Abandoned Mini Mansion with a built-in Wurlitzer Church Organ
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- Today we explored an abandoned mini-mansion with a built-in Theatre organ in Ohio. This 1920 Colonial has lots of unexpected features including a build-in fountain, curved doorways, curved stairs, and a Rudolph Wurlitzer Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra build in Cincinnati, Ohio. We never expected to find so many wild features including a full-size Mighty Wurlitzer theater organ build into the home with a room dedicated just to hold its instruments. We are unsure if the organ was relocated and was once a church organ, a theater organ, or was built in when the house was built. The organ is just one of the many unique customizations of 2500 sqft Paster's Home. It definitely earns its classification of a Mini Mansion.
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It made me cry to see a beautiful and rare Wurlitzer organ in such a bad shape and with all the pipes missing and destroyed... somebody please save the rest of it!
The American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) should get a local chapter to swoop in there to rescue what's left of that beautiful Wurlitzer.
I'll take it out!
This home was renovated by Michael T Mangan in the early 80s. He was a music teacher at Patterson Co-op HS.
It pains me to see such a magnificent organ left to decay and suffer theft from scrappers. It at one time was a fully functioning piece. I am shocked that no one took it since they are pretty rare and go for lots. I would love to have an organ like that of my own. Shows how much people don't care for stuff.
Absolutely 💯 %
Looking at the spec sheet attached to the wiring junction board on the wall of the organ chamber at 9:26, I would like to revise my earlier statements that this may have been a style B Wurlitzer theatre organ. While, it may have started out that way, it's equally likely it's either some variant of "B Special" or else one of the styles listed as "Special" in the Wurlitzer factory records that mean a custom specification (i. e. not a "stock" catalog organ). The parts themselves are stock Wurlitzer parts, of course, but what is included, and the stoplist, looks custom, or possibly customized or expanded by a later owner (if so, they did a good job, as the additions look "factory" to my untrained eye).
Unless I miss my guess, this organ apparently originally had 7 ranks of pipes:
1. concert flute;
2. salicional (a violin- or string-tone rank);
3. vox humana (a reed-type rank, some people refer to this as the "goat" due to the tone);
4. trumpet (another reed rank).
These are the standard 4 ranks of their most popular theatre style, the style B, of which the original specification is here:
theatreorgans.com/au/opus/SP/SPB.htm
However, the spec sheet also shows a separate "Echo" division for the pedal,
with one rank,
5. Bourdon (big wooden flute), apparently having 58 notes due to being unified at 16' (octave lower) and 4' (octave higher) pitches as well as 8' (concert pitch), and played from the 32-note pedalboard of the organ.
I would imagine this "echo bourdon" is or was likely mounted in another niche or alcove somewhere else off the music room of the house, and probably not in the main organ chamber. (Otherwise, the "echo" terminology would be incorrect, as every pipe organ "echo" chamber I've ever heard of, is located some distance away from the rest of the organ, usually on the opposite side of the auditorium, church, or listening room).
Further, the spec sheet also shows a separate "Swell" division with another
6. salicional (string-tone) rank and also an
7. oboe (reed rank), likely located in another much smaller pipe chamber somewhere else off the music room.
As these would have both been metal ranks, they're likely already stolen, but anything is possible.
The chests and regulator for them would likely still be there, as they appear to be for the main four ranks in the main organ chamber.
I cannot tell whether this is a standard model B Wurlitzer to which this owner (or a previous owner) added the three ranks, or whether it left the factory like this, or perhaps had them added later by a technician or factory representative.
Hopefully a Wurlitzer expert will weigh in on here and maybe "recognize" this organ from the spec sheet.
I find it shocking that a beautiful house has been left to virtually fall apart. The organ should be rescued and put into another home where it will be looked after and enjoyed.
I think this could have been in a church first considering the added “swell” and “echo” divisions and then whoever lived here bought it and installed in this mansion. The original instrument does appear to be a style B.
I'd love to go to that house and see if everything is still there to try and salvage it. It'd be good to get it playing again at some point if of course it's in salvagable condition.
