A Mid-Restoration Tour Of The Charles S. Brown House With The 2nd Empire Strikes Back
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2021
- Meet a man who passionately fights for his small piece of North St. Louis history, one week at a time....
Special thanks to Kaleb and everyone at "The 2nd Empire Strikes Back" UA-cam channel.
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"A Mid-Restoration Tour Of The Charles S. Brown House With The 2nd Empire Strikes Back"
Filmed December 2017, January 2019, March 2020, May, October 2021
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Original Public Release: November 30th, 2021
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My favorite thing isn't even on the tour, it's when my brain clicked and realized that in 1904, during the World's Fair, this house was up and running in its full glory! I wonder if Mr. Brown's family took a streetcar to the Fair? Or maybe he was chauffeur-driven in one of those new fangled horseless carriages? It gives me chills! 😇 Meet me in St. Louis, Kaleb & Kim, meet me at the Fair! Don't tell me the lights are shining anywhere but there 🌟😇🌟
We do know that Hall and Brown actually had an exhibit in the Palace of Machinery at the Fair.
I follow Caleb's journey since his First post on UA-cam, and i love to see his excitment to show his house everytime, and his dedication to restore this beautiful mansion
And I thought my “restoration” of my 1927’s house was a lot of work…
Kudos to Kaleb. This place is awesome. Hopefully more will be saved.
Did you restore it to 1920s style or made it another cooky cutter house
It had been “modernized” in the 1950s so all that is gone. I’ve reintroduced all the original style mounding. There is a place in STL which still makes it to 1920s spec. This includes mounding around all windows as well as baseboard. The bathroom is back to 1920s marble and I was able to salvage the original 1927 tub. The floors and stained glass are all original. The kitchen is new but a more traditional / timeless style. With the exception of the paint schemes, I bet the original owner would recognize most of it.
Kaleb and Kim have done great work in this home. I'm so excited for them. Thanks for sharing their work!
Agreed, and I appreciate them "resto-modding" it rather than remodel. It's destined to become another Campbell House or the like, thanks to these folks, and I hope they encourage others. Getting to make this film is a proud moment for me and Kaleb was very kind to oblige with a great energetic performance and I enjoyed my visit so much. Thank you for checking out my film take on their story.
As a St Louis native, I appreciate all the love of restoring a historic home / mansion, as I am too subscribed to. The empire strikes back channel, I love the beauty in the details of older homes, specially here in the north side of downtown St. Louis, there is much more to restore there, so, maybe some more people can appreciate the landscape of this area... amazing homes, it's just ashame the city gets a bad deal for criminals and the stupid stuff they do.. Go STL Forever!!
I just can't get enough of this house! It is soo beautiful and Kaleb and Kim are just awesome! 🙌🏼
Caleb is a wonderful hard worker person❤
Nice to see a tour of Kaleb's house on another channel!
Thank you Caleb for this tour it shows how much work you have done since the beginning. God bless you and Kim🙏🙋🏼😇💓
What you said about my Great Great Grandfather Charels sounds about right. He Started in New York and moved to Missouri. He didn't do so good in Missouri. There was no money to be made there and found better money and employment in New Jersey selling species of woods and making specialty wood items, cabinet, doors, stair cases, some furniture and moldings. That is why the Brown(E)'s moved out of Missouri. What I heard was he moved to Missouri because it was quite, beautiful scenery. "What the heck was he thinking???" There was nothing in Missouri back in the 1800'S! He did okay in New Jersey for a while until the Great Depression and went bankrupt. "WE POOR!" Family business gone! I was born and raised in New York. Lot of the Brown(E)'s still live in New York and New Jersey except for Micheal Browne in Onterio, Canada who owned a Kitchen Supply factory and sold it to CHINA in 2017😡! Not happy with him! He is now the richest Browne and a traitor. Love the tour of my Great/Great grandfathers old house in Missouri. I can't wait to see it restored. If you ever get a chance to goto New York visit the Browne Mannor in New York City and take a tour. Learn about some of the Brown(E) family. If you ever get a chance to goto Dutchess County, New York there are several old massions and 2-3 President's houses, and the Vanderbuilt Summer home in Hyde Park New York you can tour. President Woodrow's house was restored back in the 1980's, it was a difficult restoration due to paranormal activities. Some of the construction workers wouldn't go back to finnish their work.😬
I think you have the wrong Charles S Brown.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack Why do you say that, Did I mess up again?
