Abandoned House on the Hill - Louisville KY

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  • Checked out an abandoned house on the hill across from Dixie Hwy in southwest Louisville.
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  • @Steviemarie502
    @Steviemarie502 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I've lived in Louisville my whole life and always wondered about this place!!

  • @gr8hnd10
    @gr8hnd10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow - this gave me chills!! I was perusing random videos on TH-cam. I saw yours and was intrigued. I started watching and heard you describe what sounded like an area I’m familiar with. Then I recognized where the track crossing was and it felt very familiar. Then I saw buildings that I knew I’d been in long ago, when my maternal grandparents rented an apartment from their physician, Dr. Hicks. THEN I saw another comment about Dr. Hicks renting out his property. I’m pretty dumbfounded that I happened upon this randomly. I always looked at Waverly Hills and the first sign of the railroad tracks with abject fear if we were going for another reason and not to visit the grandparents renting from him. It meant we were getting close to Dr. Hicks’ office. He delivered both my brother and me, and was my family’s doctor until I was 6 or 7. (I was born in 1951 in case he had a father or sons who became doctors.) But he was a scary fellow, not fond of children, and always ready with an injection of the miracle drug (unless overused), penicillin. Thank you for the video (I think😊)

    • @louisvilleurbanexplorer7176
      @louisvilleurbanexplorer7176  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Gayle, I'm glad you liked the video! Thanks for the insight on what it was like there and about Dr. Hicks. I really wish this place could be saved. It's really a beautiful old property, but unfortunately it may already be too far gone. Let's hope someone with deep enough pockets buys it and gives it a new life.

    • @erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803
      @erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gayle Mayberry wow!

  • @donnaharman3819
    @donnaharman3819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I live right by this place. My best friend lived here in about 1993 or so ill have to contact her to refresh my memory. I've been here many nights and never experienced any hauntings. She said she did. The house was set up in 3 different apts by then the upstairs was really cool the bedroom went out onto a beautiful balcony.

  • @alprunty
    @alprunty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Found a little info on the property… It’s owned by a trust under John & Anna Hicks that also appears to own several properties in the West End. The parcel around the house is about 1.5 acres, but the larger grounds have been subdivided. The house appears to date from the early 1930s based off of deeds for the property (it looks about that age, too), but I couldn’t find any exact references to the house. It may have belonged originally to Mary & Marvin Cunningham, but again, unsure. The area sure would have looked different back in the 1930s, though.

    • @brandonhopewell1988
      @brandonhopewell1988 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Allen Prunty I've heard it was a doctor's that worked at Waverly hills which is right up the hill from there

    • @InSpidersITrust
      @InSpidersITrust 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am thinking Waverly Hills Sanatorium as well. Interesting. Wonder why the crane was abandoned.

    • @erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803
      @erinbricker-urbanhistorian5803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Allen Prunty 🙂👍

    • @boudicacelticwarrior1481
      @boudicacelticwarrior1481 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is this house in Shively at the corner of Dixie and ??

    • @deadletterman
      @deadletterman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Boudica Celtic warrior it’s on Dixie between Pages and Stonestreet. It’s across from the Park Place shopping center.

  • @debscreepy
    @debscreepy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love the natural decay with the pealing paint.
    I'm traveling around the USA in my 25 foot class A Winnebago Warrior motorhome with my little dog Tinkerbell making videos

    • @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238
      @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's awesome as hell I gotta say...wish I could join u on the road,it would definitely take my mind off my daughter death...I feel lost without her.you should come to Louisville KY and we can kick it and all...only if u down

    • @carolynrog3rogers339
      @carolynrog3rogers339 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 I'm so sorry turn to jesus he will lighten your burden .

  • @toni_thelion5229
    @toni_thelion5229 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you 💙 back during WWII this home was used for a stopping point for soldiers bound for home, a train depot, it was once occupied by a British man and his three disabled children until one passed away not sure what year that was though I think as recent as the year 2000 and before Dr. Hicks lived there it use to be a farm that produced cattle and hay and in the 1920s and 30s it was also used as a motel even offering laundry service to the tired Travelers who wanted to get away from the north to the South. There should be a road behind the house and up a hill that takes you to another abandoned home this one much newer built by the son of Dr Hicks there used to be several abandoned cars there and an RV I see the heavy equipment is still there though this is so so sad to me :'( my grandfather was in the old TB Hospital when I was just about 5 or 6 years old we was there for 3 years I have a lot of photos 💙 also I don't know if you know about this or not but Dr Hicks used to print out I believe it was two or three rooms there as Apartments. Any who thanx again for this video :)

    • @donnaharman3819
      @donnaharman3819 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he did rent the house out. My best friend lived there early 90s and it was a creepy house and never witnrss any haunting but yea creepy. Yes it was split into 3 apts.

