Was visiting the film this morning, as in awe of the Genius Of the Builder’s dream Also the story of The Great Lawnmower’s Mansion I grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 where I loved to go to lavish residential Area’s By bus usually on my own to Gaze at the most beautiful homes and properties . It was enough for me to just Go sightseeing, in an an area of Belfast named *Cherry Valley. I have lived a reasonable every day modest life , Now in my senior year of 80 yrs , still in awe of Wonderful Mansions and thank you for posting *This House Mary Canada 🇨🇦
Please know my great grandfather, Ransom Eli Olds, Founder of Oldsmobile & REO, invented the first American gas powered lawnmower & received a patent in 1915, before Edwin George. Love your videos!
Your great grandfather is the man who actually began mass production of the automobile. (The "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile ) It always PISSES ME OFF that Henry Ford gets credit for doing what Ransom Olds was ALREADY doing for nearly a DECADE before the Ford Model "T"! Ford's first company failed and was bought by Henry Leland to become Cadillac in 1902. While this was going on Olds was selling a LOT of his cars all over the country. The Model "T" didn't even EXIST until 1908. Olds was cranking out "Curved Dash" Oldsmobiles starting in 1901. It was OLDS that began to set "America on wheels". NOT FORD!!! Ford owned a newspaper, So he had his own "publicity machine". Ford was a fraud (in my opinion) AND a Nazi (In most historians opinion.) It truly sucks that Oldsmobile no longer exists! 😥🤬
@@jamesslick4790...settle down with your remarks about Ford vs.Olds. no one has ever said Ford invented the automobile, the production or even selling of the automobile. What Ford is recognized for is the INTEGRATED PRODUCTION LINE AS WELL AS THE INTEGRATED SERVICE LINFE.
Oh, that’s so sad. When you said that they filled up the cottage I thought it would be with children, not safari trophies. Interesting that we didn’t see anything like that in the interior shots. I like the mansion, it had beautiful light.
I absolutely love the fact that this video recommendation was right under a recommendation for a "King of the Hill" clip. And I don't even HAVE a lawnmower...or a lawn! LOL.
Ken, you and your team always have interesting videos. Love the stories of both the people and the homes. Thank you! Wow-this home has so many interesting details! Sad about the couple. Kirk of the Hills in Stl, though not my church, is very welcoming. Very interesting!
I would love a video on the Butterball Mansion in Grand Rapids, MI. I grew up nearby, and always wondered about it's history! And yes, it's named after the Butterball Turkey, as the man who patented the turkey lived there.
Like your videos... BUT sure wish you would show MORE of the home.. The kitchen is such an important room in the home... and the master bath is always interesting depending on the era of the home......
It was unusually thoughtful of him to consent to his wife’s requirements on spending money given the time period. I doubt most men would have been as accommodating. Too bad they couldn’t have come to a happier agreement.
Bessie sounded like a real prudish, uptight, religious bitch freakazoid . I would have told her I was leaving the house to the Church, but never write it in the will. She didn't deserve to be in Edwin George's life. I would have taken on a mistress right at the start of her spewing her religious CRAP ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
Are you showing 2 different but similar houses here? For example, @ 1:50 we see 3 rough cut stone chimneys and an arched window, then @ 2:03 there are only 2 sculptured brick chimneys with a timber framed window and a slightly different ridge line to the roof. The expanded mansion @ 5:53 shows the rough cut stone chimneys.
This became Kirk in the Hills? Wow. My parents had friends who attended there. Presbyterian beauty. Love to drive by there. I was in there once as a child. Just remember it being dark. The woods inside are very dark. Still, this story was fascinating.
Oh God! I loved this house a lot. I adore the "added on" aesthetic that blends styles like it's been remodeled a few times over serveral generations. It has more character than a single unifying concept. It also makes a large design feel intimate. Those interior wide entrances feel friendly and welcoming instead of a narrow door to a large hall. I sincerely admire this house. I could live there and feel st home. Thank you for the video. 😊
Oh, the library! I would absolutely love love love a library like that. I would have had to go through the whole house and get rid of all the trophies of those poor animals he shot.
