Agreed. Having different people describing each room/space held my attention much more than one guide reciting abbreviated descriptions, histories, which happens, I believe, when one has too much to remember and miles to cover by themselves.
Hahahaha I was all in-depth with the guides until the green haired hat woman. She did not fit the scene. I didn’t hear a thing she said all I could look at was that crazy green hair. Hard to take her serious
I appreciate your honesty about Mrs. Vaile's death. It's good for people to understand that opiate addiction, mental illness, and suicide are not new problems.
Not sure , but I do know Victorians loved cherubs and Grecian goddesses. I think they were fascinated with Greek and Roman myths in that time period. There are a lot of Victorian houses with Grecian aspects like the plaques around the lights. You guys should watch “ The Second Empire Strikes Back “. It’s a couple from St Louis Missouri “ fixing up a second empire mansion. The guy is incredibly talented and doing it all himself.
As a child I rode by this house every day on the school bus, probably 1965-,1966. I was fascinated by the house. When I was a girl scout we visited the property it was a very sad nursing home. There was no beauty then,it was institutional. Glad to see it so cared for.
That was a brilliantly filmed and narrated tour of a magnificent historic mansion! As a former docent, I will say that the docents that spoke in this video are amongst the best I've ever heard! If ever I travel to this area, this will be a "must see" for me! Thank you all for your time and effort in producing this excellent presentation!
Wonderful job Independence, Missouri! It must have taken an immense amount of work and money to bring this jewel back to its original state. I'm sure we wouldn't recognize it as a nursing home. Thank you for sharing this wonderful, historic home with us!
10 years ago, I came here with my parents. We toured the home and loved it. So glad to see additional items have been donated and efforts continue to make more improvements.
Thank you for the lovely tour conducted by people who obviously loved the mansion ❤️ And being serenaded by the gentleman with "The Teddy Bear's Picnic" was wonderful! 🦋🦋🦋🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋
What a gorgeous home! I'm happy that it's so beautifully preserved and well cared for. I'd like to hear more about a possible haunting, though. Thank you for this.
They probably showed the word “haunted?” to entice more viewers. The closest thing to strange things in the mansion is when he had the artist paint subliminal faces into the walls where the owner of the mansion would entertain his male friends to some alcohol and get them “tipsy” enough to see those painted faces on the wall come out at them.
Several years ago, I was lucky enough to tour the Vaile Mansion. It's a wealth of Victorian exuberance, and a delight to the eye. The copper bathtub really caught my attention, and I also remember the 'scandal' of the bedroom ceiling painting, as well as the 'faces' in the faux wood. Both Independence, and St. Joseph, Missouri have many gorgeous Victorian homes; being the 'gateways' to the West. Thank you, so much, for sharing this wonderful tour of the Vaile Mansion. :)
Wonderful to have volunteers redoing the fountain, outdoors! Beautiful! I’d love to visit! I’m so glad this came up in my feed! What a great video of such a lovely place! Thank you for the tour!
What a well done video! I enjoyed all of the docents. They were all so pleasant and well informed and had great delivery. Thanks for sharing it with us!
WOW! This was an absolutely wonderful video. I hope to see this home someday. You did such a lovely job guiding the tour through the home. It is astounding how beautiful this home is and the sad loneliness of a legacy of no children to enjoy and inherit it. Clearly, Mr. Vaile loved his wife so that he never could remarry. Most men of those days would have done so immediately. The different tour guides were a delight to listen to. Thank you for all the loving care put into preserving this home and the heritage of Missouri for future generations.
Correction: The reed organ is an Estey Artist's Model. It is not German. It is American and was made in Brattleboro VT. I am a reed organist and restorer. The rest of the video is great though!
I need someone to help me fix the straps on my bellows. My mother ordered the strapping material and was told how to properly fix it but we never got to it and then she was I'll and passed away. I guess I'll check UA-cam for a video, but would love some expertise.
WOW, what a gorgeous 💍 gem of a restored Victorian mansion you have in the VAILE. This video presentation is wonderful. Thank YOU to all who worked to create this documentary of the Vaile Mansion and Grounds. 💕
Beautiful house. Sad that the different owner's all had sad lives and then a nursing home . Enjoyed the tour maybe I'll get to come see it one day. O and I loved the singing at the end.
Thank you for sharing! I live in an old oil boom town where the glorious homes here have sparked my interest in historical architecture. I enjoyed the tour! Well done volunteers!
I would have liked to see the various turrets and the attic and the basement, as well as the workings of the water and sewer systems. I love all the weird little spaces in old houses.