  • @maripichardo7861
    @maripichardo7861 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I see this house everyday and I always tell my family I wish that was mine I love that place it has so much potential it could really be beautiful!!

  • @MyLifePixeled
    @MyLifePixeled ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live near this and I remember when the house was occupied in the 90s.

  • @vonbizzy6615
    @vonbizzy6615 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Have always seen it through the shrub line but never knew what it was. Thx bc now i know!

  • @eatMOREpandas
    @eatMOREpandas 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've seen this place my entire life, grew up off dixie. We always wanted to go explore this place, it's really cool to have seen it a bit closer.

    • @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238
      @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/eiGGAkoZJO8/w-d-xo.html see this house at night raining

    • @Rebecca-ho8ex
      @Rebecca-ho8ex 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me to, We lived out there for years, It's right next to Waverly while My kids and I snuck in there in 2004, we went up the chute as we got to the top closer to the door, It got extremly cold while we felt this pressure of force push us back and wouldn't allow us to go any further. I was only 28 at the time and the children were young. It scared us to death. We ran out of there as fast as we could. I solely believe in spirts while this one didn't want us there. I thought the house has something to do with Waverly TB Hospital. Thanks for the adventure..

  • @damonharris7659
    @damonharris7659 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    it was doctors Hicks office and he rented out apartments there

  • @BrennanCallan
    @BrennanCallan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi folks,
    I started to reply to someone on a topic further down the list. Here is an update for 8 May 2019.
    *********************************
    The crane was removed in 2018 and the property is getting cleaned up. In 2019, there is an effort to sell the full 43+ acres of land. The round building at the start of the film is called a silo. Normally, that is where corn would be stored, dried, used, sold, or even removed to make whisky in a still. The corn or grain could also be fed to the cattle that someone else mentioned earlier on this list.
    As much of the 43+ acres of land is on and along the hillside, this means that very few folks would want to purchase it. Then the area is bombarded with electronic smoke from the cell phone towers and the high power electrical lines. You might as well move into a microwave oven when the 4G and 5G cell signals begin penetrating the blood-brain barrier of anyone attempting to live on that property. Speaking of ghosts, you will become one shortly after being exposed to the swamp of electronic smog emanating from those many neighborhood cell and electric towers/poles.
    Thanks for the various discussions by folks mentioning the history.
    Only one person on the list mentioned the official tracts of land. You can research these tracts on the Property Valuation Administration webpages: jeffersonpva.ky.gov/
    The address is: 9101 Dixie Highway. Here is the PVA information:
    jeffersonpva.ky.gov/property-search/property-details/239512/?StrtNum=9101&Single=1
    Mailing Address
    1929 MAJESTIC MEADOWS DR, CLARKSVILLE, IN 47129-9076
    Owner
    JOHN H HICKS JR REVOCABLE TRUST & AN
    Parcel ID
    104800010000
    Land Value
    $450,500
    Improvements Value
    $20,000
    Assessed Value
    $470,500
    Approximate Acreage
    43.3469
    Property Class
    101 AGRICULTURAL W/DWELLING
    Deed Book/Page
    7808 0705
    District Number
    500009
    Old District
    24
    Fire District
    Pleasure Ridge Park
    School District
    Jefferson County
    Neighborhood
    508142 / TIMOTHY HILLS
    Satellite City
    Jefferson County
    Sheriff's Tax Info
    View Tax Information
    County Clerk
    Delinquent Taxes
    ******************************
    The place is a dump. They will never get that assessed value. The land owners at the top of the hill should purchase and extend their lots down to the railroad tracks allowing for a common road easement. That all creates liability for each of them they likely want to avoid as there would be persistent homeless folks and dumping.
    Someone could see if there is a tax lien option to get this property.
    bye
    B

  • @gailspaw5521
    @gailspaw5521 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love watching