Most inventors back then didn’t invent, they were just able to get a patent, most of them stole or took the idea because the actual inventors were not allowed or couldn’t afford to get a patent.
Good for him. He worked hard and did good things for others and he should build a mansion if that’s what he wanted. I would have left old Bessie in the ditch if she had told me I can’t enjoy the fruits of my labor
This has to be one of the saddest editions I’ve seen. This was an empty house. No wife or children. Heck, he even left for months at a time with out his wife.
I would imagine she felt that it was wrong to live a lavish (garish) lifestyle as she felt the need to live humbly and in humility. Maybe she felt the extra money should be donated to charity, helping others, rather than indulging themselves in worldly riches. Since it was so important to him, she compromised. Since he wanted it so badly (was probably very determined) she agreed to give him her blessing on building his mansion, enjoy the fruits of his labor, and the Lord will use it as a church to grow His flock after he is gone. Maybe she wanted to save her marriage and try to remain true to her own principles at the same time. In the end, he left anyway. I heard once, "What we compromise to keep, we will eventually lose."
The thing that stands out to me is that he bagged so many African trophies that he needed a bigger house to display them, but in none of the pictures shown is there a single taxidermist animal trophy. Maybe he just wanted to get away from the wife, who sounds like a real virago.
Bessie sounded like a real prudish, uptight, religious bitch freakazoid . I would have told her I was leaving the house to the Church, but never write it in the will. She didn't deserve to be in Edwin George's life. I would have taken on a mistress right at the start of her spewing her religious CRAP ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
He did not get rich in the fur trade in Michigan in the 1890s . Their is more of the story than that . The fur trade business was over in Michigan by 1865 . My family were early settlers in Mi. , Fur and lumber was their business, many lumbers mills and 10s of thousands of furs a year . I have all the records of the business transactiona and like i said by 1865 the woods of Michigan were trapped out and by 1900 most land lumbered out .
Beautiful house, but a fortune based on fur trading is nasty. and his trophy hunting seems particularly repulsive in light of the current threatened extinction of many of these animals. But, those were different times. Balzac - "Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime".
The church always ruining things lol but this area is really nice. Unfortunately you live in a place where the nearest city is Pontiac and it's POS and to the south a bit Detroit...not coming back this lifetime
Hi Ken, please delete my comments if you feel that they don't belong here on this forum because they have nothing to do with This House. Thank you so much I know that times were different but there are still a lot of people today that enjoy killing animals that are not going to be eaten, but they want that head hanging on their wall and the fur industry that used to use steel traps to capture animals just for their furs to be used for the latest fashion trends. I believe that fur animals are kept in cages outside now so that their fur grows nice and thick. The First Nation Native Americans had to kill animals because their survival depended upon them and they used every part possible.
Native Americans worked for fur traders doing the exact opposite of what you said . Real life is often different than a fairy tale . Indians wanted the white mans comforts and would do whatever it took to get a steel knives or cast iron pot .
@@kenj.8897 Thank you so much for filling in the flaws of my statements. Once the First Nation people saw what comfort they could have, they also joined the killing that was beyond basic survival. Imagine what they traded for guns, ammunition and horses!
@@MeMyselfAndUs903 good to know. There’s a Kirk in Stl that close friends attend/children at the school. Interestingly, this is also in a nicer suburb.
He built the mansion to display his "trophies" but there was no trophy room in the house? He married to start a family and evidently they never had kids? Talk about two people totally unsuited for each other. Bessie the buzzkill. Nice mansion, tho.
Gobsmackedly beautiful house and gardens! I could quite easily live in this particular house. However, having said that, I do understand that conflicts regarding money are one of the most common causes of marriage breakdowns. I firmly believe that couples who want to get married should throughly discuss all aspects of their lives and expectations before tying the knot 🪢 🤔.
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He is perfect example of- right place, right time, right knowledge
Very interesting to see the house incorporated into the church complex today, Bessie would be pleased!
