. Actually, Elton's son is a history professor and author, so I hope he writes his father's story before he goes. He's probably the only one who knows the truth.
The only oddness I thought about was building the house out of the same materials that basically caused "the night Chicago died." Also, committing his two children to an asylum kinda of makes me wonder about Lapham's own state of mind. It's ironic that his wife died in a fire after living in a house that had so many fire escapes, and probably none in the one she lived in.
Read the Yellow wallpaper
The stories of the fires are BS! The Old World and the Dark Ages was the Millennial Reign of Christ. When Satan was loosed again to deceive for a short season, Revelation,20, they began burning the buildings down. And defacing them in the World's Fairs, etc. @@johnmiller8975
Everyone left behind from the Millennial Reign of Christ were put into castles and things repurposed as mental institutions! To make them forget.
The Saints went to the Camp of the Saints, North, with Christ. Mount Zion. Magnetic North. Northern lights. They are planning a war against them.
This comment exactly mirrors my own thoughts -- one child died and the other two were committed to an insane asylum. Wow! Red flags abound with this story.
Committed the children??!! How evil of them! The mother agreed to this!! How horrific!! God, was too kind!
He took the mother in a fire. 😮
Oh my goodness! What a sad family story. The wood interior rooms are beautiful, as are the balconies and gingerbread on the exterior. That central room with the staircase and the angled wall boards is quite stunning.
I was shocked by the thumbnail because I recognized this house instantly. My great grandfather was a Patterson and although he didn't live in the house, he would visit it frequently. I've been in the house countless times myself, but only after the state converted it into a museum.
The asymmetrical design is so interesting. Thank you for this unusual find. The ladies parlor is my favorite. I can imagine having a book club in that space.
Doesn’t almost seem like the wood patterns mimic fire flames?
I want to join that book club! I've always loved the beautiful libraries in Victorian mansions.
Today we have almost instant access to just about every book ever written online, which is wonderful, but there's nothing quite like reading from books that were owned and loved by people more than 100 years ago.
Now that we have e-books, I'm able to buy these beautiful old tomes for pennies sometimes, or people just give them to me. Many Victorian books have gorgeous chrome lithograph color plates, sadly people now cut those out and frame them, which destroys the beauty of the books.
I have a set of books from 1770s that lists every known location on Earth. As I read them, I think of how George Washington and Ben Franklin may have owned these same volumes! I found this pair of books in the trash!!
I really get a sense of how young our nation is when I realize all the locations and cities that didn't exist yet back when these books were printed. There's no "Texas" or "California" for example, just Spanish missions with vague descriptions.
I love natural light so my favorite thing about this house are the large windows that extend to the floor. I'd never heard of this house before, thanks for a very interesting tour!👍
This house is on Dawson Street. It's full of beautiful old homes, Victorian and Greek Revival. I grew up a few blocks away. In high school, we studied Thomasville history in the gifted history class. Thomasville has an interesting history. My grandfather managed Greenwood Plantation so my mom grew up there. She met Eisenhower, Fred Astaire, Jackie Kennedy.
I did think this house was a National Historic Site.
Wow, such a sad story but such an interesting house!
I love the quirkiness and I love the windows. Beautiful!!
It's a strange coincidence that she died in a fire in her new house. According to Poirot there are no coincidences
A lot of women died, due to their skirt catching on fire. You're right, it's a conspiracy.
When you fear something so bad, it consumes your mind, and the universe gives you what you think about. It's called the law of attraction.
It's written in the Bible, don't know who poirot is but he is plagiarizing the written word. There's also no such thing as luck but interesting is that it's written that there IS such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time ❤
He murdered his wife, stole the fortune and conveniently had the children locked away forever in an asylum...
@kathleensullivan4547 Poirot is a fictional detective, created by the writer Agatha Christie.
I love this house. Always been a fan of asymmetry. It was so sad that his wife ended up dying in a fire. That must have haunted him.
I wonder if anyone thought it suspicious.
Or he did it. He had his kids committed to an asylum.
I need a season of American Horror Story filmed here. Lol
I immediately thought of the guy that torched the murder house in season one. I wonder if that was based on this guy since he torched her new house.
Yes' the witches ❤
What an incredibly odd manifest story! Wow! Very, very sad!
I think you mean m*rder story lol
Beautiful fanciful house, such a sad story of its creation though. I agree with those that believe the original owner suffered from PTSD due to his having lived through the Great Chicago Fire. Thank you for this very interesting family's house's story.
So cool with the stairs over the fireplace and a lot of exciting contrast in the woodwork. Yet, the other rooms seem tranquil and restful. The designer was a true artist. Thank you for sharing.