Very glad that this beautiful home was saved, I'd love to visit there. Is it haunted? The period dresses were beautiful! Every room was spectacular. I'm a new subscriber, looking forward to your next video. 😊🌹🌹🌻
Beautiful restoration and has to be one of the most beautiful exsisting Mansions of this type left in America. I bet this place is haunted as all get out though...
Hello; Happy 2025. Of this video, I am enjoying the history, of this Victorian home. I, especially, am enjoying the part about the piano and organ, since I've matriculated, at Juilliard for classical composition, in the mid 1990s. Thank You, for this wonderful tour. All the very best Shaun🦉 of New York City🗽
Oh, I really enjoyed this tour especially how each room was presented by a different person and unique personality. It was also nice to hear that the Vaile's were abolitionist so my heart can feel warm not only to the house but the people who made it, determined to do whats right even tho it was not popular. BTW, Shannon I love your style.
Chickering was also the brand of the piano that actress Laura Keene owned and was going to play for Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater after "Our American Counsin" ended on the night Lincoln was shot. It has been said that she lived the rest of her (relatively short) life with that piano but never played it again.
A very beautiful house!! So much art! The restoration is fantastic!!! Thank you for sharing it his magnificent house with us! Such sadness with Mrs Vaile’s death and Mr Vaile’s loss and grief and sadness 😢
One of the very best vidio tours of historic homes. I especially enjoyed the flow of using several different people to present different areas of the home. Would love to tour.
What a beautiful home he built for his wife. Love these old home the way they are built . Thank you , for sharing with all of us. I have enjoyed this video very much.
Absolutely Stunningly Beautiful. 😍 A lot of people, ideas, and hard work along with millions to bring it all back to it's original form and much better than before I'm almost sure. And The Historian Speakers also done an amazing job explaining it all to us audience. And to think I just stumbled across this video and wasn't planning on watching it fully but I was sucked right in. 😮 So amazing to see. ❤❤✨
What an extraordinary construction and this video tour was a pleasure, it was very well produced. Thankfully no short-sighted developers got a hold of this piece of history. It may have ended up as parking lots and apartments.
What a spectacular tour, by outstanding docents! Learning about the property is expected of course, but learning little tidbits about the era, even better!
Really beautiful mansion! It always seems like these rich manor houses always have tragedy connected to it. Was so sorry to hear of Mrs fails death and loneliness must have been just terrible for her and her dear husband who went through all that misery of being accused of something he wasn't even guilty of, it's a horrible tragedy! Tremendously beautiful place! I bet it's exquisite in the winter time during the Christmas season when it's all decorated! Thank you for sharing this video and creating it for us out here in video land . It was truly a beautiful thing to look upon this magnificent house! It's wonderful to have these historical homes captured in time with all their beautiful Elegance and glamor that it is not lost to history. Sincerely with gratitude Robin McCaul from Massachusetts.
All of the presenters are just charming! I hope to make a trip across the state to tour this wonderful house! Thank you all so much for this video, especially the song at the end! ❤️
This was wonderful! The different tour guides in each area made it just like a visit to this lovely place. Their pride and knowledge is apparent and they made it fun. This goes on my list of beautiful historic sites to see some day. Thank you so much!
Magnificent! Thank you for the wonderful presentations, history, information, and details. I am impressed with your dedication and hard work maintaining this exquisite old home and the grounds surrounding it!
I have seen Mrs. Vaile’s photo before! (I have friends I just saw last Sunday on the East coast for a wedding who are from Missouri! I can’t wait to ask them if they’ve been here! Poor woman...what a sad story for the Vaile couple.
Lovely tour and very informative. I enjoyed the video and marvel at the fact that it’s been so well preserved, and the restoration is superb. It’s too bad that the Vaile’s didn’t get to spend much time here. It’s also too bad that they never had any children who would’ve benefited from everything they had to offer.
Well, well, well. I am following this beautiful home tour because of the Vaile name, which was to be found near my Pearce ancestors in New Jersey / New York pre and post Revolution but when you indicated Sophie Vaile suffered from stomach cancer it caught my interest. My great-grandfather's first cousin was Martha Pearce McQuerry Secrist, who migrated with her first husband, Leander McQuerry to Independence, Jackson Co. MO, died of stomach cancer too in 1916. Her first husband died and she married John Ross Secrest. Her illness was the first indication in my family tree of anyone dying of stomach cancer, and I have often wondered what might have caused the condition and whether it was related to the place, and style of eating in the late 1800s and turn of the century. These odd little items pop up from time to time that can be so interesting.
I loved the presenters as they introduced us to this historical house and grounds. I appreciate all your work.
Was thinking that too about the guides. What a delightful group! Homes like this make me weak in the knees.
Indeed it is obvious this mansion is a source of pride to the local community.
