BEAUTIFUL Packed Abandoned 200 year old Mansion *Filled w/ ANTIQUES
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2023
- This historical old house was built in the early 1800’s. It would remain in the same family for over a century until the final descendants of the family and elderly widow donated all the land too the town for hiking trails and parks as hiking was favorite past time of hers. Hopefully the house is aged and restored for future generations just glad I could document this old place on film. Thanks for watching
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Structurally this house appears to still be in relatively good shape . No water damage from leaky roof or water in the basement . This house could still be saved and restored. Great explore Kappy.
Well said! Really is just the busted out windows and some cosmetic stuff! In great shape! Thank you for watching!! :)
Same exact thought
The structure/beams etc. are rock solid! This will be an incredibly beautiful renovation with respect to it's time period/history.
Someone please save this place! Gorgeous 😊
How glorious she must have been. Thanks Kappy.
Blown away from the minute you stepped inside. A wonderful house.
That’s definitely a place to be saved.
I love that house so cool too bad its abandoned wish it could've been saved i enjoy watching your videos so interesting thank you for sharing
That huge brick fireplace is gorgeous!!!
Wow this is awesome the first out building was a smoke house the walls are black thanks for sharing many blessings and keep safe
Oh my gosh oh my gosh! The kitchen windows! The wide hallways, tall ceilings, I love this one!
I wish that you would have shown more of the outer building instead of just being at the doorways.
I love this old house, the big fireplace was nice and the arch one was different. This house had a lot of character. I think this place could be saved. Thanks for sharing what you did. Please take your time, not so fast, showing us around these places. 🤗🤔🧐
Definitely top 5!!!! I loved it Kappy, thank you ❤
Thank you for watching!! :)
Absolutely beautiful house. Normally not a fan of this style but the interior won me over. She so needs to be saved. She is not that far gone. I would do it in a minute. Thanks for this one. ❤
Some more history, left to dissolve into time as we scratch our heads and marvel. This one has some noble and classy signatures about her. At one time, someone was, not only capable and prosperous, but ambitious. Again we see that that's not hereditary, especially as society changes and politics rules our environment. But the history is there to remind us how talented and busy were our earlier counterparts. What a difference 100 years make. Can America survive? TY for the tour, Kappy. They sure knew how to build them back then!
These old houses are so beautiful. I wish they still made them. Today's houses are ugly.
And not built near as well as this one! 😔
The older this country gets the more tragic it looks.
Kappy, you've documented some houses that have restoration potential but this old gem could be restored and updated. I hope someone is going to get to work on this house. I wish I had the money to do it. From the old kitchen when you first walked in that had the 1848 oven in the brick wall to the Rumford style fire places throughout the house the entire house has "character" and historical features throughout. What an amazing house.
Totally Agree,This house Looks Solid
Very well said!! I couldn’t agree more!! Great observations!! Have some even cooler ones on the way! Thank you for the kind words and watching! :)
They definitely built that house to last!
Thank you Kappy; This is my new favorite. I wish I was rich.
Me too! Thank you very much for watching!! :)
What a place of beauty. So hope those developers stay away & some one restores it, will be so worth it..
I can only imagine what the stair rails & Newell posts looked like !
WOW!! What a GORGEOUS home! Not even hardly any dust on the photographers "set ups". I wish someone would do something with the windows. Definitely deserves to be put in the "top 10" category!
The craftsmanship of these old homes are incredible. The first home had such good bones and could really be fixed up nice. It’s sad to see so many gorgeous homes go to waste and the land is so valuable it’s crazy. 😢
The house seems to have good bones. Someone is having fun playing around in it. It probably could be restored if they have money.
The "bones" of this old house seemed to be pretty sturdy compared to many of the other houses you have featured. It is a shame that someone doesn't refurbish this beautiful house before it is too late. It seems odd to me that someone would bring in all of those pieces of furniture, pictures and other items for a photo shoot and then just leave them all there when they were finished. Thanks for sharing, this is one of my favorites so far!
So glad you enjoyed!! Thank you very much for watching!! :)
Hello Kappy, I'm glad to see that you made it through that bramble forest to get to this lovely old house!
Did you notice the metal doors leading to the cellar to the right of the door you used to enter the house, Kappy? They could have been in case of inclement weather or to deliver coal. I almost missed them, but as I watch each of your videos as many as ten times, I noticed those doors and thought I'd mention them. I guess we'll find out later on.
Well, they've left the door open for you! It seems that a visitor left a brand new basket (looks like a purse?) on the shelf by the open door! It's too shiny and new to have been there for very long.
