Urbex: Large Lone ABANDONED FARMHOUSE
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- *Update*: This beautiful farm house has been demolished, unfortunately. You would never know anything was there. I'm just glad I was able to explore in time for some footage beforehand as this is all we have left of it now.
November 2012, a holding company had placed an application to demolish any properties on this land. So this house will be demolished. The land itself is for sale for $4,500,000 CAD for 40 acres zoned for industrial use. While exploring, I noticed there was a newspaper left behind with the date of November 8, 2012, so it hasn't been abandoned very long. I guess being close to the city wouldn't take long for vandals to ruin the place. There was no mold damage.
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This house is still able to be fixed up.
Why do people just leave and do nothing.
I love your work please keep them coming.
Most people just don't care about historical places. They just see "an old run-down house" and many want to see the "eyesore" gone and something new put in its place. Older homes are getting harder to find. Newer homes are just not built the same and lack the charm of the older homes.
The land may have been taken over by the province or nearest city. They are next to a huge highway telling us if the highway is considering future expansion it may need that land. In which likely they will tear down the home. The province or community will not invest in a home they generally will tear down. Although you would think they would rent it out making the city money to help with future highway expansion. All they would need then is when the road is ready to expand. Would be to give notice to current occupants that they are tearing down the home.
that breaks my heart that wonderful old home was destroyed .... so sad
I agree with Sue Yoxall just below me, that breaks my heart to see this awesome old house erased from history. Imagine the lives lived in this house. The children, the laughter, love and celebrations as well as the deaths and grief. I would love to have lived in this house it really is beautiful. Have fun and be safe!! Thanks for taking the time to show these forgotten properties to us! Do you have a treking buddy? You really shouldn't go out into these places alone. Anything could happen and it might be safe to have someone there to have your back.
I like to watch TIkiTrex explore on her own. It is kind of cool and having another person around would probably ruin her commentary whcih is very good. I watch all her videos where she does it on her own, it is fine.
I do love her videos too, but I am all about safety. So many things can go wrong and if you are alone it can be down right dangerous. i don't want to see anything happen to her. She's got a lot of moxy going into these places alone I will give her that! Some of these places freak me out but they are so cool!
How do you know she's alone?
Just to let you know, the house's you see with the stairs going up off the kitchen is always the servants room. The owner always used the master stairs with the rest of the family. We lived in a house with 26 rooms in it and it had a maids and butlers quarters in it. The rooms were gigantic! The dinning room had a trap door in the floor where the well was at for in the house. It also had one in the kitchen and also on the back porch. Oh and it had an old out house with three holes. Oh and old houses like this never had indoor plumbing! That's right! You used a chamber pot at night with a lid. Then in the morning the maid carried the pots outside and dumped them and cleaned them and put them back where they went up stairs. Cool job! Another great vid.
thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20500104,00.html Sounds like some of these! One of them had no plumbling and another had neither electric nor plumbing.
Yea and just to think the maid also was a chamber maid who emptied and cleaned the poo pots for the family along with cleaning and cooking and gardening and many other chores. When I grew up we lived in a house that had 26 rooms in it and I had the butlers quarters for a bedroom. It also had the stairs that lead down to the kitchen and the master stairs too. We had a 12 foot Christmas tree in the great room which had 14 foot ceilings and the room was 30 foot by 20 foot and it was a very large room. The dinning room was the same size and had a well in it in a trap door in the floor. Like your title! I also like the traditional hymns too. The old ways are fading fast and the country is loosing it's way.
Well, where I live the stairs from the kitchens to upper floor. Were considered the back stairs with no servant quarters. I live in Pennsylvania. Most used room in houses used to be the kitchen. It was short cut up & Down. Nothing grand at all
I've only had two hole outhouse explained to me. Coal towns people lived in duplexes. Out house was a duplex also. A & B duplex with A & B outhouse. Families were larger during this time period. When you had to go. You used outhouses quickly. You didn't read a book. The sharing families out house. I wouldn't of been comfortable with at all. Couldn't go with strangers with me. Don't forget a stick to bang around the rim to scare off snakes. No joke.
