We Explored an ABANDONED Horror Movie Mansion | House of the Witch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The Meadowcrest Mansion. An 8000 sqft Neo-Georgian home that was built in 1929 by Joseph McKee and John Edward as part of a 200+ acre farm called Hamburg Place that was owned by their father John E Madden. In 1932 Joseph passed away and left the mansion to his wife and children. In the 1960s I-75 was built which split the property in half. After Joseph’s wife passed away the mansion stayed in the family but sat abandoned for years. In 2017 the mansion was used in a horror filmed called “house of the witch” where a group of kids investigate a haunted mansion that had been abandoned for years. Today the mansion is being demolished for new development. So let’s take a look at what’s left before this beautiful home is gone forever.
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It hurt my heart driving past this home and not seeing it there anymore. It was beautiful. There was hardly nothing around it, so it stood so grand out there by itself!
I miss it every time I drive by that way. It just feels so empty and erased. So very sad. It should have been saved.
What a beautiful old mansion. So sad to see all of the old beauty's being tore down just for modern development. I would think the 3rd floor would have been maid quarters. The bathrooms were very basic. Thanks for the tour! Bev
Wow!!! What a house. I'm glad someone is trying to salvage stuff. I'd hate to think that all those cedar closets would be destroyed. It's so big you'd almost expect it to be a hotel. Thank you for the adventure.
So glad you didn't hurt yourself it's so sad to see such beauty being taken away history will be gone forever thanks for sharing this beautiful home and taking us along with you guys stay safe!
It must have been a stunningly beautiful mansion in the early days. It looks more modern to me than a house that was built back in 1929. Do you know how long it's been abandoned? Thanks for posting this.
You are a great advocate for saving these homes. I wish more could be done to save each one. Each one is as precious as the day it was built and for whom it was built for. Today's houses cannot compare or compete, or the craftsmanship be affordable or even available in some instances. It's such a shame to lose these old, and once very grande beauties :(
I find abandon homes like this so sad. Somebody worked their whole life to build and afford that. It could be a mansion like this, or a modest home on farm or in a city. When they pass, the people that inherit it let it fall into decay, or sell it and move on. They did nothing to earn what they inherited so it has no value to them.
👍👍👍👍 true
It's horrible to see such beauty demolished. That would make for a wonderfulhome for many people maybe women or men with children that r homeless or suffering domestic problems
Is what happens when ya are raised in privileged life like that or born into wealth, those types don't understand the value of hard work or let alone never really had experience with it and tend to not appreciate the little things.
I love that green bathroom, with the sunken bath, it's beautiful 🧜🏾♀️ ❣️
Have you changed your socks, yet?
You're making me feel cold ❄ x
Whoa!!! House of the witch! Cool!!!
GORGEOUS!! Ethan Minnie would love to have a shot at this staircase!! Beautiful history.
What is truly important is that the house is/was built to last. Homes nowadays and if left abandoned would mold up and get destroyed quickly.
This is my hometown! I'm so sad they are tearing it down.
Also--- you should check out Elmwood in Richmond KY. I had the privilege of touring it when I was in college at EKU, it is incredible.
So sad to see such beauty torn down, but it does appear they're removing some things. Great video!
Such a beautiful place. I’m sad to hear that it will be torn down.
Thank you for posting the video, always wondered what it looked like inside. Great video. I always liked seeing this house when I an in the area.
This house is up the street from my house I always wanted to go see it and now there tearing it down 😢
I love all the Cedar closets.
Such a beautiful house. Its so sad its being torn down. New subscriber,looking forward to watching more of your videos.
It looks like they might have been trying to salvage at least some of the home to repurpose. Those floors fetch a pretty penny and, the fireplace hearth as well.
Only in America do we destroy our magnificent historical homes and buildings. A staircase like that can't be replicated today. Why couldn't this have been the center piece of the new development??? That way it could have brought joy to people for another 100 years. Sickening waste.