What remains of that Wurilitzer organ needs to be saved!!!!I hope organ fans see this video!!!The organ CAN be restored and put in a new place where it can be played and enjoyed rather than rotting away.You can see if there is an organ society in the area and contact them about this.An early model of this organ is quite rare!-what is shown here.This would have been in a smaller theater.Would love to see a video of this organ being played! Sad that scrappers took the metal pipes.Replacements can be obtained by a determined restorer.
Such a shame to see that beautiful whirlitzer theatre organ vandalised like that.
theatre organ mate not church organ!
The "sliding door with counterweights to make moving it easy" is actually a fire door. There is a Wood's metal link in there that would melt in case of a fire, releasing the weights and allowing the door to close on its own.
Spot on. I had one in my NYC loft. It's normal inclination is to close, so the counter weight reverses that. There was a lead link in the chain, designed to melt in a fire.
I'm going to take a guess here; Based on the architectural features the round doors in particular would suggest that the place was built sometime in the mid 20's to early 30's. I'd also guess that wherever this place was located was once a little backwater town. Combine that with other features like the Organ, baptismal fountain and niches in the walls to fit statues, it's my conclusion that the place did double duty as both a church and the residence of the priest or preacher until such time that the populace grew big enough to justify the construction of a new church. Or it's possible that the congregation in question never gained enough of a foothold and just moved on.
Man, would have loved to see this place in its day. If it was renovated in the 80's, that didn't take long for it to fall in to such disrepair. Heartbreaking!
Beautiful place!! All the old arch doors look amazing, pocket doors, and then the organ! It was so interesting, no graffiti, no mold to speak of! Just loved this explore, Great Job! Thank you for sharing...💞🍻💞
Thanks Brenda! Same here. It has been one of my favorites to date. Subscribe for more!
Just the doors alone are stunning! What a shame that they will be wasted & not reused! I hope someone rescues them!!! Absolutely beautiful place!❤️🇨🇦
Absolutely gorgeous! The doors and rounded archways! Love the wood and all the decorations! Would love to have seen it in its day!
The fountain is actually a baptismal font and a house next to a church is called a rectory
Beautiful organ!! Love all the hardwood!! Love the curved doors and windows!!
Same here! They don’t make them like that anymore!
That organ is a theater pipe organ and that room you was in was the pipe chamber that had all the instruments and the pipes for that organ. I know for that im part of the CT Valley Theater Organ Society. That area on the stairs is call a Niche for a statue or a vase for flowers, and the sliding door in the wall is called a pocket door.
I hope someone rescued that historic Wurlitzer organ. There aren't many of them left, and this one deserves more than to be trashed and forgotten.
I Love old houses, they have so much character and attention to detail. 😊. Such a great find
This is one intricate building thank you for taking the time to show us that
awesome awesome find, good ole Cincy Ohio, clothes chutes are nice for multiple floors, the holes in the door of the bigger chute was probably just for circulation & for like damp towels ect. we had a clothes chute in one of my homes, they are nice dont have to lug heavy baskets of dirty clothes down a bunch of stairs, you guys stay safe & healthy out there & thank you 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Somewhere someone has to have footage of this organ in action, whether it be an old home movie or a (local) TV broadcast. Those things were meant to be used in a big open space like a church or theater, I wonder how it sounded in the confines of a house? Sad that its gone to waste, but cool to see before totally gone.
I agree John. That would be amazing to find some footage 😎
There are other houses out there that have small, medium and large sized pipe organs installed ;) If you join the group "Residence Pipe organ building & repair", on Facebook, you too can install your very own small pipe organ into a spare bedroom or closet of your house! Although expensive when new, used pipe organs usually command very little money and unfortunately too many have been parted out and/or junked. This goes for both church and theatre organs. So, you can probably find a nice little pipe organ for not too much money, or put one together yourself from parts, and if you do the restoration and installation work yourself, it's a whole lot of work, but will save money. That is possibly what this homeowner did, but I'm not sure. Obviously there are right and wrong ways to do things, and so that group offers tech advice, and also you could try apprenticing to a friendly local organbuilder for a time to learn the trade, or if you're more into theatre organs, join your nearest local chapter of ATOS (American Theatre Organ Society) and volunteer on the organ crew of one of the local chapter organs to learn how to work on them. ATOS also sponsors a "Technical Adventure" every year for people wanting to learn to restore these. There is also the American Organ Institute at Oklahoma State University, which is a good and successful program.