  • @poodinks
    @poodinks 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You had a good content at making video, not like other youtubers who makes a fking clickbait videos, Keep it up bruh

  • @Cryocide
    @Cryocide 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Apparently for 350k it can all be yours. The listing says the house was built in the 1800s. From the look of the place, I thought maybe it was further south and had gotten flooded, but nope. I'm I feel like I remember seeing the entrance with its own tiny railroad crossing (not so much the house) in the early 90s when I lived in the area and thought that would kinda suck. Having lived that close to a railroad a couple of times (why does this keep happening?? LOL) I can say for sure that the noise there would've been intense every time a train rolled through, even if they didn't blow the horn at the uncontrolled crossing.

  • @klyn9966
    @klyn9966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Makes you wonder what happened to the people that lived there and why the belongings were left behind. Interesting

  • @vladimircain
    @vladimircain 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had no idea this was near Dixie dieway. This is interesting. I wonder if homeless people have claimed it

    • @stefaniecurry5804
      @stefaniecurry5804 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Big homeless following in Lou I wondered the same thing

  • @martinxplo
    @martinxplo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice exploration! New subscriber here

  • @andrewwilson8582
    @andrewwilson8582 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’ve been here 3-4 times and the 4th time I went got ran off by someone at 2 in the morning someone either working on it or owned this place but they were sleeping in a truck and we walked up to the truck cuz it wasn’t there before and seen someone laying in there and we took off running and got chased out

  • @mingothompson6977
    @mingothompson6977 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know this place this place has my family name on it, I see the initials MT MKT on the wall the room we stayed in. Wow crazy huh. Let me know what else did you find

  • @jacobnewton2001
    @jacobnewton2001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've lived in Louisville my whole life I know some abandoned places

    • @nickcarey2603
      @nickcarey2603 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stefaniecurry5804 lets go!!!!!

    • @wilsonyoung3109
      @wilsonyoung3109 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are there any you recommend?

    • @LynnNliz
      @LynnNliz หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would you mind letting me know some of them we’re getting a list together of places to explore!

  • @ManuelGonzalez-th4rl
    @ManuelGonzalez-th4rl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the Video. Yeah if I was alone like you, I wouldn't have gone inside either. It could be Dangerous! You don't know who's inside or hiding inside.
    Keep up the good work with your videos!

  • @TheRainbow
    @TheRainbow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a house in my neighborhood that my son came across. Indoor pool, arcade games but is abandoned. I live off new cut.

    • @angelwaters7918
      @angelwaters7918 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can I get the address of this place? My friend and I are looking to do an abandoned photo shoot

  • @kevhantamarshall7640
    @kevhantamarshall7640 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I was younger and used to ride the bus I used to see that house all the time and I always wanted to know what why was it abandoned

  • @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238
    @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The house is even creepier at night but fuck it...lol...reminded me of a horror movie moment waiting 4 a creepy pyscho fuck 2 jump out

  • @keithspear9083
    @keithspear9083 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sure wish you would have waited till you had someone with you so you would have went inside.curious as to how it looked in there.i also have driven past that place quite a few times and wondered about it..nice to read the comments and get some info on it.thabks.

  • @TrishPatches
    @TrishPatches 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    looks like south Jefferson County area. Many land and homes were purchased years ago, for the flood wall, some moved others just left to rot, looks like Moors landing area.

  • @GabbyBadddCurly
    @GabbyBadddCurly 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish i can find some pics of when it looked nice but Google keeps showing the abandoned one

  • @dewaynemaddox1296
    @dewaynemaddox1296 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Should have went in brother!

  • @jason00121
    @jason00121 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It has been abandoned my whole life. Several times I think someone tried to work on it, but seem to not get get very far.

  • @KitschyTravels
    @KitschyTravels 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good explore, i love all the paint peels

  • @reaganl.5113
    @reaganl.5113 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm sure the road was the driveway at one time. Doesn't look too old, I would guess less than 20 years vacant. I saw modern telephone and electric panel hook up and an empty meter base. I would bet you were trespassing on someones land!

    • @louisvilleurbanexplorer7176
      @louisvilleurbanexplorer7176  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Reagan L. Maybe, but there weren't any signs posted.