She was a pure manipulator who then lived separately from George. She sounds like a prude.
Was visiting the film this morning, as in awe of the Genius
Of the Builder’s dream
Also the story of The Great Lawnmower’s Mansion
I grew up in Ireland 🇮🇪 where I loved to go to lavish residential Area’s
By bus usually on my own to Gaze at the
most beautiful homes and properties . It was enough for me to just
Go sightseeing, in an an area of Belfast named *Cherry Valley.
I have lived a reasonable every day modest life ,
Now in my senior year of 80 yrs , still in awe of Wonderful Mansions
and thank you for posting *This House
Mary Canada 🇨🇦
I’m a metro Detroiter in my early 30’s & I don’t think I have ever heard about this! Wild.
Please know my great grandfather, Ransom Eli Olds, Founder of Oldsmobile & REO, invented the first American gas powered lawnmower & received a patent in 1915, before Edwin George.
Love your videos!
Your great grandfather is the man who actually began mass production of the automobile. (The "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile ) It always PISSES ME OFF that Henry Ford gets credit for doing what Ransom Olds was ALREADY doing for nearly a DECADE before the Ford Model "T"! Ford's first company failed and was bought by Henry Leland to become Cadillac in 1902. While this was going on Olds was selling a LOT of his cars all over the country. The Model "T" didn't even EXIST until 1908. Olds was cranking out "Curved Dash" Oldsmobiles starting in 1901. It was OLDS that began to set "America on wheels". NOT FORD!!! Ford owned a newspaper, So he had his own "publicity machine". Ford was a fraud (in my opinion) AND a Nazi (In most historians opinion.) It truly sucks that Oldsmobile no longer exists! 😥🤬
Ideal Power Mower Co.
@@jamesslick4790...settle down with your remarks about Ford vs.Olds. no one has ever said Ford invented the automobile, the production or even selling of the automobile. What Ford is recognized for is the INTEGRATED PRODUCTION LINE AS WELL AS THE INTEGRATED SERVICE LINFE.
Beautiful house but I kept waiting to see the cottage. I think that’s where I’d want to be ❤️
At the very beginning of the video you can see the original cottage in the upper left corner. Cheers!
Waking up to hear your voice first thing in morning, sets the barr very high for everyone else today 🙌😆
This home is breathtaking with a fascinating story!!! 👍👍🙂
What an absolutely stunning house and so tastefully designed and decorated.
Oh, that’s so sad. When you said that they filled up the cottage I thought it would be with children, not safari trophies. Interesting that we didn’t see anything like that in the interior shots. I like the mansion, it had beautiful light.
Funny how religious people so t live in luxury yet it’s ok the churches do. Seems a little hypercritical to me
The shots of the interior were probably taken by the church after they took over the property, hence no dead animals.
I absolutely love the fact that this video recommendation was right under a recommendation for a "King of the Hill" clip. And I don't even HAVE a lawnmower...or a lawn! LOL.
Man i just finished mowing my lawn and then i see this, it's meant to be!
Ken, you and your team always have interesting videos. Love the stories of both the people and the homes. Thank you! Wow-this home has so many interesting details! Sad about the couple. Kirk of the Hills in Stl, though not my church, is very welcoming. Very interesting!
The second empire strikes back!! I love that channel. 3:36
I've always liked Tudor architecture, but they are notorious for being dark, but im sure that larger windows could help that
The barrel vaulted ceiling in the sitting room was both grand and somehow cozy! Definitely a wow factor walking through the archway.
I would love a video on the Butterball Mansion in Grand Rapids, MI. I grew up nearby, and always wondered about it's history! And yes, it's named after the Butterball Turkey, as the man who patented the turkey lived there.
Like your videos... BUT sure wish you would show MORE of the home.. The kitchen is such an important room in the home... and the master bath is always interesting depending on the era of the home......
I'd love to see photos of "the cottage".
Poor Edwin. Bessie sounds like a real....piece of work.