Love and appreciate the old homes...you really captured all the cool details. Thank you for another great video : )
I would salvage all the doors and the organ. I hate those small tubes. Thanks for sharing.
You should call the American Theater Organ Society to go to the home and rescue that Wurlitzer. I guarantee that they could restore it and get it playing again. Call them even its been awhile. Great Vid!
Since the house is so large, has so many pieces of built-in carving (some of which are biblical symbols, such as the lion for St. Mark, etc.), is on church property and had a pipe organ in it I’m guessing that it was connected with a very large, well to do congregation in a wealthy urban location. A further guess - based on a brief look at the coat of arms over the fireplace - is that it was likely an Episcopalian parish house (“rectory”).
The big room downstairs reminds me of a banqueting room.
I agree ☝️ the owner must have been quite the entertainer back in the day!
It could be referred to as a spiral staircase because there is no landing between floors. The staircase just curves right into the next floor
I love round top arches
Brings back memories from centuries ago
Love the Architecture!
Me too!!!
Very very interesting & unusual place! Was there a full sized tub anywhere in that house?
Nope, all were mini tubs 🛁 wierd
Wow, I am agog. Great explore! Such a shame such a glorious place is left to decay and be vandalized. :-(
Your video has been shared on some Theatre Pipe Organ FB sites. If you can provide more detail about where this is - there are certain to be people who know more about this small Wurlitzer. There are many people who share their homes with pipe organs (me included).
That’s awesome. We don’t share locations because we don’t want someone to vandalize. I would entertain providing information to someone who wanted to save the organ. It would be a shame for it to just rot away.
@@OnceOccupied Based on your video there is very little to rescue. It's rather obvious that is was not originally part of the home but installed by a home enthusiast. Additionally there would be issues regarding ownership and liability. It looks as though all the metal pipe work has already "walked off". Best wishes.
I agree. If someone is very serious and messages me I can give the the owner listed in the property records. They haven’t been paying taxes so if they are alive a little cash could prolly buy it from them.
That water fountain in the front room looks like it probably held holy water. Very creepy old house. Possibly haunted.
Wow amazing explore!
So many rooms!
Thanks Connie 😊 This is one of my favorites. I need some big improvements on editing the last couple videos so hopefully there are quality. It only took me editing like 200 videos before I found tools that I could’ve been using the whole time 😜
Isnt that for baptism and not a fountain,is it called a font?
I am not sure but I would also love to know!
@@OnceOccupied your probably right about it being a fountain 🙏🏻
Yes, its for Christenings, downstairs was a church.
Now it's a birdbath.
Do you have a video of the church Next to this house, it is it still in use.
What a weird and wonderful old house! Definitely an eccentric’s house.
Actually in love with this place - I don't understand how they're just abandoned
Not a huge organ, it appears to only have one chamber, but it’s still something that needs to be salvaged and stored somewhere safe.
MrManiac3 not much of it left. all the metal pipe work was taken.
@@praestant8 a lot of the wooden pipes remain, and the windchests, and numerous other things. Metal isn't the only useful part of the organ. Somebody looking for a specific windchest to replace a missing or destroyed one could find it here. But yes, the metalwork is gone.
This is most likely a style B. (4 ranks) I think the wiring schedule # is 519 and according to the Wurlitzer opus list there were 3 installed in Ohio. If this located in or near the Toledo area I would be very interested is salvaging whats left of this instrument before its completely destroyed.
I love the old round pocket door
That organ must have cost a fortune. House was, and still is beautiful. Pastor must have been a short fella☺️
LS6-SS No, its a small organ that was likely taken from a small theater when it was no longer wanted
Where is this place? The Wurlitzer (or what's left of it) could stand preservation!
Have you explored the adjoining church?
"Niche" is what I think the shelf in the wall is called when ya went up the stairs.