There may well have been a cow or two lodging in that front room, as we've seen a few times before. The small door to the left might indicate that there was a dog coming and going at will into and out of this house.
That little room with the built-in cabinets does seem like it was a small kitchen or maybe even a pantry. The white-painted rafters in the large room are amazing and quite old. The fireplace is lovely and it even has its own bread oven! That cast iron trim on that does help to date this house. The fireplace can't have been built before 1848. Good eye, Kappy! The recessed place behind the white wingback chair may have been for firewood. Quite a handy addition to a busy kitchen!
I've learned quite recently that rooms such as this large one with the big fireplace aren't always kitchens, but are sometimes called "keeping rooms" and are usually adjacent to the kitchen. The purpose of a keeping room was to allow cooking to go on while the cook was "keeping company" with guests, who often stayed to share the meal and visit into the evening or perhaps spend the night.
I do like the built-in cabinets in the large kitchen! How lovely they would have been, filled with the family's collection of china, crystal and silver serving pieces! The timbers in the ceiling give it such a homey touch! How pretty this room is! It was doubtless designed by the hand of a woman who knew her way around a kitchen!
You're absolutely right, Kappy, in that this house has definitely been staged by someone, probably whoever left their basket. It's so weird that the photographer went to all the trouble to stage the place and the leave all their stuff behind! Some of the items they've used are quite valuable, so I'll just bet they're coming back. It could even be that you interrupted their work! Or perhaps they left in such a hurry that they didn't care about their valuable antiques! Beware of slamming doors or thumps that aren't buzzards, Kappy! 👻
Those pictures on the walls are ribbon embroidery pieces. The needleworker uses sheer ribbon rather than thread to create designs of flowers. It's difficult to do, but very pretty when stitched properly.
This house is very stately, even bordering on being a manor, with all the beautiful millwork, towering windows and many pocket doors, not to mention the finely finished timbers in the front room with its gorgeous and carefully finished brick fireplace. There was a lot of money invested in this house, to be sure, and my mind easily furnishes its rooms with elegant china, glittering crystal and shining pewter, along with pieces of fine furniture and fascinating bric-a-brac from various lands. These people were American gentry and not just country folk. I wish we knew their history and family connections. I wonder what the name of this beautiful home and its accompanying real estate is. Surely, a house this grand was given a name.
Even our own humble property with its cozy bungalow was given a proper name. We live at Primrose Corner, named for the wealth of wild pink primroses which bloom riotously in every nook throughout the spring and early summertime.
The earlier construction of this house may have been quite simple, as indicated by the arched fireplace. The more elegant dwelling was probably constructed after the family had accumulated sufficient surplus of funds to build a more gracious and comfortable home, along with acquiring the servants needed to keep it operating properly.
I can easily imagine this house in its glory, with much beautiful wallpaper or painted plaster walls and rich draperies at its sparkling windows. The (probably enslaved) servants were kept busy in the kitchen and in keeping the house ready at all times for the guests who would revel in a visit.
There was a lot of graffiti in the other section of the house, in nearly every room. It was painted over, apparently by the photographers. Traces of it are still visible on the walls behind the dark grey paint.
Over the small red covered table in the dining room there is some remarkable wallpaper still visible. It dates from the very late eighteenth to very early nineteenth century. It shows delicate garlands of leaves with little birds fluttering among their blossoms. Kappy panned across the table and then upward. It was then that I caught a glimpse of the mesmerizing wallpaper. Perhaps those of us who love wallpaper can catch a glimpse of its beauty, protected by plaster and unfaded.
What an imposing front door! It's a pity that some idiot splashed a bucket of blue paint on it, marring but not hiding its magnificence. Such a lovely welcoming foyer is waiting inside the door, its spacious width filled with light streaming from windows on the upper floor. It is simply breathtaking! The wallpaper on these walls, like that on the ceiling, is a much later addition. What a pity the banister and its styles are missing. Oh well, our imaginations can replace them! Here is another room showcasing more of the masterfully crafted millwork which fills each room of this house! How lovely, yet an odd counterpoint to the coarse, primitive beauty of the fireplace with its arched opening.
Well, at least it appears that there was an artist in the group of vandals who sought to besmirch this house's undeniable beauty. That portrait of a young woman which engulfs the fireplace, mantel and all, is quite well done and very attractive.
Oh! There is another arched brick fireplace in this room! It is so hidden by the portrait of the lady that it could easily be overlooked.