I was hoping that this video would be about the Ace of Clubs house in Texarkana. Don't worry, you didn't disappoint me. This house was interesting too
Very interesting! Thank you!
Beautiful wonderful quirky creative Victorian house. Absolutely fabulous mansion
Love it. All the windows give it a light and airy feeling.
I like the house and the ability to escape.
I live in Thomasville . This house is gorgeous, as are all of our historical homes and businesses in Thomasville. We even have an oak tree that has been here since the Revolutionary War. Imagine what that thing has seen!
I would _love_ to visit your town! I adore these beautiful old houses. Georgia is a beautiful state from what I've seen in movies and photos, and I love the charming Southern Georgia dialect.
I grew up in E. Texas and have that peculiar drawl, but I think Georgians have the best Southern accents of all.
No one can give an insult as elegantly and sweetly as the genteel Georgians!
"Bless Your Heart!"😂🤣💖
I absolutely love houses like this!
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A kerosene lamp fire… sounds like something the guy obsessed with fire would say/do. He was mad she left and torched her new place. “See how she lives her new place with no fire escapes now, she never should have left me or my house!”
I thought the same. There are no coincidences.
And before that, HE traveled on HER $$$$ while she stayed home pregnant with their 2nd baby. The jerk!
I thought the same thing also. Very weird that a man obsessed with dying in a fire, has a wife who died in a fire AFTER leaving him.
Fire is one reason for brick homes. We feel safer having one.
Seriously? Dude was so affected by the Chicago fire that he commissions a house with 24 fire escapes but builds it out of wood? I would have been looking into poured concrete, tamped Earth, or steel construction.
Tamped earth maybe… I don’t think that concrete mixing trucks or much steel was available to purchase in Thomasville back in 1885. Plenty of pine trees and quick fire exits were affordable…
Better to have used rock and brick
@@judsonclayto7813 Concrete houses were just around the corner, with Edison pushing them in the early 1900s, but it would have been tough to pull off in Georgia in 1885. There are all kinds of ways to fireproof a wooden house, from brick or stucco siding, to more plaster in the interior, to fireproof insulation in the balloon-frame walls. But it seems he was more concerned with escaping, which is also a priority. One cheap way to make any window a fire escape is to just keep a chain ladder in each bedroom, but more people don't want to think about such things.
@@judsonclayto7813this is true. Steel is more of a 1900s building material. It may have existed, but it wasn't common for houses. Brick on the other hand...
@@pcno2832 At 75 there's no way I could manage one of those; they are difficult enough when young. Better than nothing, I suppose.
There was a lot of beautiful craftsmanship in this house! BEAUTIFUL....
So cool, Ken! Never heard of this house!
Gorgeous house! I would like to have seen the kitchen, though!
Wait... so his ex-wife left the fire-safe house only to die in a fire? That's Alanis Morriset level ironic.
😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤ whole new verse ….. that song lives as they say rent free in my head and my daughter ❤
@@NoCoffeeForYou 🎶"It's like buuiilding a fire-safe house! But then buuurning to death in a different place!"🎶
Thanks! Now I'm going to have that song in my head all day!😆
I live in Albany, Georgia. We travel to Thomasville all the time. It's gorgeous there.
I love the overall look and design of the house despite the quirkiness of all the fire escapes and asymmetrical design 🥰🥰🥰
What a beautiful house. I think the design was ingeneous.
Sad story but love the house
Thank you for showing us this house and its story.
If I had money I would buy this in a heartbeat!! It is absolutely gorgeous!!
I think its amazing! The house and the story. He did have a strong fear of fire, and wanted a way put, even if he had to break something by jumping from high places!!😮
Beautifully crafted and a deliciously capricious design.
When i was a small child I heard a realtor describe that exterior fussy trim as cheesecake. I was a teenager before I realized she meant gingerbread.
lol!
Cheesecake? 😄 You should have asked Ken.
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This is one of the most BEAUTIFUL homes I've ever seen!
GEORGEOUS! I LOVE the odd-shaped rooms...I LOVE all the windows and doors...
It's just REGAL!
What a shame they didn't have descendants to enjoy this inheritance.
WHY did they have their children committed to an insane assylum? And how old were they?
And whatever became of them?
What a heart-breaking ending. He may have been better-off dying in the fire!
I love it when rooms have floor to ceiling windows and the built out area in the rooms.❤❤❤❤❤
Fascinating. I'll have to visit it sometime, looks neat.
I grew up near Thomasville and have toured the house a few times. The small window on the front of the house on the third floor is said to cast a weird shape on the floor at a certain time or two in the year at night. Something occult about that and somehow it tied into the rooms being 6 sided or not rectangular.