It was unusually thoughtful of him to consent to his wife’s requirements on spending money given the time period. I doubt most men would have been as accommodating. Too bad they couldn’t have come to a happier agreement.
Bessie sounded like a real prudish, uptight, religious bitch freakazoid . I would have told her I was leaving the house to the Church, but never write it in the will. She didn't deserve to be in Edwin George's life. I would have taken on a mistress right at the start of her spewing her religious CRAP ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
I suspect he had a restless spirit and she knew that.
Are you showing 2 different but similar houses here?
For example, @ 1:50 we see 3 rough cut stone chimneys and an arched window, then @ 2:03 there are only 2 sculptured brick chimneys with a timber framed window and a slightly different ridge line to the roof.
The expanded mansion @ 5:53 shows the rough cut stone chimneys.
That is a great question. The house underwent several additions and renovations while Edwin was still living in it.
Which “Church” was the house donated to?
Looks like they made good use of it.
It was donated to Kirk in the Hills
Presbyterian
Loved it all actually one of the best and I've view alot. Ilike that it had so many styles nicely blended.👍🖤💚💜
This became Kirk in the Hills? Wow. My parents had friends who attended there. Presbyterian beauty. Love to drive by there. I was in there once as a child. Just remember it being dark. The woods inside are very dark. Still, this story was fascinating.
Very interesting! Love this house.
Beautiful house! The insides are magnificent!
I'm sure glad he invented the power mower.
Oh God! I loved this house a lot. I adore the "added on" aesthetic that blends styles like it's been remodeled a few times over serveral generations. It has more character than a single unifying concept. It also makes a large design feel intimate. Those interior wide entrances feel friendly and welcoming instead of a narrow door to a large hall. I sincerely admire this house. I could live there and feel st home. Thank you for the video. 😊
I agree! Though it is a huge home, it has a cozy feel to it in many ways.
Oh, the library! I would absolutely love love love a library like that. I would have had to go through the whole house and get rid of all the trophies of those poor animals he shot.
Another exciting episode. 😄👍
Good for Mr George for living his best life in spite of his wife. I don’t think they were a good match.
The Country Manor proves the more handsome once again. Nice vid! 💖 🏡
Edwin Budding invented the first lawnmower.
I would have preferred more pictures of it now
Would be curious to know if he was a relative. My dad was from Pennsylvania with last name of George.
I'm from PA and have ancestors on my mother's side with the last name of George! 😲
Most inventors back then didn’t invent, they were just able to get a patent, most of them stole or took the idea because the actual inventors were not allowed or couldn’t afford to get a patent.
Good for him. He worked hard and did good things for others and he should build a mansion if that’s what he wanted. I would have left old Bessie in the ditch if she had told me I can’t enjoy the fruits of my labor
very interesting
This has to be one of the saddest editions I’ve seen. This was an empty house. No wife or children. Heck, he even left for months at a time with out his wife.
. . . to lavish to live in, because it goes against her beliefs, so it gets left to a church . . .
A really good point!
I would imagine she felt that it was wrong to live a lavish (garish) lifestyle as she felt the need to live humbly and in humility. Maybe she felt the extra money should be donated to charity, helping others, rather than indulging themselves in worldly riches. Since it was so important to him, she compromised. Since he wanted it so badly (was probably very determined) she agreed to give him her blessing on building his mansion, enjoy the fruits of his labor, and the Lord will use it as a church to grow His flock after he is gone. Maybe she wanted to save her marriage and try to remain true to her own principles at the same time. In the end, he left anyway. I heard once, "What we compromise to keep, we will eventually lose."
I believe that it's 'FLORA' that gets planted in gardens. 'FAUNA' is what eats the flora in said gardens.😊
Ken, how do you speak so perfectly. Do you ever stumble or misspeak?
The most beautiful lawn I ever saw looked like a green velvet cushion. The owner cut the grass with scissors!
nice lawn
What denomination of church was this beautiful house donated?
Do Villa Leopolda please 🙏
I just have to say: It makes my heart ache to know that one who was cruel to animals lived in luxury.
