Reflective Silence - Memoir of an Abandoned Mansion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- At what point does a house become a home? Is it simply when we familiarize ourselves with it? Perhaps, but we feel it's more profound than that - Maybe a house becomes a home when its walls can embrace us, making us feel safe and welcomed. Though how does something like that come to pass? At what moment do walls transcend being walls?
We like to think the answer is this - A house becomes a home when we entrust it with enough memories that it knows us as well as we know it.
This begs another question - After everyone leaves, and a house no longer has someone to watch over, does it cease being a home? This question is not so easily answered. Unless, of course, you've personally spent time in an old house, especially one that had known generations of families. If you have, then you know the answer - Once a house becomes a home it never forgets. Though the structure may slip away over the years, its anatomy eroding through the seasons until one day crumbing to dirt and timber, it will remember its purpose until the last wall falls.
This old manor was once a home. It still is, even caked in dust and webbing. The humidity of summer made the air within the mansion uncomfortably hot and still, and as we moved through the rooms the aroma of water-damaged wood swirled around us. A bitterness emanating from some unseen rot festering away in the walls. A terminal cancer. Patches of sunlight entered through tattered curtains and ripped plastic, illuminating not just the rooms, but decades of family photos strewn across the floors and tables in nearly every chamber of the home. The memories of the house are scattered and out of sequence like the thoughts of a failing mind. "Look at what I am" ... "at what I had.", it professes loudly through the debris. Old homes like this one, so full of relics and personal belongings, are often depicted as haunted. In truth though, it is the house, itself, which had become a ghost.
Spider webs hung and billowed from chandeliers and the corners of furniture. Tiny paw prints tracked across the dusty floors, beginnings and ending at broken window panes. Long ago, or maybe not so long ago, a family grew here. Now, these same walls fester and peel themselves apart. Purposeless. Forgotten. Spiraling toward an undeniable conclusion.
What a beautiful manor this must have been, obvious even without the adornments and photographs that surrounded us, telling their tales of holidays past, birthdays and family gatherings, children growing up and leaving, only to return with children of their own. The cycle of life through these walls was stunning, but at some point, that cycle had broken, and with it so too did the house.
Now, this once-grand estate slowly disappears, just as its cherished photographs fade from their paper backings.
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Its always striking to me how walls and belongings make a house into a home for us as people. But for the house itself, the people are what make it a home. In their absence, the loss of care and the passage of time, a place which held so many special moments
becomes no more than wood, stone and plaster again.
Discarded items slowly returning to nature.
A line in the song says that "only the living can die" .. this house was alive once,
and without its people is has died also.
A superb and emotional video as always !! Many thanks. !
Thank you so much. When we spoke with Ray Minervini about his work restoring the abandoned Traverse City State Hospital, he said a line that has forever stuck with us - "You bring a building back to life by putting art on the walls and music in the halls." It's true. Any building can come back to life if we inject life into it.
Beautifully done, as always!
Thank you. We had no plan going into this one, and documented things as we came upon them during our wandering through the old house. The day got more and more somber as we uncovered photo after photo, and recognized rooms and decor from decades ago. Time is the only constant in this world.
Just watched this and loved it. How poignant and dignified a capturing of the history of this building. Makes me think that what we live in a home isn’t our history so much as it is the house’s history. Beautifully shot, great song to accompany it. Love your work - please don’t ever stop!
Appreciate your kind words! We ourselves live in a home from 1850 and absolutely agree with your thoughts. No worries about us ever stopping, unless a building falls on us of course.
Wow! Love this, so emotional! Great work Rusty!
Thank you! It's very much a team effort though, all of this would be impossible to do alone 😵
Really well done, the contrast between the past and present is fascinating to watch.
Thank you! Finding those old photographs was quite a surprise. They made our visit to the old house a much more somber experience than we had anticipated, but in the end that was the most appropriate way to view the place.
A wonderful video and a thought-provoking place. We are dust in the wind. How often do places leave you so melancholic...