Thomasville has a rich history of old homes and the ‘Big Oak’ that are all a must see when in T’Ville.
As someone who grew up in Thomasville, we used to tour it for school trips. Very neat place.
What a beautiful house! I love every room, but especially the dining room. But such a sad family story. It’s impossible to imagine the state of mind the couple was in. That they committed their two children to an insane asylum is horrific. And that she died trapped in a fire is too bazaar!
I always (well since I heard of it) wanted to see this house. It's kind of the ultimate fun house at the state fair. Do they still have county and state fairs?
Great design. Thanks for the tour, Ken.
Thomasville still has a fair in the fall. It's a traveling carnival but all the local competitions are there as well. Georgia has a state fair in Perry in October. It's a huge disappointment.
Been though Thomasville on a number of occasions. Sadly, I was not aware of this house. Otherwise, I would have taken the tour. There really are some architectural gems in the deep south.
A lot of unfortunate unhappiness in just a decade - the children being committed, the wife dying during a fire. And she lost her fortune.
What a mess
I’m pretty sure hubs lost it.
the irony of dying in a house fire after living in a home like this!! the windows are stunning. i love th floor to ceiling bay windows! they let in so much light
Wow! What a tale. And what an incredible house! I love that it’s asymmetrical. Normally that would drive me a bit mad but as I have gotten older I appreciate things that aren’t “perfect” way more than the symmetric perfectly matched things of the world.
Homeless is not a bad word! Why is everyone using unhoused? I have been homeless, and there is no shame in it. What is shameful is allowing drug addiction and mentally ill to possess the streets.
It's beautiful, i think its wonder. I like the fretwork decoration outside
It's very interesting. A little overkill, but I think it would be good to have ways to escape in a fire.
Definitely worth visiting if you’re nearby…
I live in Thomasville and have toured this house many times. Not only is it open for tours, but you can now spend the night there!
I was going to say that it would make a great Bed & Breakfast
Beautiful. So much light because of all those windows and doors. Not like the houses built in the same period that are dark and “closed in.”
It’s interesting and the history behind it is very understandable.
What a tragic story. I hope the two surviving children got some peace as adults.
Some of the rooms weren’t too bad but that dining would have given me constant indigestion.
Interesting place!
Beautiful wood work. Loved round rooms, especially guest room. Guy wanted escape hatch, huh?
What a amazing house how proud would you be to build it.This is by far my favorite house. 😊
The house itself looks beautiful and unique. The family's story is tragic. I feel particularly sorry for the children.
Loved the stained glass & wood floors.
Fascinating! The rainbow-hued windows are so cheerful!
I have seen this house. I toured it with some friends in the late 90s.
Love it!
What a sad story about the family😔 But loved the house and all those tall windows!
While the Lapham-Patterson House is definitly odd, it's still nowhere near as bizarre as the Winchester Mystery House.
I think it’s a gorgeous house. Love it 💯💯💯💯💯💯🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I lived with my grandmother in Georgia for years. One day she took us to a weird old house, I'm not sure whether it was in Georgia or the panhandle of Florida. It was fascinating. There was a room upstairs, that at certain times of the year, when the sun shone in the front window the ginger read outside would cast shadows and shapes of light on the floor in the shape of moons and stars. I don't remember any fire escapes. And it was in Thomasville.
Ah, so the big windows are considered fire escapes. Didn't know that while looking at the house. They also didn't tell us about his wife or the kids.
I love the diamond shaped window. ❤
I love it! !!!
Amazing how history can affect the architecture!
Its absolutely beautiful house
It is worth the trip to see it
My dream house
I never heard of it but our primary residence is 20 miles south of Thomasville, GA, so I’ll have to go find it. Thanks.
The amount and overuse of voice-fry is horrifying.
I do agree that a house looks like like the Winchester mystery House but it also looks like the homes you saw on fantasy Island they look similar . This house is beautiful . I think the owner was right on least having fire escapes . Imagine a high-rise on fire today's buildings probably don't have that many fire escapes . Safety first .
Me and my old lady saw this house in early March of this year, my brother and his old lady live on cassidy rd close to US hwy 84
While things are offset and odd the way they did it, the color schemes softened the harshness of it all. And the abundance of windows helped also..all the natural light with the trees around or near house helped. I actually like it. Now I wonder about my home and other places I’ve rented with the bottom of the windows near the floor if they were actually for easier escape? I was always afraid my kids crashing into them and falling. (However my middle child slammed her head and hand into a bedroom window that was 4’ from the floor. How ironic was that?)