That makes sense. Now let’s just hope I can remember that for the next time I see one and make a video 😜
Architectural terminology is not his niche.
😂🤣😂🤣😂
Wurlitzer never built a church organ. They only built theatre organs. And that is what you have. It's a small two-manual and a very common smaller Wurlitzer. In all likelihood it was not built in Cincinnati. It was probably built at the Wurlitzer factory in New York. It was more than likely sold by the Cincinnati store.
Interesting. To be honest I didn’t know there was such a thing as a theater organ but with this video I am learning all kinds of interesting information on organs. Is a cool community of people that love organs that are being super helpful! Thanks 🙏
Wurlitzer was known for their theatre organs. However, they did attempt to get into the church market, and did build some organs for churches (their concept of a church organ). They weren't very successful in that market, but did sell a few here and there. Cincinnati was Wurlitzer's corporate headquarters and one of the sales offices; the organ factory was in North Tonawanda, NY.
@@kc9scott my dad was a musician and he always preferred the Hammond organ for churches. But the Wurlitzer was always impressive.
Close.
Most Wurlitzers built were indeed theatre-type organs, mostly sold to silent movie theatres, auditoriums, etc. but they did build some special "residence" organs for residences, and also did build somewhere around 200(?) church organs for churches, mostly in the 1930s.
These weren't extremely different design or construction than their theatre organs, but did include specifications with pipe ranks etc much more suitable for liturgical use than theatrical use. (The residence organs were "orchestral" organs somewhere between their church and theatre organs in spec).
If you look at the list of Wurlitzer pipe organ styles here (this list does not include photoplayers, orchestrions, band organs, or calliopes), you will note that although most listed styles were theatre styles with drums etc. there were some church and residence styles.
theatreorgans.com/au/opus/st/styles.htm
Most of the church styles are identified with the "CH" prefix, with those JUST called "CH" being (to my knowledge) custom-ordered church styles, and not regular catalog models. Most of the residence organ styles (originally for homes), are identified with the "R" or "RJ" prefix. Wurlitzer built over 2,000 pipe organs from 1910 to 1942, so the model designations changed over time, with them going from a letter system to a number system, although some of the same models were kept over the years, old ones dropped, and new ones added.
A few of the styles listed here have "0" built as they were a style the Wurlitzer designers dreamed up and drafted specs (which survive), but for which none were actually built. Most of these styles, however, had one or more actual organs built and shipped. My best guess is that the organ in this residence was probably a small Wurlitzer curved-console ("CC" in the chart) theatre pipe organ style, likely the style B or B Special (all grouped under the "B" opus-number page), or possibly a style D or E. However, the number of stop tabs on the console suggests a B to me, as the D and E have a fuller stoprail, since they have respectively, 6 and 7 ranks of pipes (the B has 4, and the B Special often had 5). The main chest in the pipe chamber appears to me to have been probably a 4 or 5 rank chest, but I can't see it too well.
The B was their best-selling theatre model due to the size and price, and they built and shipped 225 of them over the years.
Very few survive intact today due to theatre organ enthusiasts' propensity to either enlarge "small" organs like this by adding more ranks of pipes, or else part them out and use the parts to build, or add to, larger organs: theatreorgans.com/au/opus/st/styles.htm
The place on the stairs with the shelf is called a niche. It's used to display statues or other items.
Interesting. I have heard the term niche but never put 2 and 2 together. Is it a religious thing?
@@OnceOccupied I'm not sure of the origin. I do know that a lot of older religious buildings and high end houses have them
Also called a vitrine.
I had an organ,in my house,and a piano,at different times.😳
I had a pennywhistle
I currently have a Wurlitzer 3 manual, 17 rank theatre pipe organ in my home. Restoring to hopefully play again. Yup, they are expensive! Wurlitzer organs were built in Tonawanda, New York, with main sales office in Cincinnati. There were aprox 2500 theater organs built by Wurlitzer. Most are gone now.