@@richardbrowne1217 The Browns are buried in St. Louis. He shows their graves in an early episode on his channel.
Im in THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS....but my Paternal precious Grandmother was fr Missouri!!💜💜💜🙏🙏🌲🎁🎁🎁i think its abusolutle y wonderful what you are doing......preserving a lovely lovely home....so well made.......
I've seen those shutters in the Pabst mansion here in Milwaukee. They were in an upstairs billiards room.super cool..
There are shutters like that in the Henry Clay Estate, Ashland, in Lexington too. I can swoon at how lovely those type of shutters are. Jelly that Kaleb and Kim have a set too.
I subscribe to Kaleb and Kim's channels. I never tire of a house tour lol
I think this is the first time I’ve seen an aerial shot of the house from that height, I don’t remember seeing a full shot of the roof before. Surprised to see it’s painted white.
That's not paint. It's TPO, which is a rubber covering. Under that is a new layer of insulation.
Thanks for having Kaleb on your channel! I've followed him since the beginning of his channel. He loves the history and handiwork of the late 19th Century and is such a wealth of information. Some of us were clearly born in the wrong century. ❤️
Oh it was a pleasure and an honor. He is over 265 times more subscribed right now and very nice to give this nano channel his time. I hope there is some benefit from this film to him, I feel like I'm getting all the reward and attention right now thanks to him (and his dad.) I like how the interior tour is a comprehensive overview of the story so far in a single unbroken 26 minute shot. What you see is Kaleb non-stop explaining everything in the ONLY take. He did it like a pro, I just did my best to catch it reasonably well on camera. That was my idea behind the film, and from my view it worked out incredibly well and I'm quite happy with it.
Thank you for watching my film on this great story.
PS- If Kaleb was in their century, we wouldn't have him to keep the house alive THIS century. ;)
I watch Kaleb's channel all the time. AMAZING work he's doing to restore this absolute beauty of a home. It's not just a house to be restored, but it will be a home AND a time capsule I'm sure with it's rich history and the love and work Kaleb and Kim have put into it and friends of his with supporters who have assisted with history, artifacts, useful components that speak to the age of the home and its original beauty. Kudos indeed to Kaleb for all the work he's put into this. Amazing indeed.
I think the "Old Girl" feels the Love you and Kim work hard to give....
Stay Strong until she's stunning ❤️
Kaleb I enjoyed the tour! Thank you for sharing! Are you SURE you'll be done in 5 years!?!?!?!? LOL
I think he'll have it mostly done by then, it will never truly be done done for more than a few months. I wonder what he'll restore for content once this house is all sorted?
@@Dozenspeed We will continue fixing up the neighborhood somehow. Another house maybe?!
The color of the wood is spectacular.
I follow Kaleb's channel. I just love is passion for these gorgeous homes. I'm excited for them both.
I concur. Thanks for watching my outsider's documentation of their project, cheers.
What a gorgeous house! So happy you're restoring it!
Love to see these being saved!
I’ve been watching your channel for a while but this is the first time I’ve been able to actually visualize how the house might look in the future. Thanks for the tour. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mrs Brown might play you a lovely song in happiness for the love you put in her house.
Now that's! an interesting idea :-)
It's going to be beautiful but so much work! Good luck! God help you!
Thanks for showing kaleb house it’s people like him that love to save history.Thanks again
Удивительно красивый дом !Хочется увидеть его во всём великолепии .Мир вашему дому , благополучия , хорошую жизнь в доме .
Обязательно подпишитесь на канал The 2nd Empire Strikes Back (ссылка в описании), чтобы следить за всей историей, начиная с лета 2020 года, вплоть до текущих еженедельных эпизодов! Это конкретное видео представляет собой документацию по функциям, которую я сделал для своего канала и состоялся в октябре 2021 года, незадолго до того, как они действительно запустили электрическую проводку. Я думаю, что эта статья предлагает хороший подробный общий тур по дому до определенного момента, который мы уже прошли, но, надеюсь, будет неплохо вернуться к нему в будущем. Приветствую и спасибо за то, что посмотрел мой "немного внешний вид" этой великой истории о воскресении.😃
This is a really good overview of Kaleb’s house! Well done.