    • @reaganl.5113
      @reaganl.5113 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you find a mailbox at the end of the driveway and get the number off of it. You should be able to look up the address downtown and see who had ownership. I think the sheriff's office or property valuation would be able to help you.

    • @Hookiedookie123
      @Hookiedookie123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reaganl.5113 your so much fun

  • @Thatwilcraig58
    @Thatwilcraig58 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The metal building is a cylo

  • @msannabell1561
    @msannabell1561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I don’t understand why you go there and most of video is of you walking to the house at a snails pace. If you went to do a video of house why didn’t you go prepared! I could go on and on but what a disappointment!!

  • @camicrum406
    @camicrum406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have lived there my whole life but never seen it

  • @debscreepy
    @debscreepy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool crane!

    • @BrennanCallan
      @BrennanCallan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The crane was removed in 2018 and the property is getting cleaned up. In 2019, there is an effort to sell the full 41+ acres of land. The round building at the start of the film is called a silo. Normally, that is where corn would be stored, dried, used, sold, or even removed to make whisky in a still. The corn or grain could also be fed to the cattle that someone else mentioned earlier on this list.
      As much of the 41+ acres of land is on and along the hillside, this means that very few folks would want to purchase it. Then the area is bombarded with electronic smoke from the cell phone towers and the high power electrical lines. You might as well move into a microwave oven when the 4G and 5G cell signals begin penetrating the blood-brain barrier of anyone attempting to live on that property. Speaking of ghosts, you will become one shortly after being exposed to the swamp of electronic smog emanating from those many neighborhood cell and electric towers/poles.
      Thanks for the various discussions by folks mentioning the history.
      Only one person on the list mentioned the official tracts of land. You can research these tracts on the Property Valuation Administration webpages: jeffersonpva.ky.gov/
      The address is: 9101 Dixie Highway. Here is the PVA information:
      jeffersonpva.ky.gov/property-search/property-details/239512/?StrtNum=9101&Single=1
      Mailing Address
      1929 MAJESTIC MEADOWS DR, CLARKSVILLE, IN 47129-9076
      Owner
      JOHN H HICKS JR REVOCABLE TRUST & AN
      Parcel ID
      104800010000
      Land Value
      $450,500
      Improvements Value
      $20,000
      Assessed Value
      $470,500
      Approximate Acreage
      43.3469
      Property Class
      101 AGRICULTURAL W/DWELLING
      Deed Book/Page
      7808 0705
      District Number
      500009
      Old District
      24
      Fire District
      Pleasure Ridge Park
      School District
      Jefferson County
      Neighborhood
      508142 / TIMOTHY HILLS
      Satellite City
      Jefferson County
      Sheriff's Tax Info
      View Tax Information
      County Clerk
      Delinquent Taxes

    • @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238
      @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/eiGGAkoZJO8/w-d-xo.html the crane is gone as u will see in me n my homie video here

  • @alastairholland9352
    @alastairholland9352 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should have gone in. But I can't figure out why so many haters gave u thumbs down.

  • @stanleymarrero5730
    @stanleymarrero5730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see that house all the time

  • @rodneytaylor7700
    @rodneytaylor7700 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everytime I drive pass here I always wondered what happened to this place. From memory it was a beautiful home and as I remember I did a couple of pick ups at this resident, when I worked for Atlantic express (now tarc 3)

  • @TedRoots-j1u
    @TedRoots-j1u หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who owns that property now I got any miles Stevenson

  • @Drewiduation
    @Drewiduation 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude- you gotta check out the buildings along Main Street in downtown Louisville. Did you realize that the original ground floor level is now buried below street level? ....the original street level has been buried. I suspect the mud flood theory

