The Mason's Castle - Ghost of the American Renaissance
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2012
- "The thing that fascinated me about the castle is that everybody thinks that it's haunted, that people were locked up in the courtyards...None of its true. What did strike me as very unusual is from the time that I'm able to record; no one has ever been able to live on that land. That struck me as bizarre." -- Dr. Joyce Conroy -- Historian
Read all about the castle on my blog:
www.artofabandonment.com/2011...
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Designer: How many Gothic archers would you like
Client: Yes
lol that said Yes I know the guy who bought it built it for his family, and it's absolutely fantastic and beautiful, sad the family didn't get to live there
What a hauntingly beautiful video. If only I had money...
To see such a beautiful place as this just let go to ruins makes me very sad. Thank-you for the video and awesome photography. Lyn Johnson
Breathtaking castle and photography.
If I ever lived in a place like that, my heart would ache with so much love every single day. The pictures alone are so powerful.
This is amazing video; I love the haunting music that follows the many photos of the property. Truly wonderful piece of art :)
+David Rodriguez Thank you David!
What a beautiful place the music lures you in as you watch
I dont understand how anyone could dislike this. this is beautiful, well done, quality photography of an amazing place!!!
hands down one of the best abandoned places videos I have ever seen! that shot from behind the ivy and the particle board in the sunlight...UNREAL!!!
Just beautiful! So sad it's been abandoned. Yes, the music fits perfectly with the video.
Oh mylanta! This home is beautiful, the architecture is amazing! Great photography as well..
Beautiful photography!!! Thanks for sharing this special place.
It is so sad this beautiful house fell into such disrepair! Ive always said if I won the lottery it would be mine and lovingly restored.
OMG that was the freakiest thing I've ever seen. I JUST NOW typed the same thing. I have played lotto JUST for this house for years. I look at a picture of it every day. It's my desktop photo. Then I scrolled down and saw this and my chin dropped. Tell ya what, if I ever win, I'll figure out a way to let you enjoy this beautiful home. lol even if it's just a place to vacation.
Love this. I was following an explorer and he had it all wrong about this gem. Thank you for sharing. Such beautiful architecture.
I cant. I simply just cant. The music the pictures of this amazing place the sun shining in through the beautiful windows?????? I'm bursting with awe!!!!!!
so lovely and so sad. great production, photography & music.
Your photos and the music you chose made for a heartbreaking piece.
Wow so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
It breathes of longing to be loved.
navygirlchula agreed
This video was a joy to watch! Artistic and paced beautifully, I enjoyed every moment... Just wish it had been longer and more thorough. Thank you!
My compliments! I am a photographer in the Netherlands. I love your photos. They give a perfect picture of the energy in the house. I think the editing is very nice. I love old houses with personality. Unfortunately there are no suitable houses for urban exploring in the Netherlands. This summer I'm going to Belgium in the hope to find a nice location. I wish you a lot of creativity and wisdom. Regards, Ramona
Very beautiful photography.
Would love to see this beautiful gem restored.
My heart escaped beats when I saw the gate, I dreamed of it sometime ago.
The music tho...just does something to you!
Loved it.
Would love to see the castle in real life.
this without doubt the most impressive beautifully captured castle pictures I have ever had the privlage to see thankyou
Thank very much for your kind words Janice! So glad you enjoyed my photography! Head over to my blog and ready about this history of the castle and the other places that I have photographed at: www.artofabandonment.com
janice yarosloski same and thank you
janice yarosloski it’s in upper New York
Such beautiful architecture to go by the wayside.
Hermosas fotos del interior y exterior del castillo, gracias por permitirme verlas.
such a brilliant architecture i sure hope they are preserving it
Absolutely captivating~
very excellent video, the music is haunting and sweet. I actually wept a little.....
Absolutely stunning and magnificent. It is heartbreaking to see it in its current state. I truly hope that someday that changes before it is too late. It's a treasure that deserve to be restored to all its glory. Thank you for sharing this
Spirit Magic “
The videography is stunning to say the least! The craftsmanship right down to the fine details is superb! It feel like I am in an almost dreamlike state! The shapes of the doors and their entrances mimic the window shapes! This is absolutely incredible! Thank you for exposing me to this amazing place! I will have to visit your website! My curiosity is peaked!