So sorry that the house and outbuildings are gone. You had commented when in one of the outbuildings that it may not havr been a farm - no barn. I think it is more than likely that it was a farm, just the barn was missing. Thanks again for filming your explorations. I would never have seen most of these places. . Regards, R Bryant
definitely my favorite explorer! in my younger days this was a favorite hobby of mine. My Mom told me she and her sister explored in THIER younger days, until Mom almost ended up in a cistern full of water.
Another sad one, I hate demolitions for projects that more often than not, take years to be made (the people could have more time) or nothing is done whatsoever. Great explore, at least we got to see it before it dissapeared, thank you.
Wow...what a shame this got demolished. It was such a beauty and so full of character. Thanks for sharing it!
Hey thanks for making these videos. I love them it's as if I am walking thru these places, your descriptions and everything even the way you say things really brings things to life. Great job keep it up please!!! Ms. Cynthia
It's a real shame that vandals trashed this place so much, it would have been a really nice house in its day! Another nice video Tiki, keep up the good work!
Once upon a time......I try to think of the excitement of the family and their new home. Thank you for time gone by for us romantics
Love old homes like that . sad to see it abandoned and being destroyed by vandels.
What a nice old house, it's so nice to see a house with no graffiti.
So glad you caught this beautiful house before they destroyed it.
I hope this house doesn't ever get vandalized its so beautiful,the window needs to be fixed to keep the ran out.Thz 4 the 📹 loved it!!!
This was a very nice house, thank you for the tour :)
Hi, just wondering what camera was used.
Also, only because I was criticized by builders, but the window 'sill' is out side, the window 'stool' is inside. The back stairs were meant for a servant or family only. The window sections on the floor are 'sashes'. The handcuffs or Clamps in the medicine cabinet is a 'escutcheon plate' which covers the hole of the waste pipe behind the P trap of the sink. The holes in the floor were where "registers' were, which were likely cast iron and ornate.
Not to argue with your critical builders, but my husband used to work in a lumberyard/hardware store, and in construction, and had his own handyman business. I sometimes worked alongside him. We gutted a house to the ground & rebuilt from the ground up. He started buying me my own power tools for Christmas, lol.
Anyway, I have never heard of a window stool. He always called the interior part the window sill.
Window parts: the glass pieces themselves are window panes. A window sash is the part of a window that opens & closes vertically, using a pulley & weight system. Then again to be fair, different things are frequently known by different names, depending on the part of the country you're in. Or which country you're in.
Handcuffs 🤣😂🤣😂
I agree with comment below about holes and hay/straw bales. When we lived on our farm (early '70's). I can remember my Dad putting straw bales around outside of house against foundation walls. Sometimes 2 bales high. Never put them inside however.
Russ Bennett What about straw bales and hay .... whatever comment you were referring to is gone now and I am curious about why anyone would put straw against a house?
justgivemethetruth At the point when Pam is in the basement she shows straw bales and wonders what they were for. I stated that when I was young on a farm my Father would stack bales around outside of house (foundation walls) to insulate them. They prevented cold and wind from entering to some extent, and were basically free. We never used them inside house though. Hope this clears up my comment and Thanks for asking!
Russ Bennett Thanks for the reply. That's interesting, kind of like a blanket.
Your camera work is SO much better than most on youtube. Thanks
Demolished? Poo! Nice place. The basement was eerie though.
What a terrible loss of a beautiful house. I think it should have been incorporated as office space or a frontend for whatever industrial stuff to go around it.
I came back for another look :)
The bell on the door is clockwork, if you turn the bell clockwise it would wind it enough for one or two rings, so you would have to rewind it when you answered the door, and of course the release button was outside the door! I remember my Grand parents having one on their front door which my three brothers and i played with, much to Grandmas annoyance!
Thank you for your guided tour :)
I love this house. It has so much potential. I wish you had someone with you on these explorations.
Loved the outside of this house❤️.. Thanks for the video.