Love that large attic space. 😀
waiting patiently lol
always sad to lose another historic home to make way for progress. How many things in this world were built on top of ancient structures to make this happen. In the UK and so many other places digging down will most likely bring up the past. I find that rather comical because as soon as they realize what they have they halt progress on the new to preserve the old. All digging stops and so does the "progress" that was supposed to be made. A rich irony I think !!! the old closets were made of cedar to keep the moths from eating the clothing stored within them. so much more wool was used in the production of clothing back then. now we have so many different kinds of cloth. So many details still remain to archive on this day. So happy you were able to get there before it was all gone. The clothes dryer in the basement was fascinating, a really advanced piece of progress for its time. So great to see they are preserving what they can before it is gone. the top floor was undoubtedly for the servants to live. The bathrooms were more utilitarian and much less fancy than the ones in the rooms below. Household staff didn't get fancy just practical accommodations !!! Thank you so much for the history lesson, it was a fascinating one !!!
I'll bet the third floor was the nursery and nanny floor. Nice video!
Seen that movie. Great video as always!
You do a awesome job
I'm so excited!!
Makes me sick when they destroy beautiful old homes.
Wow cool
Did no one see him fall at the start 😂😂
Looking forward to watching 😍
Wow this is scary I had dreams about this house as a child very scary ones that someone was trying to kill me and I was running for my life through that home and it's exactly the way it was in my dream except it was newer and nicer in my dream
I’m about an hour away from there!
That maybe a old dry cleaning station the put in to save from having to pay for dry cleaning they just did their own
Cedar lined closets to keep the moths off of the clothes.
No not library! It's an attic and the little rooms off the bedrooms where the white Porcelain toilet where that would be maid's quarters
Ohhh okay I wasn’t sure
Ok that was a big mansion. Wow many housekeepers did they have for just the 4 of them? Cheez!
So sad they going get rid of old house
Clothing back then was made from wool, satin, or silk so they built cedar closets to keep moths out
Yes more traffic on the roads. Wildlife has less room to live at. Cars hitting them were they lived at onetime. I know the upkeep on the house was costing lots now!
In the basement that is an old type of dryer you hang close over it and sheets towels and it dry heats it
That’s awesome
Cedar closets to keep the moths out
Do you think they’re planning to sell all of those sinks and toilets? Curious why they’d spend the time removing them instead of just knocking it down.
The third floor - was that accessible only from a bedroom? What do you think it was used for? I’m curious why it was designed like that with the low ceiling/ roof. I’d think of their building a mansion they’d go all out?
Those old sinks and toilets are valuable, glad somebody will be able to enjoy them later. Loved the mint green fixtures especially.
@@debralarose8790 I thought they might be valuable but then I wasn’t sure if the toilets could have their inner mechanisms updated.
I remember growing up we had mint green and purple bathroom fixtures. And my grandmother had red and and an orange set. So miss the colors!
@@danielr6401 I love the lilac fixtures too, and wish the colored fixtures would come back into style. And also collect various color pictures of them on Pinterest. Esty has some vintage fixtures in colors for sale. And yes the inner mechanisms of the toilets can be updated.
@@debralarose8790 you would’ve loved my childhood home. The prior owner built it and continually added to it. His wife loved purple and so the upstairs bathroom was entirely purple. Toilet, sink, tub, shower, and even the wall and floor tiles were purple with some purple flower tiles. I realize now I wish I took photos of the house before we sold it.
@@danielr6401 The purple bathroom sounds Iovely! It's unfortunate no pictures were taken of the house.
Those are cedar closets
Sad
Y they taking it down
The closets are cedar
Aw, demolished? They can't save it?
Strange how each bedroom had a full bathroom..but the last bathroom...the toilet paper roll was inside the bathtub 🤷♀️
This is my hometown! I’ve driven by that house a thousand times and always wanted to explore it. I loved the movie so I could see what it looked like inside. As much as I loved this video it’s painful to see the house look so terrible and of course knowing it will be torn down soon. Thanks for exploring it one last time!
Same for me, I'd always drive by it anytime I wanted to go to Freddy's, which is very often.
Hey same here guys 🙋🏽
Me too! I drove by it earlier tonight to get to culvers, it’s almost entirely gone. i hate to see it go, my mom and i have always loved this house everytime we go to lexington we look at it.
I love these old homes, i wish they all could be saved.
I just heard voices in this house that wasn't yours.
It's always so sad for me to see a beautiful home or building, with so much history and so many stories, being demolished.
Thank you for giving us a last peek!
Me and my granddaughter would be in bottle heaven in here .