Glad you enjoyed! :)
Ohh, to have the money to buy, restore and maintain this beautiful and amazing home. This is an absolutely perfect video with perfect music to go with it. You definitely have me as a new subscriber! I am a new Urbex and this would be my #1 dream place to go and see. I don't think I would ever want to leave.
Beautifully done:)
Great video. I really enjoyed it!
This physically made my chest hurt. The whole "lump in the throat" thing. I've been in love with that home since the first time I saw a picture of it. It's my desktop photo at this very minute. I've looked for videos of these "explorers" who've gone into it, but never found one. When I saw the still shot of this video on my screen, my heart leaped out of my chest with anticipation. It breaks my heart to see it in such disrepair.
I think of that place so often, and wish I could persuade them to sell it, that I literally play the lotto every week, only in hopes of being able to be the person to do it. Thank you so much for these photos. There are many I've never seen before here.
Thank you for your kind words! So glad you enjoyed the video and the images. I will cross my fingers that the lotto swings your way, because I would love to see this place restored. It's become much worse in the 8 years that have passed since I photographed it. I'm pretty sure the building itself is in decent condition, but the vandals and taggers have gone in and desecrated it pretty bad from what I have heard :( Thank you again!
@@ArtOfAbandonment I just found a video from 2016. It's terrible what has happened to it. I'd love to get inside of it with a dozen gallons of paint. ua-cam.com/video/0AOafuNxiik/v-deo.html
@@waskelweewabbit1453 Funny you posted that, I just watched that same video after I responded to your comment. Yeah it's been pretty well covered in tagging. There was a little bit when I was first there, but nothing like that. Very sad to see that :(
@@ArtOfAbandonment Well, here's some good news. I found that if I searched Dundas castle, I got more videos. I just watched another one from 2018. The boys trying to record it kept having the alarm go off on them. They tried again at night & it went off right after they got out of their car on the road. So, A. they put in alarms and B. someone is there watching the place.
thank you. it needs to be restored
Beautiful!!!
Beautiful. Like so many, it's a Shame it cannot be Restored.
I'm so in love with this place
Wish I was able to afford something like this for me and all my family :)
But I'm poor :(
If I get rich this year I'll help your family out for sure, I promise
What kind of response is that? Do you know how many homeless people ended up getting themselves rich and famous? A lot. Look it up if you want. I said if I get rich this year I would treat the original posters comment above to that vacation. What is your problem? Do you have an issue with people being really nice to others for No reason. It's called karma, try it.
Me to :[
Wow what a lovely place
Well done, thanks
I think all these video again was fascinating but sad that the filmmaker, Walter or especially the Historian Joyce doesn't complete the story, and tell us about who originally owned it, how he made is fortune, what happened what happened to the family that it is still abandon today. so many questions can be added and today in this and other short films of abandoned homes. ya know.
head over to my blog www.artofabandonment.com and you can read the stories and histories of all these locations :)
Also here's a great article on the history of the land there: www.recordonline.com/article/20030516/News/305169981
@@ArtOfAbandonment Thank you so much for doing this. I didn't realize how many other people had a love of this home.
Lovely treasure. Love the details in the windows and doors. The craftsmanship is stunning. What is the music?
It is beautiful. Would be neat if someone restored it & the progress was featured on some tv show.
AWESOME most beautiful & tragic, love your photography, music most fitting & beautiful .. WHAT is the story here ? DYING to know ???
um verdadeiro espetáculo. thank
I want to go through this house. Haunted or not it's amazing. Just amazing.
This place is awesome, very well done video perfect matching music, it's just to bad that like so many great American houses it will eventually be vandalized in to nonexistence. One can say enough about the superior quality of this video.
I wish your link worked so I could learn more about it
so great video and your photos are so beautiful please tell me the song of that video.
So - why have they not been able to live on the land? Amazing place. Nice vid. =) I could see Cinderella's mice on the turret stairs. lol
beautiful
So beautiful, so sad that it is left to decay.
Oh, god. A place like this is being left to rot with no thought of finding a new use for it.
How come these are not being restored?
It always makes me wonder of that last day when the.lives there walked away
+Pamelina says, I always wonder that very same thing, Pamelina! I get so melancholy thinking how sad that must've been to be the last one to close the door on such grandness & beauty.
when was this castle built?
we are such a throw-away society. nothing lasts forever but some things enjoy the attention of being kept-up longer than others. it's sad to see such a wonderful achievement in architecture get thrown away.