God Bless and Be Safe😉
Since it's right by the kitchen; my guess is that the downstairs bathroom was probably originally a butlers pantry that was converted to a bathroom. A lot of times they built staircases like that going off of them for butlers to use EXC. It's really surprising the number of people that used to have a butler at the turn of the century as they were quite common. However times changed, having a butler soon became rare, and it became more desirable to have a downstairs bathroom. Great video! Thanks.
the crown molding around the floors is beautiful. and I love how deep the windowsills are! I wish they hadn't torn this place down its gorgeous
That was a gorgeous house! It may not have been a farmhouse- it was very stately, and looked like it was built for a family 'of substance'. The architecture says 'I am important!' rather than 'I am your friendly farmer'. Oh- and that sink? Not new. That was original, and the style was from the 'teens. (Dad was an architect- I know more about architectural history than is good for me...)
Great old house with good bones. To bad it’s being neglected. Just a weekend with a lawn mower and a pressure washer would make the outside look nice. Interior needs a little more but completely do-able. It was common to paint all the interior trim but stripped and stained, this place would be much more impressive. Many of the windows are the originals, wavy glass. The thickness of the exterior walls (width of the window ledges) make is appear it is a real brick home, not conventional construction with brick facade. Large, quality home worth some investment.
I enjoy seeing the architecture so I’m not disappointed when a house is empty. I’ve watched several of your videos the last couple of years and I gotta give you props, you are getting very skilled at this and are really making good videos. 👍
You are so brave in going in alone not knowing what to expect to find. Nice work I'd be scared off my mind...specially in that basement. :-)
It seems so wasteful not to let someone go in and remove things for salvage like the ceiling medallions and all that gorgeous woodwork. What a shame. Thanks for the tour.
I really liked the looks of this house! It had a nice proportion for the exterior, liked the way the rooms were laid out, gave it a nice airy floor plan with plenty of natural daylight. Also loved the Victorian woodwork and arched windows. Looked like a good solid brick house, wish it could have been saved. Judging by the air vents, it appears there was a gravity fed heating system, and the holes in the walls in the basement might have been where the multiple ducts ran to where the furnace was, just guessing, before the system was taken out.
It looks like the house was going through a partial reno job but for whatever reason was abandon. Secondly the house is more than likely over a 100 years old, I know this because was build using the old style yellow brick which was first used to build homes before the brick years figured out how to make the bricks red. But it looks like he's been updated which is why it has stood the test of time.
The holes in the basement walls, were from duct work for heating with the furnace at one time. It is obvious that the one large room was divided to make a bathroom and at least a small room. The lay out of the upstairs is all wrong. It makes no sense. This was probably a wealthier farmer/business man a one time. It may have had a servant quarter hence the back smaller steeper stair. Not all farm houses have small bed rooms. I have 3 very large bedrooms measuring 13'x17'. In fact all my rooms are that size and we are third generation.
Those missing cold air return floor grates are usually wrought iron & tend to be worth big bucks. They are used a lot when restoring old homes. Sometimes they are used as 'windows" in tall, wooden garden gates. Just like a lot of stained glass & wood trim are taken from these homes. It's a catch 22 with these things. No one wants to see a beautiful old home destroyed but, people will say why didn't someone save these things when the home is eventually torn down. Thank you for the video memorial
Love the video Tiki, Your Urban Exploration videos are my favorite!
The drawing you found in the barn is from a Dutch artist Marjolein Bastin, she draws some nature things and also print it on textile like table clothes and dived covers so this people had something with Holland
Happy little farmhouse. What a shame it will be gone soon. Nice land too. I guess the price was right to move. Thanks again for the tour !
Oh thank goodness for that tiki. Thanks for checking it out. Makes sense now. Jackie UK. 8-)
Nice house. Sad it's just rotting away
Loved your video. Oh how I would love to restore that house, put up a barn and stables for horses. Along with a coop for chickens. Sweet!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Great video as always, Tiki! Thank you for sharing!
this would be an amazing house if it was rescued
Could have been really beautiful,loved the wall paper in the front entry hall, hard woods on the floor good shape ! Thanks Tiki great find ....
What a beautiful house! :-) Thanks for sharing!
I just drove by there today, and sadly, it's already been demolished. You'd never know there was ever a house there. They wasted no time.