    • @BrennanCallan
      @BrennanCallan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The access points in the sidewalks to the underground sections are where the coal bins used to be filled to heat boilers in buildings as well as furnaces. It is not that there was an earlier ground level, but access for the earlier utilities that would function in the basements.
      Homes built throughout Louisville still had coal-bin access doors into the 1930s. These doors were where coal delivery services could open the door and shovel coal into your house. The problem was that any crook could easily open the door, get inside of your house, and then take whatever they wanted. Yes, they would be a big mess in doing so.
      After WWII, many of the houses were converted to having heating units using natural gas and reducing the soot, smog, and extensive effort of shoveling coal into your own oven throughout the day and night to just keep your house warm.
      My grandparents purchased a house around 1937 in St. Matthews and what I described was from what they told me. It was a great relief when they converted to natural gas because they no longer had to stay awake just to put more dirty coal into the furnace. My grandmother had the same house that she and my grandfather purchased until about 1988 or so. My grandfather had already passed away before my grandmother sold the house.
      These conversions were part of the national trend to put returning soldiers/Veterans into new jobs while the countless companies that had converted to war-time manufacturing of goods for the military had to determine new and viable products to make America operate more efficiently.
      Eventually, some home-owners removed the coal bin doors or found ways of mounting brackets on the inside to ensure no one broke into the house through the doors.
      The many shotgun houses in Louisville did not have coal bins because most of those houses lacked any basements. Therefore, as you research the architecture throughout Louisville, it is easy to get an idea of the ages of homes based upon whether they had coal bin doors or not.
      Hopefully, this discussion explains why you see vents along the sidewalks even in 2019. Another reason that there are vents today is that when the utility rooms were converted to modern HVAC units, the air intake is done from the grating sections along the sidewalks. Then another issue is that major electrical transformers were placed underground so that the ground and upper floors could be rented.
      What is buried throughout Louisville are not only our sewers, but also the former streetcar and interurban railway tracks. We had over 148-miles of street car tracks and about 97-miles of interurban trains. I spent over five years researching that vast topic and it motivated me to earn a BS degree in Environmental Analysis in Geography.
      There is a wonderful book by Elmer G. Sulzer called "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky." I wish he had more information than what is enumerated on Louisville's streetcars and interurbans, but what he has documented is rather valuable anyway.
      Best wishes everyone! What I appreciated in each of the discussion points of folks was the respectful tone.
      Brennan

  • @cdramafpv
    @cdramafpv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ever consider drone content? you should. hit me up if you want to collabo/link up. Be safe out there!

  • @zirrrr466
    @zirrrr466 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bruh I use to ride by that house every day wondering what was in it

  • @mattmcclain8911
    @mattmcclain8911 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey whats up man I just moved to Louisville and would love to make some content with you

  • @brianhicks5146
    @brianhicks5146 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah you're right Hicks family owns it

  • @bigaparker1977
    @bigaparker1977 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What up man u scared to go in? Yup me too

    • @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238
      @wickedkingofmiseryindepend9238 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I went in...me n my homie went inside this place...watch our video th-cam.com/video/eiGGAkoZJO8/w-d-xo.html

  • @michelle5500
    @michelle5500 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok that's not far from my house, I'm watching this in 2019. That's not a house it's a hospital 😂

    • @georgeglenn4138
      @georgeglenn4138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's not the hospital (Waverly Hills), it's Dr. Hicks home. Hospital is on up the hill.

    • @georgeglenn4138
      @georgeglenn4138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's not the hospital, it's Dr. Hicks` home. Hospital is on up the hill.

  • @luisjaviersaborit6169
    @luisjaviersaborit6169 ปีที่แล้ว

    Location please

  • @normanfletcher8332
    @normanfletcher8332 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Would like to see inside, Now when you explained, Smart Move, I would do like you, Not...

  • @antoniovillegas894
    @antoniovillegas894 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You know if you carry a machete it could take care of all the tall grass. Js

  • @Tsadie1
    @Tsadie1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SNAKES 🐍 🐍🐍🐍🐍😱

  • @busterbrown1937
    @busterbrown1937 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why didn't you go inside more

  • @richardprovost8204
    @richardprovost8204 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's the old prison wardens house they say he used to torcher and kill prisoners there. Haunted now.

  • @shrimpymacdougall3134
    @shrimpymacdougall3134 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dan Bell will go in with you

  • @wilmamiller2271
    @wilmamiller2271 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why didn't you have someone go with you and you should have had flashlights

  • @meganromero3298
    @meganromero3298 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    You might want to check out the old Moser leather factory in New Albany. It's incredible! Definitely worth looking into. I explored last summer. Unfortunately there is quite a bit of vandalism but still an amazing adventure

  • @levilamont8005
    @levilamont8005 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dr. Hicks house

  • @thespinbackmonster
    @thespinbackmonster 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard Mexican mafia use to live there

    • @502C.r.H
      @502C.r.H 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No one of the doctors from Waverly hills lived here i think