@@wizardofodds8239 I have an odd collection of Wurlitzer parts. My long term goal is a 22 ranker, in a home theater type setting. I have an open diapason, concert flute, half a tuba horn (from 16’C), a 6 rank chest (flute, VDO, Celeste, diapason, clarinet, orchestra.oboe), offset chest for 16’ bourdon, 16’ tuba, open diapason, and tibia, xylophone, glockenspiel, chimes, and 7 1/2 hp blower. The remains of this instrument would get me a little closer to getting something playable.
Where is this home? I know someone that might like to restore that organ.
Jim, Please have that person reach out to me at onceoccupied@gmail.com
Looks pretty shot, with lots of pipes missing and everything vandalized
@@HobbyOrganist yea. it would be good for scrap since it still has the xylophone and some other interesting parts/note types remaining
I live just north of Detroit and would be very interested in salvaging what’s left of that Wurlitzer before its gone completely. Through some investigative work I have found the location of this mansion but I will NOT divulge that information. If I could connect with the owner of the property we might be able to work something out but nothing would actually happen until the weather gets warm.
The round doorways are called "Arch doors".
Would you be willing to disclose the location? I'm an Ohio resident with a crew of very respectful urban explorers. We just explored grand prairie elementary school today, but I'd love to be able to find some of these beauties.
Sorry I only share locations with people I have personally explored with and just to protect these places. Stay on the hunt there are a ton of good gems 💎 out there that nobody post on the Internet
@@OnceOccupied I understand, it's best to keep these places protected from those who would cause harm. Keep up the good work man. Your videos are great.
Cincinnati area
It’s not in the Cincinnati area
Dude it would be amazing to see whats on that "home invasion" tape. I immediatley pictured some old security footage of a robbery or something.
I agree with 1 million percent 😳
It's probably the MOVIE...Home Invasion
Where in Ohio is this mansion located?
Sorry we don’t share locations in an effort to preserve them. I would have loved to show the outside but didn’t for the same reason. 🤫😜
Can you not at least identify the town or city or region? I'm not planning to go there. I live in California.
The slider door is a pocket door.
10:34 A telephone nook! Phone would be in the upper pocket, ringer box and network behind the door.
Dang I didn’t know that’s what that was for!
They often have a foldup mini desk so the user had a place to write.
Fantastic Find. One of the BEST ! Great narration. How do you find such great places ?? All my best and thanks, >
Thanks Jim. I hope they are getting better. I just started doing a lot more post production editing for color and noise reduction!
I think it’s monastery for catholic priests or maybe monks or nuns. But not a pastor. Great find! Keep up the good work!
one eyed dog unlikely as there is no evidence of catholic artifacts ever being in place
Probably not a laundry Shute. More likely a pipe rank for the organ. Check out American Theatre Organ Society.
Reminds me of a castle on the inside
Why would this unique and beautiful home be left to rot?! Nothing is built like that anymore, and what remains should be preserved.
It's in a bad area. NOTHING new built there since the '69 riots.
There's a neighborhood called "Wright-Dunbar" that has had significant restoration work, and a few actual new permits, but this home is well outside of that district.
Loved the explore. To be nitpicky, the cutouts in the walls are called niches; people put art, flowers, or religious artifacts in them. The "rounded" doors are "arched."
I have been able to determine the location of this mansion. I live just north of Detroit and would consider salving this Wurlitzer if the owner of the property is willing to allow it to be removed.
Sadly the property owner well not part with anything and it is just going to rot away 🥺
@@OnceOccupied just wondering what has changed. I have read other comments regarding the saving of this instrument and anyone serious could be given contact information to negotiate a deal. Like so many others commenting it would be tragic to let this rot-I’ve seen it happen too many times.
Amazing abandoned building. Such an odd conglomeration of a architecture decor and accessories. Definitely not all original or of the same era
How does a house ever get like this? If no one is paying taxes on it, wouldn't the city or county auction it off after three years? If someone is paying taxes, why wouldn't they sell it and save their money? Or rent it? There must be quite a story here.
That house is in really good condition, practically move-in ready for some hipsters.