Could you please give some more information on this enchanting place. First off what country is it in? What was it originally? How long has it been abandoned? Is it privately owned?
how much will buy this property
and no one has been able to live there...why??
where is it? story?
This castle was originally built to be a summer destination for a wealthy family. That family never saw the castle's completion and none of them lived in the castle even after it was completed. www.atlasobscura.com/places/craig-e-clair-castle
where is this
is it for sale?
If I was rich I would upgrade and bring everything to it's original beauty...Live in it and then when I was in another Castle, I would pay people to keep it up and tend to the beauty of the grounds and interior....
same!
Sweeeeet! I'd love to see some pictures of this beautiful babe in her heyday! She's a fine piece of architecture!
My family helped to take care of the 1500 acres that are attached to this property owned by the masons back in the early 80s.
hauntingly beautiful........does anyone know the name of the music and artist ?
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it. Song: Xibalba
Artist - Clint Mansell
Album - The Fountain OST
It does make you wonder what happened? As for why no one can live there,surely someone is looking after the estate,doesn't it go to the relatives...or to heritage place.....if cursed where is the proof ? Something doesn't sound right here 2016 and no one can buy this property,,,,it's gorgeous and going to waste most looks just cosmetic,,still looks solid,beautiful pics...i'd buy it if i could love to live in a Castle..or Lighthouse.....!!! Hope someone rescues this place soon.
The property is owned by Prince Hall Masons. The original owner died before it was finished, his wife was mentally ill and sent to a sanatorium, his only child, a girl, who's care takers robbed her blind. She married, moved to England and also ended up in a sanatorium.
Unfortunately no one is doing the upkeep on the property. It would be lovely if they did.
High Taxes ??? This would keep anyone from living on the property.
What a sin to let a place so beautiful rot!
i still find the beauty in it
I love this place , but I wonder why no one has been able to live here? And I wonder where this place is.
Oh to fairly well. If only those dreams could tell. I would live on this place of gifts.
Were there any reasons given as to why noone could live on the property?
Beautiful anyway.. Thanks for sharing...
Where is this, and tell me why no family can move in....
radiant heat the reno in what year??made to look made in what year??
+Ross Jason Boehm Lai It was built around 1908-1915 approx.
thanks
,, never know with old stone work.. watch this old house and the were in row house renoing and they were take drywall,gyp-son board down not plaster walls.. of the time..thanks again
It's a shame the link to the website doesn't work, or the website is gone. That castle is amazing!! Does anybody have any info about it! Name of castle? Location?? I'd like to research it myself.
Here's the correct! Sorry, didn't realize it was broken: www.artofabandonment.com/2011/07/dundas-castle-ghost-of-the-american-renaissance/
Dundas Castle aka Craig-E-Claire castle, I've been here, and it is beautiful, but in sad condition
From the interior shots, I'd say the house was impractical. Must have been lots of expansions over time. Noticing the huge radiators, it was a bear to heat as well.
Lovely place. Where's the restroom? :-/
this is in NY, right?
the cellings are somehow low for the castle, make rooms look smaller
Every one of them are gorgeous
What state is this in?
BUDDY LIGHT- New York
Why has such a beautiful building THE MASONS CASTLE been left to just rot away what a shame
You tell me. Where is our Government?. Playing cards?. I should send a letter to Obama about this.
JBL G LOL! Obama.
It's a neat relic of someone's long lost dream I suppose. Built by a very wealthy Mr. Dundas who died before it was completed. As for his wife and daughter... that's another story. I've been there before. It's not too far from my family summer house. It's an interesting place. It's been owned by an African American offshoot of the Masons for as long as I can remember. Probably as a sign of prestige in that one might say we own a "castle". lol But that's about it. They tried to use it as a "summer camp" for their kids at one point in time. But aside from building a campfire in the courtyard, and hanging a sign by the road that said "Camp .....", that's about the only investment they made in the property. They never had the money to do anything more with it as far as fixing it up. Nor will they ever. So there it sits. An empty shell.
***** As for the "castle" itself... Like I said, it's a neat place... But it's not what you might expect. There are no grand halls with towering ceilings, etc. A lot of rooms, but no high ceilings. And one end of the place doesn't lead to the other end. I don't think there was ever a "master plan" to the construction. I know it changed multiple times, for what reasons I don't know. Rich and bit eccentric that's what sometimes happens I suppose. lol
+Matthew Jandecka More often than not, that's exactly what it was. The builders had more money than taste. These were the trophy homes of their time.