Thank you for the fine compliment Amy, it means a lot. :)
Thanks for that complete tour! More amazing than I initially thought - both this old beauty, and you! You truly a talented guy, and you deserve a lot of respect, and credit for restoring a small piece of this countries history!
As you age that house will began to bother you by it’s size.. it’s truly beautiful the work you’ve talked about seems intense. Best of luck with your project
This is great, I've been subbed to him for quite some time, but seeing the house with a different lens makes me appreciate the house even more, it looks a lot bigger here
YES! Finally some garage time! It’s so cool
See the house often, as a sub to the channel. But I took the tour again. I just love the house and the journey. ❤🤍💙
saw those type of indoor shutters that fold into the wall in Scotland when we lived there. They were fairly common, relatively speaking in victorian era places. Our "flat" had them in downtown Edinbugh had them.
Beautiful Library.
So beautiful.
My gosh the dining room floors were beautiful
Then shutters fold into themselves like that this is a beautiful home and I’m so glad I stopped by to find this video this was a great video and a great time hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie I love architecture in old homes thank you so much
So many BEAUTIFUUL orig features......incredible....& you've. Done sooo much work too......🙏🙏💜💜💜💜
So glad this came up...been missing yall......soo nice Happiest of HOLIDAys.... So beautiful
Nice to see how wonderful the woodwork now looking the doors I last saw you both stripping them of years of paint. Well done love your understanding of stone to many destroy it by painting
Wow! It is coming along nicely! Good job! It is really starting to shine!
I am invested in your project!
Sorry I bumped done. I hate to see old homes and mansions falling to decay. 😩 Wish you could have saved the original tub 😔. Keep up the good work👍.
The Charlie Brown mansion lookin good…a little disappointed in a lack of Peanuts Gang involvement 😉 Have a blessed 2022 all.
I forget which one it was, but another old house restoration channel that I watch talked about the fact that they tried to steam the wallpaper off of the original wallpaper and actually ended up damaging the original wallpaper so definitely look more into that, for the sake of preserving your own walls!
ps. absolutely love how enthusiastic and passionate you are about this house and this project, it is super inspiring
It is amazing what you have accomplished!
I know right? I just emailed this much bigger UA-camr I thought was cool and he actually was, and let me leech some of his popularity by allowing me to make this hit video for my portfolio......oh wait....maybe you're referring to the guy actually IN the video. Yes, yes, Kaleb is amazing- here I was all excited....
I'm just kidding around Diandrea, sometimes people who find this video may not realize it is just a one-off documentary about this guy Kaleb and his historical house restoration project. This was filmed way back in October 2021. The Main event as they say would be the weekly progress vlogs he uploads regularly on his channel I'll post here:
ua-cam.com/users/The2ndEmpireStrikesBack
Thanks for watching my angle on the project, cheers
I always thought the staff had rooms on the uppermost floor. So interesting!
The great job on this tour and a great job of explaining everything
Hi Kaleb & Kim,
I just started watching this episode.
The house is amazing and I was surprised that many of the elements are still intact. It is great that at least some historic homes are being saved.
Your newest acquisitions will help with the restoration.
Jim~
Hi Jim, thanks for watching my video. I feel I should tell you that while Kaleb is star of this film, this is not Kaleb and Kim's UA-cam channel. I'm just a 3rd party film making documentarian guy and Kaleb was gracious enough to let me make this film for over here on my channel. I hope you liked it, I think it's one of the better things I've done.
Sincere regards,
Dozenspeed
Love what you're doing.
I have a hunch you mean to say you love what Kaleb is doing with the historic mansion, but I'll go ahead and assimilate your compliment for myself as well, thanks!
❤🙏🏼.she is extremely beautiful n absolutely exotic. Wht a class.i dont want her to b modified with any other construction than d original in any way.just restore her to all her original glory.