Many greetings from Germany! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thank you so much! Discovering the old photographs proved surprisingly emotional for us. We like to think that energy was present in the final piece here. Happy New Year!
Dies ist ein typisches Lost Place, das aber in Ruhe gelassen wird. Das erste wären die Oberleitungen, ist der alte Strom noch da?
Wenn Kronleuchter dann auch Spiegel. Das hier sind andere alte Möglichkeiten und alter Strom, hier wurde Licht gebrochen, vermute ich mal. Irgendwelche Leute haben hier auch nicht versucht das Haus umzudrehen, also den Hintereingang zum Vordereingang zu machen. Und die kleine Figur ist Lines oder der Träumer mit seinem Schnuffel Tuch , Snoopy. Snoop Dog sollte sich dieses Lost Place angucken.😊, sie erinnern sich an verschiedene Dinge. Extra viel Lametta...z.B.
Oh ich hoffe das sich ganz viele deine Videos angucken. Der momentane Schwerpunkt sind die Treppenhäuser...weil es heißt Berliner Treppenhäuser sind das Rückrad. Und das das Rückrad nicht gebrochen wurde wird an anderer Stelle erwähnt. ❤❤❤
Very nice! Loved it. The vintage photos were a perfect touch to tie it all together. Merry Christmas!
Thank you! We always appreciate your words, they mean a lot to us. Happy holidays and be well in the new year.
That was good. At first I was worried when there was vocals but that doesn't matter.
THANKS
Antiquity Echoes is still my favorite channel
We knew a vocal tracks would be a bit unusual for some, but after hearing the lyrics we felt it was the most appropriate song out there when paired with this old home. As always, thank you!
I am going to share your channel with everyone. It’s excellent, top quality and respectful of someone else’s memories. I’m always amazed that people walk away and leave so many of their memories behind, perhaps an item passed down from relatives and now it just lays in waste.
Thank you so much! The human history element is what attracted us to documenting abandoned properties in the first place, and over the years it's that same element which has driven us to keep trying to be better ourselves. Your kind words mean a lot to us.
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The videos you produce are immaculate. The writing you give us just makes it more real and heartbreaking. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you so much! It means a lot to us when we hear from people who read the accompanying text, especially so if they enjoyed it. Happy holidays and stay warm 🎄❄️
Outstanding, as usual. You paint a vivid word picture along with the video. The old family photographs always get to me.
Thank you! It's always sad to see generations of photographs left forgotten, the people within them stare out in a haunting way.
Just excellent. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy new year!
Happy holidays 🎄🏚️
Your words are always as haunting and thoughtful as your photographs. ❤️
Thank you so much for reading our text, it means a lot to know people enjoy that element of our work.
HEY !!!!!! Y'all REALLY need to contact Black Dog Salvage & give them all the info you can about this house.
There is A LOT that could be saved !!!! All the furniture & woodwork, even the entire staircase.
Definitely appreciate the information, sadly it's not our place to give our those details. If we are able to find the owners we will definitely pass your message though.
@@AntiquityEchoes TYVM for replying & I hope you had a Merry Christmas.
But yes, I was trying to say, please connect the property owners with Black Dog Salvage.
They're a great company & have their own TV show & would do their best to dismantle the house with care & not just destroy things.
I'm a firm believer in karma & that all things have an "energy" & there's just so much in this video that could be saved.
What song is this? Its beautiful 😊😊😊
Thank you. We always credit the song and artist in our video descriptions. This is "Amaranthine, You Fly" by Josh Woodward.
Beautiful work as always. Love the song as well. Thanks for introducing me to Josh Woodward! 😀
Thank you. Josh Woodward is a phenomenal artist with a surprising range to his catalog.
@@AntiquityEchoes He certainly is. I'd never heard of him before this video, so thank you again!
Beautiful video. I love the song too. Where can I find it?
Thank you, and we have a link to the artist's website at the bottom of our video description.
@@AntiquityEchoesI am not finding a song by that name.
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Same.
Not me getting emotional about a house...its just dusty in here.
History is nothing if not emotion.