I wonder if this is an older section of the house or simply the domicile of a bohemian artist who liked Southwestern architecture. We will not know, only guess. So we've completed a circle through this wonderful house's lower level! It looks like there's nowhere to go but upward, so let's go, gang!
These upstairs mantle pieces and fireplaces are very pretty and show again the hand of a master carpenter. I'm glad they haven't been salvaged, though the hands of vandals lay very heavily on these rooms. Large holes in doors and walls speak of youthful strength and energy wasted on vandalism. What a pity it could not be better utilized!
How interesting is the design of the wall beside the entry door, curving around to the closet door. Several of the rooms feature this curved wall and it is so feminine, I think those must be ladies' bedrooms.
It's a wonder that the attic is completely unfinished. How much more room it would add to the house if only that immense void were turned into additional rooms!
Now, to solve the riddle of the lost stairway. Oh! It goes to the section of the house over the would be cow/dog pen! What a nice place to sleep! Don't count sheep, just sheepdogs! Anyway, it appears that this disconnected section of the house may have been the older part of the house. This theory is supported by the presence of what appear to be King's boards in the floors of this section of the house. It may not have been connected to the newer section to mitigate the damage from any possible fire.
As it was customary in those times for unmarried ladies' and gentlemen's accommodations to be kept quite separate, it could have been used for that purpose, as a guesthouse of sorts. It could also have provided (and was probably used for) excellent servants' quarters, though the discovery of a set of workers' apartments among the outbuildings makes this situation unlikely.
Now for the basement. That's a big coal radiator, Kappy. This explains the coal chute metal doors near the open door you entered at first.
The basement is quite interesting in its own right. The different rooms could have been used to store food or dry goods, as well as wine. It is befitting such grandeur upstairs and reminiscent of the basement of the mighty and magnificent Biltmore House of Asheville, North Carolina.
Outbuildings! How fun! Good on you, Kappy, for knowing the difference between handmade and manufactured bricks!
That's probably originally a carriage house, being used for the motorcars which came later.
I've never seen worker's quarters quite like those. They're like apartments and quite interesting.
All in all, Kappy, this house goes straight to the Very Best of Kappy's Videos playlist. The house is very well preserved, graffiti notwithstanding, and could be restored without touching the million dollar mark. It could offer a fascinating look into the life of an eighteenth and nineteenth century gentleman farmer. The out buildings could be used as exhibits of period handicrafts, such as pottery making, basket weaving, quilting, weaving of cloth and woodworking. What a marvelous historical opportunity!
Good on you, Kappy! You've really brought us a great house this time! I daresay this manor would rival Monticello or Mount Vernon, if only it were properly restored.
Thanks so much for ferreting this one out for us. I don't know how you do it, but you've got the touch!
I can hardly wait to see what you come up with next, courageous explorer! I know it will be something wonderful because I know your determination to keep up your reputation as the best, bravest, most informative and honorable explorer of them all.
Happy trails, Kappy! We'll see you soon! Love from Tennessee.
Love this find! I really like the ‘Photographers staged items’! You can really feel that this is a home and someone loves this house, and made it feel welcoming and homey! I can see a photographer taking pics of a ‘bride to be’ in this setting.
Glad you enjoyed!! Thank you very much for watching!! :)
What a gorgeous old Federalist farm house! Sin to let it go to rack and ruin.
These r the Houses I love to see❤
I don't know why I find these video's sad. I guess watching them is a reminder or our own mortality. People or families live their entire lives in a home. Then, they pass on leaving the home abandoned. All those generations of people who lived and died in that home. Let's hope they all enjoyed happy lives.
Seems like there is always money for all sorts of insane uses, but never any for historical restorations! Cool house
This house was in such good shape compared to others I've seen here. I firmly believe the roof has saved this place.
Awesome house!!!!! I wish I was a millionaire!!! Thank you Kappy!!
Me too! I’d love too save one of these houses someday! Can dream haha! Thank you for watching!! :)
@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 A worthwhile dream!!! You’re still young enough to make it happen 😁
Look at all that lead paint peeling off the doors. Beautiful home at one time. Thanka for the great video Kappy.
A grand home indeed..so sad to see it rot away..every time I watch your video...i wish I was wealthy..I would fix these houses ...a huge part of our history..fading away...never can they be replaced...thank you Kappy for a great documentation!
This house is very salvageable & beautiful. Someone should save it! Thanks for sharing! I enjoy your videos!😊
SO much to love about this house! One of my all-time favorites, for sure.
This house is magnificent! It seems just enormous, and so open and airy with hardly anything inside except for the odd photo shoot setups. It feels like it would have been a lovely place to live. I wish we still had quality construction like these old homes had. Beautiful.