This makes me so sick. I hate that it's being torn down. History is disappearing 😕 😪 everyday. Thanks for taking us along. Thank God you could video it before it was all gone.
I live in Lexington and drive by at almost everyday, sadly it is gone now but it was such a beautiful home
I had to stop watching. Just like humanity to tear something gorgeous down to put in something boxy, ugly and with no charactor. Shame on the developer. May whatever he puts there never prosper or bring him happiness. So mote it be.
The dryer worked by hanging bedding or clothing on the rods, then placing hot coals in the trays under the drawers , then sliding shut it was mostly for bedding though. I assume they had servants taking care of such a large household because these types of dryers are seen in homes like this occasionally. I hope this will be preserved, because it’s such an interesting part of house managing history.
Thank you for tour of such a beautiful house, well was. Horrid that those greedy people destroy such beauty ...
@9:35 this was the first generation clothes dryer
Sad that they would tear that down it's historic a historic property shame on them
Wow this is scary I had dreams about this house as a child very scary ones that someone was trying to kill me and I was running for my life through that home and it's exactly the way it was in my dream except it was newer and nicer in my dream
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Looking so forward to this Big Bankz.!! My mom has been in the hospital for 5 weeks recovering from COVID. She was vaxxed and boosted but has been very sick. Please send a prayer up for her🙏. As always safe travels and explorations. God Bless!
Your mother will be in my prayers! I hope that she starts to feel better soon and be back home!
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HOW can all these beautiful historic homes be just razed?! So sad….!!!
This home is amazing!!! It's so sad it's gonna be torn down. I've never seen so many cedar closets before. And that dryer was so cool. I'm definitely gonna watch the movie either tonight or tomorrow. Thank u for another great video!! Stay safe. P.S. u can show the staircase over and over its still just as beautiful as the first time u showed it
With our country being so young, these are our ancient ruins. Our history, however short. These homes need protection a d restoration. From the biggins like these, to the tiny shaker(cracker box) houses from the 18 and 1900s, these are our great pyramids, our coloseums, and stone henges. They shsould be restored and revered. Celebrated and enjoyed. This is a human made tragedy :( To demolish smthg like this, should be a crime :(
All that space and those damn developers had to come to that exact spot and tear it down? So they can build McMansions? If I was rich, I would rather have an older, quality built house than those particle board monstrosities that come down with one good storm or tornado.
I must say you always pick out interesting videos i can tell that mansion was once a beautiful place thanks for sharing.
I feel so bad for you. That looked like a long, cold, miserable walk to the house! With a wet, frozen foot as well. Thank you for bringing this house into our homes!
My heart stopped when your foot went through the ice. Glad you're ok; stay safe out there!
I was in so much shock haha
Metoo!
Loved the history intro. That mansion looks like it was so amazing in it's day. Love the drone footage. Hey, BB, When you stepped in the icy water I immediately worried about frostbite. I was thinking that if you have a plastic bag in your backpack along with dry socks then you could put the dry sock on, then the plastic as a barrier between your sock & wet shoe. Thanks for all you do & again Congrats on 150K! Now 152K
I LOVED the bathroom! It would have gone beautifully with my house that burned down in 2014 :((( The kitchen was "cow" themed (as a tribute to my hometown of Calgary, AB Canada aka Cowtown - for the yearly Stampede there every July) the kitchen was pink/white/black with a theme worded "LIFE: the black, the white and the Udder" lol mounted in large words atop the large kitchen space, yep, these ppl decorated in my kinda theme indeed, and although I am most grateful to have a home, built in 2014 after the fire, it has zero character compared to my other home. Character homes should be preservered at all costs, whenever possible.
Sad to see a place once elegant to be demo;d, esp, such a waste.. Then to, mansion is massive & who can afford the upkeep..
This hurts my heart , all for new development . This house would have outlasted anything built today
Please tell me that they’re saving the historical building products that can be saved like wood floors, doors, windows, trim, ect. Sorry but I’m big on historical houses and saving whatever you can. A lot is on discovery+, about home restoration.
So sad 😢 it was a beautiful house wish the city could have done more with it than just tear it down.Is this going to be grounds for the new baptist hospital?
Anyone else notice when they went up stairs that fountain drink at the top was upright but when he came out of the bedroom it was knocked over?