That's exactly his plan essentially, wherever possible. He's said it's a restoration versus "just a rehab." Thanks for watching my take on his story. :)
The house is really coming along! Can't wit to see finished product! No sneaking out of that house with those stairs lol 😆
Be sure to subscribe to The 2nd Empire Strikes Back channel (link in description) to follow the whole story starting Summer of 2020 all the way up to current weekly episodes! This particular video is a feature documentation I did for my channel, and took place in October 2021, just before they really got the electrical wiring going. I think this piece offers a nice detailed overall tour of the house up to a certain moment that we are already past, but hopefully will be nice to revisit in the future. Cheers and thanks for watching my "a bit outside view" glimpse of this great resurrection story. :)
Great video, very informative
Thank you. I tried my best to keep up with him!
I have always dreamed about renovating one of those historic St Louis homes. Coming from the south they looked like castles the first time I saw them.
me: has seen all of Caleb's videos since the beginning
also me: still watches a 34 min tour of the house
"but it makes a little satisfying ding" hahahahah oh my, gotta love Caleb
thanx for the tour video!!
Great tour, Caleb.
I can’t believe how close those houses are together, it’s so strange
Loved the tour !!!!!!🥰
Wow! That's around when Australia became a Nation and Federation. From what I've seen our restorations are done differently in that things get modernised. The story is instead told in photos and books. One thing I would consider doing the house you are renovating is put the water closet under the formal staircase and make the old closet into a pantry. I would do a lot of work in the garden something I think gets overlooked in restorations and modernisation.
👁👁 ❤️ 👏👏 Happy New Year
I love this house, Caleb is going make it into a show place.
So AWESOME. Lovely
Excellent tour. Thank you.
Nice. Keep up the good work.
Nice one, Kaleb!
Wow!
This house is only second to the magic house!
Thank you Kaleb
This house is so beautiful 😭😍
Love your home. Cant wait to see the restoration process with you!!
Be sure to subscribe to The 2nd Empire Strikes Back channel to follow the whole story starting Summer of 2020 all the way up to current weekly episodes! This particular video is a feature documentation I did for my channel, and took place in October 2021, just before they really got the electrical wiring going. I think this piece offers a nice detailed overall tour of the house up to a certain moment that we are already past, but hopefully will be nice to revisit in the future. Cheers and thanks for watching my "a bit outside view" glimpse of this great resurrection story. :)
I am not opposed to modernization of the mechanical and electric and the plumbing including the kitchen. I like keeping the style the same but modernizing it’s functionality.
That doll at 12:52 scared me for a sec lol
Your home is beyond beautiful and I am so jealous!
Be sure to subscribe to The 2nd Empire Strikes Back channel (link in description) to follow the whole story starting Summer of 2020 all the way up to current weekly episodes! This particular video is a feature documentation I did for my channel, and took place in October 2021, just before they really got the electrical wiring going. I think this piece offers a nice detailed overall tour of the house up to a certain moment that we are already past, but hopefully will be nice to revisit in the future. Cheers and thanks for watching my "a bit outside view" glimpse of this great resurrection story. :)
Will do and look forward to seeing your progress!
Amazing basement 😍 it would still make a great space for a home based business.
Ruining things for myself since I’m only at 23 of the play list but I couldn’t not check it out
When my Grandpa was born, that house was only 8 years old.
In my grandafathers house ( the Spring Garden Tavern built in 1852) the windows downstairs had shutters also but the were a 4 panel style and were not shuttered - the windows were deep enough you could sit in them
When you are on the upstairs 3rd floor and looking out the window, you talk about columns. I couldn't help but to look at the surrounding area. Did all those surrounding lots have houses on them at one time? If so, were they as grand as the Brown's home? Thx!
You might mean the empty lots behind the house, or the massive clearing across the street out of the front which is huge new government complex development. Either way, yes, they would have been full of houses at one point, and I think the infamous Pruitt-Igoe was located there. Some of the houses over the last century and a half were pretty fancy, but
generally the most affluent ones were on St. Louis Ave itself. Cheers
Interesting that the dining room is its own room, with just a door to the hallway, in comparison to most homes where the dining room flows off the living room or has a large entrance way. (Now, with open concept floorplans, the dining "area" is a table and chairs, no separate room at all.)
Interesting
Most Brooklyn brownstones have pocket shutters.
Love this house. I wonder if this house was featured with Ryan's show MR MAN I remember that had just moved in
It was. This was filmed about 7 months later, and just before they started getting serious with replacing the wiring. Thanks for watching, cheers. :)
Love listening to you talking about your house I can hear the passion you have for it ,do you have a video of the first time that you & Kim went threw it ?