Interesting 🤔
I'm pretty late to this party but I loved this explore. My house was built in 1930's and had arched doorways before my contractor decided square was better when I wasn't there. The church next door was most likely Catholic or Episcopalian, as someone suggested. Too bad they allowed the damage instead of selling to someone who could preserve this.
How exactly is that organ ''built-in?''
The console is stand alone but the there is a room build out our just to install the instruments. There are also huge vents going though the floor for it. It is built in compared to a piano. Did you watch the video where we go into the instrument room?
@@OnceOccupied Yeah it was kinda interesting. All controlled from that one big Wurlitzer. Must've been quite a challenge back in the day.
No doubt. Much of the wiring looked DIY like the homeowner was a huge organ enthusiast!
@@OnceOccupied If he was he was bloody good at it, lol
Yes, the organ is installed in a special room called an "organ chamber" which is supposed to be insulated and soundproof and has a door for access, and a large opening (or openings) in the wall, with wooden shutters, called "swell shades", which open and close under the command of the organist to let more or less sound out and make the organ louder or quieter.
Most church/classical organs have lots of unenclosed (not in a room or chamber) pipe ranks, and usually at least one section that is the 'swell' division, with those pipes located in a special cabinet with shades.
However, church/classical organs are usually voiced on lower wind pressure (anywhere from like 3/4" to 6 to 8" air pressure measured in water column), and so the average church pipe rank is quieter than the average theatre pipe rank.
Theatre pipe organs are usually voiced much louder than most church/classical organs (which rely instead on many more pipe ranks to build up the tone and fill in harmonics, rather than louder ones), with the average theatre pipe organ rank typically being voiced on 10" water column of air pressure, and theatre organs usually have fewer pipes on average than their church equivalents, but are able to couple the pipes in such a way as to be able to do more with less.
Since theatre pipes are so loud, almost all theatre organ installations are done with all the pipes in chambers and none unenclosed, with heavy duty swell shades for volume control.
The smaller organs were installed in one chamber, and the larger ones, in two (usually) or more (rarely) chambers, around the auditorium of the theatre.
This organ was almost certainly a small one and a single-chamber installation when new.
The organ in this residence is a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ, judging from the photos here, perhaps a style B with two manuals (keyboards in the console) and 4 or 5 ranks (sets of pipes), and was originally in a theatre somewhere before being moved here by the owner.
Besides the organ console (keydesk) located out in the listening area, a typical theatre pipe organ installation will also have a separate room for the blower, to keep it quiet, and frequently (but not always), a separate room for the relay and switchstacks which are the electro-pneumatic "brain" of the organ which basically translate the DC electric signals from the console to DC electric signals out to the pipe chests and percussions, and switch various things on and off.
That is 1920s technology.
I finished watching the video today and i really, really hate vandals even more.
I would love to have a house built around a pipe organ but would prefer something like a Skinner.
the stucco plaster is used to hide often uneven shitty underlying surfaces to give the illusion of a nice finish. generally its an older technique sometimes they use a paint roller sometimes a hand but usually it is applied with a gun and knock down technique. its still used on ceilings were the drywall was installed with no care to cover the contracters ass...look up people if its got texture you too have shitty plasterers...
I did that with my walls only because I didn't want to bother taping and sanding all that sheetrock
Strange house.I am not sure what type of design you would call this house.We had a tiny tub where I grew up.
The fountain was for Baptisms.
This place should berestored, the little insert built in the hall is called a neesh
Fountain or baptismal?
It is hard to say 😜Maybe bird fountain used for Baptisms 😳Please consider subscribing Dawn 🙏
Once Occupied I have subscribed! I do enjoy your videos.
That full on theatre organ with the drums and bells is amazing! That must have been extremely expensive to install!! I can't believe someone would have left it to rot away instead of selling it. Nice find!!
I agree. It is definitely unique! Thanks Bill 😎
Thats the bad part but as u saw the pipes and instruments was removed hopefully by a professional and nof some thief, the organ itself u would need 4 people to move it, the society im part of has 2 tgeater pipe organs in storage looking for new homes that we was able to rescue and we r in the process of rebuilding the Shelton high school theater pipe organ
If the heirs don't know the value of it. I have several old electronic instruments in my home. I know that some of the synthesizers are worth quite a lot. But still my father considers it all to be "worthless junk that I have wasted my money buying".