I saw a sign on the floor in the upstairs bedroom that said "yes, we are open for busi, they must have run some kind of business here.
The stairs were probably not put in the bathroom, rather the bathroom was built into the stairway hall. Those ceiling medallions are amazing. I hope they can be salvaged and not lost in the demolition.Along with the wood floors and all the woodwork. The hole in the closet floor was where they feed the stove pipe through. The bathroom upstairs was probably a bedroom at first.
The stairs were probably there first and that area just made a handy nook to install a bathroom later.
You coined a new word: Zonage...very good! I really liked that house. it was a bit neglected. Thanx for the trek!
Love your videos. Just found them. Thanks for the posts!
Welcome! Thanks for watching!
Fascinating! Loved it! So much history, boy is those walls could talk.
Very cool and unique looking house Tiki. great Video
Great job as always Pam! Keep it up.
I am addicted. too i' do love watching ur videos.......i' agree what pitter pat said.....thumbs up !! love see more..!!!!!
Nice older home, I always enjoy seeing the character within lovely
Wonderful Tiki...your videos are so Relaxing...
Besides the oddly placed bathroom downstairs the house is very nice.
it's a shame they want to tear this down. nice house, the back stairs are always a bonus. nice job on the video
this one i'd love to have....those ceiling medallions were gorgeous. we had a door bell like that in a very old house, built in the 1890s. the registers were probably decorative as well probably why they went ...and i love that wall paper. when can i move in, lol..
It is a catch 22 for sure. Very interesting factoid! Thanks for your informative comment and for watching!
I absolutely love the entry way wallpaper and light mouldings. I know they have a fancy name for those but I forget. The heat vents in those old houses were usually solid brass so no doubt someone pilfered them. It hard to believe this house fell into such ruin in just a matter of a few years. But I guess not really. We've seen worse! I actually have dreams sometimes about going into old abandoned houses and cleaning them up. I restore houses in my dreams! lol
+summer fields Medallions.
Ah yessss....
Ceiling medallions.
I really liked this tour . Well done as usual .
Thank goodness it this house lives on through you! Another gem lost to time and progress.
I agree, but really, it's another gem lost to greedy land grabbing developers who are so single minded all they see is dollar signs. They are the epitome of the lyrics, "they paved paradise & put up a parking lot"
i always wonder the history of these places. Most of them are super old and have proll been standing before most of us were born. I wonder about the lives the people lived there, the fun times, the bad times, holidays, funerals etc thank you once again for sharing. I wish they would save some of these places instead of just knocking them down
OMG......are those the cool metal kitchen cupboads?????? The decorative designs in the lighten on the ceilings are amazing. Egadz....I hope they removed all this awesome stuff before the tore it down. LOVE your vids.
So nice to see a woman explorer. Very thorough. Enjoyed this video.
Another great explore!! Thank you!!
That handcuff thing you found is called a mouse guard. It snaps around a plumbing drain pipe to prevent mice from coming through the space around it. BTW, I have a prepared answer if someone wants to know what I'm doing. My answer is: "The tax department wants me to video tape abandoned properties."
Thanks for the info, Jim. Sounds like you have an ideal job.
+GOTHIC CHILD I was exploring an abandoned (closed) grain storage elevator and found a dead guy who had been living in there.
www.jimforeman.com/Stories/deadman.htm
+Jim Foreman You did Omg awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
+Dj Narwhalz Here's the story I wrote for a magazine article one time.
www.jimforeman.com/Stories/deadman.htm
+Jim Foreman Read your story. It was a good one.
Thank you for subscribing! I am in Ontario, Canada. :)
Is this house located on a large county road or highway? its either the breeze or one loud maindrag. Beautiful huse love the windows. Dividors make the house
That was unique,stairs in the bathroom! Great video as usual,watch out for those birds,Lol,thanks for the video.
horrible; to read this gorgeous house had been demolished Thank you for letting us see it before...
It must have been a nice house before it got damaged. Great video Pam.
It may have already been noted, but all the holes in the basement wall were for ductwork. It appears the furnace was completely removed for some reason, maybe they wanted to fully replace it. Hence where the heat registers/grates/covers were missing there was also nothing in under them.