Well said! The saying is true, they really don’t build them like they used too! Don’t have the same materials anymore! Thank you for watching!! :)
I’ve been to many lighthouses and this house on the inside looks like it could be a museum. The floors are well kept. Just a little clean up and wow. Thank you for showing us. Be blessed
Wow! Very empty! I love the layout of that house!
The woodwork( the moldings & baseboards were magnificent! What a place that must have been!!! Thanks for posting this!
That house is worth saving. You are correct about the large fireplace and the smaller rooms not directly connected to the house. It does look like someone did some photo shoots in the rooms.
Love the land...seems very peaceful
A massive beautiful home!
Beautiful house. Really needs to be saved. One of the biggest fireplaces I have ever seen. Agree about maybe the servants quarters. Thanks for the tour. ❤❤❤
Very neat house. Love the details remaining. Those floorboards. That outdoor tenant house a rare treat. Thanks for the tour!
Thank ya for the kind words and watching!! :)
It makes me so sad to see this old house. It must have been beautiful. I think the part with the separate staircase was the original house which was then added on to as their wealth increased. Love your videos Kappy!
Yes I agree this house appears structally solid I think it should definitely be restored the third building must have been the sevants quarters for the family
A wish house. Wish I had the $ to restore this house & buildings.
We can almost still hear the laughter of the children as they run through the hallway....This is my most favorite period of American home. We should remember when these homes were built they had no telephone radio or television or any distraction , working on a house like this as they did their daily chores was a combination of lifestyle of God , work, and entertainment.
It's amazing what a crew of workers could do to this place
Not very often that one sees an old place like this with neat stuff left behind and then to have it cleaned up a bit and arranged for urbex photographers who really did a nice job of it. I enjoyed it so much more than if everything would have been thrown in piles like some places. It had a charm that truly was refreshing.
Thanks Kappy for videoing another great house! Good to see that someone cares about it and cleaned it up, if only for an art project! hopefully it has a chance of being restored.
What a beautiful old home! I feel so sorry for it…it deserves so much better🥹
It is so odd to see “new” things staged there… a dramatic contrast. Thank you, Kappy. I appreciate that you see the beauty.
Great beautiful house love everything about this house great video kappy can't wait to see next one.
Love these old houses you manage to find & film! This one was esp cool! Thank you for the tour! :-)
What a great place! Love that first fireplace. Some nice wallpaper in there too. Would take a small fortune to restore all that but would be so worth it. Place is really solid and i didnt see any
water damage. Thanks, Kappy
This is a gorgeous old huge roomed n fireplaces just would've been grandeur in its day, love it..🥰 🥰
Good Saturday morning Kappy & Miss Ruby..
have fun Kappy, be safe
🫂 thankyou for taking us all along on ur adventures 💕
What a beautiful house and land with all the outbuildings. You find some great properties Kappy!!!
Too kind of you too say! Have some even better ones on the way! Thank you for watching!! :)
I love some of those historical homes, I would love to restore some of them.
Wow! It’s beautiful!
I'm so glad you take pictures of the scenery. It makes that house even more special!!!
I swear EVERYTIME I see these cool places, I end up wishing I was rich like bill gates or someone like that; I would DEFINITELY USE my means to help people, but also use $$ to restore some of these cool places!
Yeah. I understand how you feel.
This is still a grand old house and has lots of potential. I wonder if they have a community center? I believe the building shown around 18:46 to have been the smokehouse. That building has wonderful post and bean construction. Thanks again for another fun adventure !
If I can make a suggestion, can you maybe do a “walk around” the houses that appear to be “ added on to”, so maybe we can figure out what part of the house was the first house?
Oh, I like your idea. I was wondering if what Kappy thought was 'servants' quarters /staircase, might not have been the first phase of the building that was expanded into the bigger 'mansion.' Funny how many questions arise as to timelines as you study these structures.
Third Man Records is Jack White's recording label! That turntable and vinyl LP is worth a LOT of money. It is a limited release...
(Edit: I was so happy to know you are familiar with Jack White!!)
I noticed that too!! I loved the white stripes! Shocked me too see it just sitting there!? Thank you for watching!! :)
Hey Kappy! That place is beautiful. Even with the phony staging! Wallpaper is nice. Lots of special extras too. Thanks for always coming thru with the best explores! Be safe! ✌️
Thank you very much for the kind words and watching!! :)
I’m so glad to see a house that isn’t trashy and dirty.
Oh Kappy! One of my favs so far! Def was staged but that just added to the charm. Thanks again!!