Organ is PRICELESS ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hope-Jones
If the house in itself isn't special enough, this organ tops it off.
I know of other people spending 100,000s of dollars to have such instruments built and installed in their homes, and here is one left to be vandalized and rot.
Would be great to see what is left of the organ being rescued and those parts used to restore other Wurlitzer organs.
I would gladly go and take that organ if i knew its location
I hope someone does!
@@OnceOccupied i def would ! you can always get pipes replicated or donated from other organs
Doesn’t look like fire, more like water rot and damage.
Some rooms as where has a fountain could've hold church services as well . The interior looks like spanish or Mexican architecture.
I believe the downstairs room was a speak easy during prohibition. The laundry chute had a wire going up the side reminiscent of a dumb waiter to send alcohol either up or down. It would explain away the door bell system as well. Robert Hope Jones was born in England and died in NY and created the organ system for the silent movie industry which he sold to Wurlitzer in 1908. I’ve never seen one in a private home before. Basically it made sound effect for silent movies and usually found in cavernous very ornate movie theaters before the onset of talkies as they called them. The rooms with square doors looked like an addition onto the house. Those square tubs are very popular in Japan. Great explore!
Elizabeth Kessler most theater organs are in homes since the 40s when they were no longer needed.
It's a shame that the room where the Pipes were and the organ are trashed
That organ..before MIDI that was doing it the hard way.
This is a murder-suicide house. I was only two blocks away that awful night, at my sister Clara's. We we sort of listening to the organ, you know the midnight bells were ringing. I turned to Clara and said, "Clara; the organ music sounds strange tonight!". Well, they say there are still bloodstains on the organ keys, and they've never been able to get them off. And they used Bon-Ami !
do explain please....
When did this happen?
Comment posted June 4, 2021 8:56 am
@@whattheheck1000 1965
Loved that movie as a kid lol
Thank you Don Knotts
in midevil times they would take a persons hand off for thieving was that such a bad idea ? id say if it was still done they're would be alot less theft !
I’m a little confused. We just explore abandoned places and never ever take anything.
@@OnceOccupied I think they were making a reference to items stolen by previous visitors to the house.
You explored a neighborhood 3 House farm in Dayton Ohio,when you were in the attic you were panning the camera around and there was some floorboards moved to the side and there is a head popping up to look at you then it goes back down.At the time someone left a comment but it wasn't recognisesd,so please can you enlarge it to see what it is I'm dying to no🙏🏼
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Some people keep pipe organs in there house and they build pipes and the whole works
This "things" on the stairwell are special shelves built to place ceramic images of certain saints of the catholic church and they would pause on the way up to pray to that saint.
It's a baptismal font.
Why do people (mostly teenagers) feel they have to destroy everything they see. Why can't they just respect the architecture of the homes, etc?,
The only hope is that someday they will reflect on their stupid teenage ways. Much of the vandalism we encounter is done by scrappers looking to make a buck to feed a drug addiction. Regardless it’s very sad. I’m just glad we get a chance to visit these places before they’re totally gone.
The niches in the walls were used to display Statues of Christ, or mother Mary.
My grandparents house had one of those niche's on the landing of the staircase to the second floor. I remember it having the ONLY phone in the house!
Idk, jus the fact it could have been a pastor’s house creeps me out. Somebody had $$$$$$. I’ve never seen anything like that music room
Same here! It is the size of an average house but was pack full of crazy 😜 features. Definitely had lots of 💵
Exactly Right!
Probably built by the church for the pastor and his family.
The organ is a wurlitzer theater organ. Probably a home version.
Why do you assume that the fountain was for holy water for god sake’s LOL
It was built on church property. I don’t think I said that in the video though. Who knows it could’ve been used for the family goldfish 😜
Omg please slow down. Gave me motion sickness!
I could not live in that house what with all the churchy windows and stuff. The organ is massively cool though. I'm not anti church. In fact I'm far closer to the opposite but being churched out 24/7 would drive me insane.