What I liked was the furnishings of the bedroom’s but many of the rooms were oddly shaped . Otherwise this house was colourful in yellow paint making it cheery and bright in a good way . Certainly many windows also .
This is an absolutely fantastic house however, such a sad story that lead to its creation
Balloon frame construction is what allowed Victorians to be so ornate, as they were (compared to post and beam) so cheap to build. They are not particularly susceptible to fire but one aspect of early versions did allow fire to spread. Those houses were built walls first and floors inserted into the vertical frame. Flames could travel between floors.
A later modification had floors built first, walls raised next, then capped off by the next floor. This not only sped up construction but prevented flames from burning up the walls from floor to floor.
The strangest house for me is the Wichester house
Love that house. So unique
Considering he has lofty ambitions with his wife's money makes you realize he got what he deserved. Sad for his wife and kids. What a horrible person. The house is so interesting it would be great to tour.
If wood wasn’t used in that Era, what else was there?
Thomasville, GA is 30 min from my home. I’m going for a tour!
The asymmetrical interior makes it strangely mid-century modern. Can’t explain it.
Saw several items in bad disrepair. They need to get things fixed.
I think it's beautiful 😊 You just need to appreciate the unusual.
Missing front pillars, too many false fronts, off-center fireplace, etc, even I noticed it!
It sounds like she should've stayed living there, with all those ways to escape! 🤦🏻♀️
3:06 So, despite his fear of fires, he built a nearly all wood balloon-frame house with a 2 story wood-finished foyer, practically a bonfire waiting to happen, then tried to make up for it with a fire escape in every room, but in spite of all that, his wife moved out and died in a fire. That is a strange house with a strange story. I wonder what happened to the 2 kids in the asylum.
Where is the chimney for the fireplace under the stair landing? How does it vent the smoke out?
I’d have a problem living there with everything uncentered, inches off, windows spaced wrong. It would drive me insane.
longer videos pls
What could justify children of the very rich\h being sent to an asylum? Could they not Buy personal care at the Huge home? The parents should have gone to the asylum. . The kids suffered the punishment for the parents imbalance. He wrecked a fortune in 10 years. ‼️. Then the wife died of his biggest fear after she left him. 🤦🏻♀️. Anything sus here ❓🤔
I agree. Sounds like a great thriller movie premise though.
Back then if a child had a developmental disorder it was thought that the best thing you could do was to institutionalize them. According to the professionals, they could have 24 hour and be surrounded by people with a similar condition. The parents trusted what the doctors told them. This happened in my family.
@@vivaldi1948 , bs, this route was a social solution for the rich. (They likely said it was a boarding school. )
It Happened that way cuz they chose &paid for that solution. Nevertheless, they unloved their kids by sending them off ….pretty much & no matter What the issue. It didn’t really cost em, they used ancestral $. They could afford the social MASK at their descendants expense. No 🩷 in it. This was a “solution” for. …Any medical conditions. ❓. A solution that cured nothing and encapsulates the afflicted into a rigid foreign environment while being shunned by those that were Supposed to love them. As long as those “asylums” kept the patient alive, the $ kept coming.
@@deinos9661 EXACTLY! There has to be a movie script out there based on this sad story!
@@vivaldi1948 Mine too, though I didn't learn about it until many years later. I took my little boy to visit my favorite kinfolks in 1997, they lived on the farm my great-grandparents owned since 1870. He (Elton) was my great-grandfather's grandson, but during that trip I learned the rest of the story from him about his real parents.
He was raised as the child of one of the daughters (12 children!) but the truth was his real mother was the oldest daughter, Clara, who never married. She was 40 when he was born, and very withdrawn. It sounds as if she may have been autistic. She never married and never left that farm, but she abdicated her role as mother to Elton because of pressure from her family.
Elton told me that his real father had been committed to an insane asylum, where he died from severe abuse. Elton did get to meet him prior to that, and he told me his father was a good man who was not mentally ill. Sounds like he may have been "simple", as they called people of lower IQ back then. He loved his daddy and he cried as he told me what happened to him more than 50 years ago. I wish I knew more of the story, but it died with Elton back in 2002.
Actually, Elton's son is a history professor and author, so I hope he writes his father's story before he goes. He's probably the only one who knows the truth.
This house is,gorgeous
That house made me feel very uncomfortable. Everything about it breathes misery. I think that family was very unhappy.
The whole house was weird. Afraid of fire yet Soo much wood on it and in it.
Love it
I would love that odd house !!! ❤
What a story. You have to wonder if the children were mad or their father was crazy? Back then a man had more power to get a family member committed.