Wow, that's a cool house. The fireplaces, plank floors, and intricate moldings. Wonder what it cost to build? A lot of care went into it then. Wish someone cared now. Thanks. Kappy-great, as always!
That's all you need is a fireplace, a lamp, chair,TV and some music.😊👍
I was pleasantly surprised at how clean it was o the inside. Someone please save this home!
Urban Exploring With Kappy thanks for sharing this video with me about BEAUTIFUL Packed Abandoned 200 year old Mansion *Filled w/ ANTIQUES it must of been a real good old farm land for a long time until they passed away and i can't wait to see your next video and God Bless.
Hi Kappy. Seems like the neighborhood kids kept that home nice &neat. Simple but beautiful home. Have a great weekend
Hola Kappy! Thanks for all of your groovy films. Love the old pads you come upon. I see all of these beautiful vacant pads and I think if only I could give one of those old places life again by moving in, I'd no longer be homeless. Im not actually homeless, but I don't have a home. 😢. Makes me so sad to see these places wadtimg away with nobody to care for them. That poem about Grandma reminded me of me. 😢 God bless you, Kappy, and thanks for all you do for those of us who wished we could do it too, but too old now.
Some one should save that beauty!
I love this place! What a great find!
Another awesome 😎👍 find I think those photographers even cleaned it
Nice secluded house with beautiful woods around it.
What a beautiful old home. It’s sad that the first floor mantels have been stolen and people have graffitied the place. I think she has good bones, I wish I could save her. ❤
It almost looks as if someone has used this house to stage photography shoots.
It's amazing what a crew of workers could do to this place.
There is nothing sadder than to watch the decay of homes who once were housed with families that they loved and provided life for. Houses are alive, their very wood absorbing the energy of the lives lived there. There is no more tragic waste than this. In my eyes they should all be saved. I especially love the Gothic home and the one with the Octagon Tower. Though I'd pass on none of them.
Beautiful
I loved this glorious old house, whoever did the installations made the rooms look so beautiful and simply adding one vase of flowers to a delelict room made a massive impact. Full of character, this must have once been spectacular, will add this to my ever increasing list of favourites❤
It looks like someone recently used the house to either shoot a video or a photoshoot and just left the props behind, the large picture of the black child on the wall was beautiful and the painter has a lot of talent.
Amazingly the floors in a lot of the house was clean …a few were kinda dirty…and alot of furniture and stuff was surprisingly nice and organized which makes me wonder if someone or a family might be squatting there in warmer temperatures. The antiques are gorgeous while it looks like some updated furniture is there also. Amazing home thank you again Kappy ❤
The part of the house that’s not connected must have been the servant’s quarters. You’d need a lot of servants just to keep all of those fireplaces stoked.
This has to be one of my favorite homes yet!
I love this house. I hope it will be restored.
Thank you so very much showing the world to these beautiful old homes. But gee I would have one of them in a heart beat. ❤️
While you are walking room to room I see myself decorating it and living in it. Beautiful old house. And so many other abandoned great houses at the end of your video. Amazing and sad at the same time. Thanks for the tour.
atta boy kappy ... another nice one ! always appreciate the basements ! its the foundation of the house !!!!!
What a great house! It certainly looks like it could be restored.I hope someone will.The other houses and scenery were wonderful too.I wonder what the history of that area is,
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I sure hope some one revives this house, it looks to be structurally sound. Some of the wood working is beautiful!! Very cool old house! Thanks for sharing Kappy!! Stay safe, Peace, Kim ~
I agree, thats a photographers house. Shame it wasnt restored it so beautiful. Sad to see all these old beauties gone by the way side 😢
Beautiful old home. Thank you for another great tour Kappy!
I love the front porch. !! And just look at that fireplace 😳!! And those beams in the ceiling😳!! Such a pretty front door also !! That door way for the Pocket Doors was amazing !! I believe that this old home deserves another chance at life such a solid old home . I just love the detail on the overhang and above the windows !! Just shows how beautiful these old homes were made great video as always Kappy !!
Another great find. 🥰
Beautiful old house, I love the big bedrooms.
I don't know where or how you find these old girls but I'm sure glad you do. Lots of them are going back to nature, sassy thing that Mother Nature is. This one had graffiti but at least most of the tagging was pretty. Looked to me like there were several photo op set up. Another great one Mr Kappy! Thanks for taking me along!
Thank you very much for the kind words and watching! I really appreciate it!! :)
My favorite thus far.
Neat personality in the design of this home. LOVE the outbuildings! What an interesting history!