If you check out the big 3.3 million+ view initial video on their channel, I think that is as close as it gets as far as I know. :)
any pics of the now gone property nrxt door? Wouldn't it be great if the city passed building ordeance to only build structures on that property similar to what was there/
I think you can see part of it in an old pic he has shown of the Brown Family back in the day. I appreciate replacement properties being appropriate for historic design, sadly they don't always do that here.
Have you been able to finish the house? I would like to see the finished product. I too restored a Victorian four-square. Can you show some of the rooms that have been completely restored?
Hi 24 klia, I'm not the guy in the video and this isn't my house, I'm just a 3rd party film maker who made this particular video. It was filmed in October 2021 after he had been working on it for about a year. This film contains the entire house as it stood at that time. He's still working on it with steady progress and you can find out everything and follow along on his channel:
ua-cam.com/users/The2ndEmpireStrikesBack
Thanks for watching!
Anyone know why they grouped the houses so close together when they were built? Just curious
I think it was just trendy to do that in cities to maximize development costs and taxes and profits per square foot. Or mowing grass wasn't fashionable yet!
No one drove cars back when this home was built so it made the most sense to build homes closer together to allow more people to live closer to city center for jobs and commerce.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack thank you for the explanation!
Thank you so much! Could the maid’s room of been on the 3rd floor? Seems strange it would have of been next to the owner’s.
I've wondered that, but they seem sure for some reason!
In New York they say the front bedroom would have been for the gentleman. Not sure if this was true in your town. Frame that old panel behind glass. It is such a conversation piece.
It would have been good if you got some closeups of things.
Yeah. I tried in a couple places, but I was trying to keep up with Kaleb, and film the whole interior tour in one continuous shot. I hope to shoot there again after it is done and I'll try to keep that in mind. Thanks for watching. :)
I'm curious what the house sold for. l'm so glad you got it and are caring for it
I think the number is somewhere in his lexicon of videos. Happy hunting! ua-cam.com/users/The2ndEmpireStrikesBack
good thing hes young , seems almost overwhelming , lovely old home. Im curiious, is there a freeway nearby or is that the road out fronts traffic ?
That's probably traffic noise from pretty busy-at-times St. Louis Ave.
I kind of wonder what the icebox looks like inside and out in the garage that has a lazy Susan.
I love restoration and gentrification. It gives me hope!
I am surprised you don't have the link to the The 2nd Empire Strikes Back channel posted in your description.
I do. It's the 3rd line of the description.
Kaleb don't steam the paint off of the wallpaper. Christine McConnell restored original wallpaper by pealing off paint and she tried to steam a section and it ruined it. Watch how she did it as I think it will help you a lot. Those shutters are pretty common here too and I'm in Australia ☺️
This sounds like important advice, perhaps you should also tell him this on one of his videos on his channel. :)
I like to know why do the rooms have a door to the room next to it if they have a hallway door 🚪?
I think that's how they designed them in those days before air conditioning.
Is the Vitrolite tile blue? Would you consider selling it? I have a 1920’s house and would love to use it in my bathroom.
I thought it was kind of blueish green, and I think it is spoken for by a Vitrolite guy Kaleb knows, but maybe he can put you in touch with him. :)
Looks like your house has a new roof.
What happened to all those blocks just south of you? Was it an old neighborhood as well that's been torn down?
It's a 96 acre parcel that has been built and torn down about 3 or 4 times, and I think was once home to the infamous Pruitt-Igoe project. It's now going to be home to a new government operations facility, so that should stick. Thanks for watching.
I think I’ve asked you before but I don’t remember will you get the fireplace is up and running so that they will actually be wood-burning fireplaces?
None of them were wood burning. They are all made for coal. We are 99% sure we will not be making them operational.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack Kaleb you a power house..... thank you for responding! You know l knew they would be coal 😁 your home is wow🤩 so so happy for you both!
Did you use silicone sealant to refinish the roof?
I don't know what they use on there, but he talks about it at some point...
Cheers
Kaleb, did you say that you thought the original kitchen was in the basement?
I think he said the veterinary office was down there. He talks about the original spot for the kitchen on the first floor being kept where it is.