True.
+Matthew Jandecka Like you, my family too had a wknd. house not too far from Dundas Castle. I remember going there on "archaeological" digs w/ cousins. Alas no loot for me but good memories. Time to call the cousins & head back there!
Who owns it
I was in there A couple of times and people wrote their names on the wall.Its a beautiful castle.Its sad people put graffiti on the walls.😢
I believe there are pink marble floors in there.The floors are so dirty I couldn't tell.
If you want to know the story, I found it on:
artofabandoment.com
So there's no other distant family members?
I think there's a curse on that castle somehow. It sounds like a curse is supposed to do. Castle or not, living in the middle of nowhere can drive some people insane. Also, someone who is mentally fragile only needs a small push from some sort of oppressive event to drive them to insanity. Since poor mental health can be hereditary, the trauma of losing a family member can be enough to affect both mother and daughter. A lot of families kept these issues private, as anyone was allowed to have anybody committed to an asylum. We have seen the way mental illness was handled back then, so we can understand why this would not be readily admitted by anyone.
I wish several of us could put money into restoration and live there. There seems to be enough room for at least 100 people.
I'm frustrated. We still don't know WHY nobody could live on that land. Maybe she meant everybody who lived on that lad died shortly thereafter. That's even spookier.
WOW! Just WOW!
Someone sent me a message "can you describe the man". Yes he is White with brown hair growing silver around the edges. He has on a hat like older style but mostly almost German looking. He has on boots like for gardening and tweed pants brown color and a coat like a country Jacket or something again you might see in the older times looks again northern French or German. He is about 45 years old or 50. He has a mostly shaved face looks like he smoked. His shovel looks modern. He doesn't like dogs either they bark at him. The Women upstairs in the more female rooms is White with dark brown hair up for the time period and she has a dark looks almost like an indoor riding jacket and long skirt the same material with black high button boots. She is wearing lace for a shirt under her jacket that is high to the neck also. It is buttoned up. Those older homes are cold in the winter time. She looks about 35 years old not skinny not fat very nice to look at pleasing. She is in love.... but I don't see who she is in love with..... you know they get a glow or new motherhood they have a glow she has that. She walks the upper floors I don't know why. He looks like he spends a good time outside keeping kids and people and dogs off the property. I tried to talk to them and what I heard was they are trying to save the house because in the future someone will buy it they hope and bring it back to life. They call themselves the house lovers so they guard the house waiting for someone to love it like they do. I think they are expecting someone they expect not just anyone to buy the house. I don't know what kind of arrangement that could be? So I don't see children..... which I expected to see in the little girl rooms...... I don't see servants either. I think someone may have died to they abandoned the house too hard to live without their loved ones. That is what he looks like his hair is short cut like these days style not long in the back. Interestingly beautiful house. I wonder who they want to buy the house? They both look American in Genetics and style. Except their older European style clothes which was just the wold time period cloths. Thanks for the lovely video. Oh I hear singing in the picture with the long hall with part of the hall wall cut short looking through the pointed door down the hall. Singing and skipping but of a women doing it...... light comes in through the hall windows and doors on the other side. It looks happy in sound. Lovely feelings in the hall. So at one time it had a family that lived their happily. Grace
Grace Serena Christie Hello, Please tell me, are you a visual physic ?
Arnot517,
Hi I am several types of psychic. I do have trouble with time when I look at TV or movies, or videos even if I am there I do see several time periods at the same time. So I use it to solve murders I can see a lot. But..I am out of body a lot hard to see body world out of body. But if I look at several time periods at once then out of body then remote view double check then I am right in past and accurate mostly in the future. It is called clairvoyance I have to go back to that time a lot to get hearing. Clairaudiace . OK everyone can do that it is a God given talent just ask and received! Claira Grace
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I would live there
What I don't understand is why didn't someone inherit this mega castle ?
+Cindia Hudson Ralph Dundas passed away shortly before the castle was completed. After that his wife killed herself, and his daughter was mentally unstable and was institutionalized. His whole family basically fell apart after his death.
+Walter Arnold - makes you wonder what it is built on
+Walter Arnold no wonder people think it's haunted
or for what...
Turn down the music a notch, we can't hear you x)
My mother received a letter for next of kin for the mason castle but It got destroyed in a fire. If the owner now of the castle sees this please contact me .