Did he build a mansion for he and his girlfriend in Florida?
He had a great lawn lol😂
The thing that stands out to me is that he bagged so many African trophies that he needed a bigger house to display them, but in none of the pictures shown is there a single taxidermist animal trophy.
Maybe he just wanted to get away from the wife, who sounds like a real virago.
I noticed the same thing. I was waiting for a Teddy Roosevelt looking interior with a huge trophy room and then....nothing!
Bessie sounded like a real prudish, uptight, religious bitch freakazoid . I would have told her I was leaving the house to the Church, but never write it in the will. She didn't deserve to be in Edwin George's life. I would have taken on a mistress right at the start of her spewing her religious CRAP ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
Another sad story about wealth
Another sad story about a bad marriage, more like.
He was a self man man, I agree more like a bad marriage
very interesting story. Funny too...............he chose the wrong wife so he simply ran away to Florida and lived it up...haha
I would of went to church mow oftenly if I wasn't busy mowing all the church goer's lawns in town.
He did not get rich in the fur trade in Michigan in the 1890s . Their is more of the story than that . The fur trade business was over in Michigan by 1865 . My family were early settlers in Mi. , Fur and lumber was their business, many lumbers mills and 10s of thousands of furs a year . I have all the records of the business transactiona and like i said by 1865 the woods of Michigan were trapped out and by 1900 most land lumbered out .
What did the bedrooms and kitchen look like? What a waste of beauty 😮
Beautiful house, but a fortune based on fur trading is nasty. and his trophy hunting seems particularly repulsive in light of the current threatened extinction of many of these animals. But, those were different times. Balzac - "Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime".
Ruined by the church swallowing it whole. What a waste.
Except he didn't invent the petrol lawnmower.
Beautiful mansion. What a waste to turn it into a church.
Looks like John Wayne decorated it . Too butch for me .
beautiful house
though George and
Bessie were both
ridiculous human beings
peta would not like him
His poor wife. He was a bum.
The church always ruining things lol but this area is really nice. Unfortunately you live in a place where the nearest city is Pontiac and it's POS and to the south a bit Detroit...not coming back this lifetime
Hi Ken, please delete my comments if you feel that they don't belong here on this forum because they have nothing to do with This House. Thank you so much I know that times were different but there are still a lot of people today that enjoy killing animals that are not going to be eaten, but they want that head hanging on their wall and the fur industry that used to use steel traps to capture animals just for their furs to be used for the latest fashion trends. I believe that fur animals are kept in cages outside now so that their fur grows nice and thick. The First Nation Native Americans had to kill animals because their survival depended upon them and they used every part possible.
Native Americans worked for fur traders doing the exact opposite of what you said . Real life is often different than a fairy tale . Indians wanted the white mans comforts and would do whatever it took to get a steel knives or cast iron pot .
@@kenj.8897 Thank you so much for filling in the flaws of my statements. Once the First Nation people saw what comfort they could have, they also joined the killing that was beyond basic survival. Imagine what they traded for guns, ammunition and horses!
I do wish you would show the inside of the house…sooner and longer ..interesting stories but but to much talk
So the cottage is Elm Knoll and the mansion is now Kirk in the hill?
Kirk in the Hills is in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, a wealthy suburb of Detroit.
@@MeMyselfAndUs903 I know that. I watched the video. I was asking about the cottage mentioned at the beginning.
@@MeMyselfAndUs903 good to know. There’s a Kirk in Stl that close friends attend/children at the school. Interestingly, this is also in a nicer suburb.
He built the mansion to display his "trophies" but there was no trophy room in the house? He married to start a family and evidently they never had kids? Talk about two people totally unsuited for each other. Bessie the buzzkill. Nice mansion, tho.
I really want to see the cottage 😂
Gobsmackedly beautiful house and gardens! I could quite easily live in this particular house. However, having said that, I do understand that conflicts regarding money are one of the most common causes of marriage breakdowns. I firmly believe that couples who want to get married should throughly discuss all aspects of their lives and expectations before tying the knot 🪢 🤔.