It's a dryer rack that used to go back into the wall near the old furnace so they would dry quickly
All those cedar lined closets. Wow!
I used to live in the neighborhood behind it and all my friends would make rumors about the house and make up ghost stories about the house
Im sorry I cant watch anymore knowing it will be demolished
That mansion has (had) huge potential. Your right why would they tear down a beautiful structure with amazing history 😪
This was such a grand home. How could they tear it down? The bedrooms are huge and huge walk-in closets. Can you imagine back in its heyday with this would’ve looked like? The spiral staircase is just magnificent. I’m so glad that you were able to at least document it. I keep feeling like the house has feelings looking out and seeing what its future is going to be. Breaks my heart. 💜🤟🏻🍀😎🇺🇸
Each mansion you show has a sad story, and reminds us how short our life is, just a second in universe time. All we are is dust in the wind and nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.
My parents lived right down the road from the Madden's. It is always so sad to see these old grand homes going to waste. The Interstate wasn't close enough that this home couldn't have been saved but the land had been sold for shopping centers. Actually a very saavy business move on Anita Madden's part, she sold the land that is now Hamburg Shopping Centre' (huge) but had in the agreement that the buildings in the Centre' were leased to her for X number of years so her estate will continue to earn money off of all the businesses there. Also the Maddens are quite famous for their Kentucky Derby Eve parties, many well known politicians and celebrities came to the parties which were very very posh. Quite a history in that old house. Thanks for the video.
That's not the house where the parties were thrown is it? Ruth McKee lived there til her death and then it sat vacant from what I've read.
@@HavokJD No, I was just commenting about their notoriety for their parties, although on the same farm, not the same house.
I just hate when places like this are torn down for something that could go somewhere else. I’m sure there is someone out there that would love to have had this place and fixed it up. The stair case is BEAUTIFUL. We are destroying our history for something I feel we could use somewhere else. This is why our children don’t care anymore we are erasing history. That place just has me in 😲😊
I seen that movie and wondered if the house was a real place, great too see it was. Beautiful place
You guys have guts going in a place like that, it still looks like a horror mansion 😳
Glad y’all made it out ok!!
This was a Great Walk thru!! Thank You for doing this before it was gone forever!! Your the Best BIGBANKZ 💚💜🦋🌻
Thank you so much for this tour. What a beautiful home and such a shame it’s being torn down. This home just goes to show how rich this family was back in the day. That stair case was absolutely beautiful and that walk-in closet upstairs I noticed was lined in cedar planking that you failed to mention. Thanks again for this video tour.
I was going to say that too, those beautiful cedar lined closets were a fortune just themselves. Sad to see something so nice destroyed.
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US THIS MANSION. AND ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. I AM GLAD YOU ARE DOING ALRIGHT AFTER YOUR FOOT WENT THROUGH THAY ICE. THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A SOAKED WET FOOT. I HAVE HAD THAT EXPERIENCE MORE THAN ONCE MYSELF. BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL AND STAY SAFE. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
It’s hard to imagine living in such a massive home such as this.
Awesome video bro! Even powering through the soaking wet foot you got through! Much respect!
💜💜💜 What a grand house. Shame it's being demolished.
Thats a ginormous maids quarter
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This is my hometown, here they hate to see an empty lot for a shopping center. a new subdivision
I see you have greedy town government and developers out there as well.
It’s a shame they wouldn’t save such a marvelous structure!
@Melanie Sorry to hear.
A few towns over from me, new owners of a perfectly restored Victorian era house tore it down to build something new.
Some people suck!
Sad when people die, and the family is broken. Then everything is gone forever, thank you for sharing.
That place was huge and beautiful….sosad
This is such a beautiful home ,
I can’t believe that anyone would tear it down,
so many amazing old homes are being destroyed.
House of the witch was a good movie ~ I loved this mansion.
It makes me sick to see such a beautiful home being torn down only to be replaced by a hundred or so smaller homes
I SURE WISH PEOPLE WITH MONEY to maintain mansions LIKE THIS had a GREATER APPRECIATION for them and PREFERRED to SAVE and upgrade them without removing its character rather building this new STUFF And in an ideal world it would be illegal to demolish these for multi use purposes.. Just me WISHFUL THINKING !