Thank you! I have more to come :)
WTH! It would have been a good candidate for restoration! :O
The toilet and staircase thing is the opposite, they would have put the toilet where the stairs were, not the other way around: in a large victorian such as this, there would have been two front doors and two sets of stairs. One set for the servants/staff and the other set for the people who lived there.
The holes in the floor and walls in the basement have been caused by the removal of the HVAC system.
Awesome vid!
Those "handcuffs" are used to finish the space between the floor and the pipe which contains the valve that controls radiator heat. To me it's a toss up between a halted renovation and scavengers-possibly both. What a gorgeous house! I hope it was Fully harvested before it was torn down. I can't think of one reason why anyone would want to with the shape its in! I can't place your accent, though. Too thick to be Canadian, but not heavy enough to be Australian-though I'd lean toward the latter. Reading you heading it appears that I'm wrong. Do you do these explores Alone?!!
The "Come in We're Open" sign makes me think the people living in the home probably provided a service, so an easily visible address would be desirable. The "handcuff's" is actually a piece of metal trim which is placed around a pipe protruding through the floor or wall.
What a nice house.. solid as a rock.. what a waste.
Hi Tiki, what a great find. I don't know if u noticed but at about 7:13 when u were up stairs and u pointed the camera to the chair did u notice it had chains on it and it looked like someone had drilled two holes in the arm rests at the bottom because the chains were threaded through them. weird? Thanks Tiki Jackie from the UK.
Thank you, Teresa :)
You are very very welcome. Thanks for the A's always great videos. Doug.8-)
Yeah you did a wonderful job of filming without any blunders
sweet personal touches in the house(shower curtain rings),the bed made up with sheets was weird..and those holes in the floor cold air registers maybe? and i wonder if the downstairs bathroom was like added on,'cause it was off the kitchen and an extra set of stairs in the kitchen is not so unusual. the basement was just creepy,those holes in the stone walls,perhaps for pipes? i swear Tiki,you find the most interesting locations!!
i am sure you mentioned it before but what kind of camera do you use for your explorations. i want a camera for stuff outside and on the move aside from my regular indoor vlogging. ....
To bad this old house was demolished. I bet it was a beauty in its day.
Such a Beautiful house pitty it is looking to be demolished, id buy it in an instant. You make the best videos i have seen so far.
Many older homes are being demolished for the land they are on. Like this one ...the land is worth way more than this old house. I'd like to see more where these houses can be sold cheap or givin away to someone that would move them to another location. I'm here in the US and we have Hostorical Societies that help in the community to help save old buildings.
Tiki my friend!!! Another gem! Your the best! !!! xxoo
It appears someone had aspirations to remodel it. Tile,Plumbing...ect. I am guessing the many holes in the basement was to access certain plumbing/water pipes. Apparently the people must've realized they didn't have enough money to finish or the noise level from that traffic drove them away.
This home would be perfect for only little renovation. We cleaned up a dirty house like this when I was little, was a school in the early 60's. Was turned into a house after a tree fell down and split the house in half, the owner ended up making 2 separate houses, and rented them both out, house also had a big history, and is part of the historical group. Sat empty for 4 years before we moved in, didn't look livable. Did some cleaning and re painting lived in it almost as is.
Just wondering if you noticed the chains on that chair - very creepy! What was restrained in that chair?
Porch swing chair probably.
Agreed. DIY porch swing.
The cardboard boxes outside the door suggest that someone must of been there recently or they would be weathered!?
It is a shame that this house was demolished. Saying that...it would be been nice to see some of the wood salvaged like the wooden banisters and the crown molding to used for other projects.
Just a thought with the heating system but a friend of mine had a new house built and His heating system was only two years old and the house was due to be demolished. So He had the heater and piping system installed in the new build.
Thanks! I have more to come :)
We were having bets here on how many times you would say "SPIDER" nobody won you did'nt Well done Pam, you did say cobwebs but that's ok. Another great vid. Thankyou
Anybody notice the chains thru the chair arms?? At 7:47
I'm glad you enjoyed, Windy! :)