Agreed. Having different people describing each room/space held my attention much more than one guide reciting abbreviated descriptions, histories, which happens, I believe, when one has too much to remember and miles to cover by themselves.
Hahahaha I was all in-depth with the guides until the green haired hat woman. She did not fit the scene. I didn’t hear a thing she said all I could look at was that crazy green hair. Hard to take her serious
@@virgettadrinnen9957 Well...if you did not hear a thing she said, you missed out!
So glad to see these beautiful old homes restored. They are works of art. Thank you!
I appreciate your honesty about Mrs. Vaile's death. It's good for people to understand that opiate addiction, mental illness, and suicide are not new problems.
So glad this has been saved and maintained-thank you!
All of the hosts do a beautiful job, expressive, not too fast, not too slow. So pleasing to listen too.
I agree ❤
I wonder if the wingless cherub symbolized a lost child or the absence of children.
Child never had.
I was thinking the same, glad to know the answer.
Not sure , but I do know Victorians loved cherubs and Grecian goddesses. I think they were fascinated with Greek and Roman myths in that time period. There are a lot of Victorian houses with Grecian aspects like the plaques around the lights. You guys should watch “ The Second Empire Strikes Back “. It’s a couple from St Louis Missouri “ fixing up a second empire mansion. The guy is incredibly talented and doing it all himself.
As a child I rode by this house every day on the school bus, probably 1965-,1966. I was fascinated by the house. When I was a girl scout we visited the property it
was a very sad nursing home. There was no beauty then,it was institutional. Glad to see it so cared for.
A nursing home? That's so creepy. "Looking for new ghosts, apply within."
That was a brilliantly filmed and narrated tour of a magnificent historic mansion! As a former docent, I will say that the docents that spoke in this video are amongst the best I've ever heard! If ever I travel to this area, this will be a "must see" for me! Thank you all for your time and effort in producing this excellent presentation!
This mansion is beautiful! I absolutely love everything about it! The colors are amazing! ❤️🌹❤️
What a lovely restoration, the art, fine designs, furniture, colors used are an inspiration to designers!
I remember that place when it was a nursing home. The restoration has been spectacular. It is a wonderful place!
Have you gone there for a tour?
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Wonderful job Independence, Missouri! It must have taken an immense amount of work and money to bring this jewel back to its original state. I'm sure we wouldn't recognize it as a nursing home. Thank you for sharing this wonderful, historic home with us!
What an amazing property! Well done restoration.
10 years ago, I came here with my parents. We toured the home and loved it. So glad to see additional items have been donated and efforts continue to make more improvements.
So cool that they had a different presenter for each room. Loved every second of it.
Thank you for the lovely tour conducted by people who obviously loved the mansion ❤️ And being serenaded by the gentleman with
"The Teddy Bear's Picnic" was wonderful! 🦋🦋🦋🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋
What a gorgeous home! I'm happy that it's so beautifully preserved and well cared for. I'd like to hear more about a possible haunting, though. Thank you for this.
Me too, they didn’t mention who is haunting this mansion.
@@cynthiabustamante7551 How would they know ?
They probably showed the word “haunted?” to entice more viewers. The closest thing to strange things in the mansion is when he had the artist paint subliminal faces into the walls where the owner of the mansion would entertain his male friends to some alcohol and get them “tipsy” enough to see those painted faces on the wall come out at them.
Several years ago, I was lucky enough to tour the Vaile Mansion. It's a wealth of Victorian exuberance, and a delight to the eye. The copper bathtub really caught my attention, and I also remember the 'scandal' of the bedroom ceiling painting, as well as the 'faces' in the faux wood. Both Independence, and St. Joseph, Missouri have many gorgeous Victorian homes; being the 'gateways' to the West. Thank you, so much, for sharing this wonderful tour of the Vaile Mansion. :)
Very, very well done! The beautiful home was beautifully presented.
This video is so beautifully narrated. My thanks goes to all these lovely volunteers.
Wonderful to have volunteers redoing the fountain, outdoors! Beautiful! I’d love to visit! I’m so glad this came up in my feed! What a great video of such a lovely place! Thank you for the tour!
Absolutely gorgeous!! I love that this home is so beautifully restored and preserved.
What a well done video! I enjoyed all of the docents. They were all so pleasant and well informed and had great delivery. Thanks for sharing it with us!
A magnificent mansion. Thanks for a brilliant tour.
WOW! This was an absolutely wonderful video. I hope to see this home someday. You did such a lovely job guiding the tour through the home. It is astounding how beautiful this home is and the sad loneliness of a legacy of no children to enjoy and inherit it. Clearly, Mr. Vaile loved his wife so that he never could remarry. Most men of those days would have done so immediately. The different tour guides were a delight to listen to. Thank you for all the loving care put into preserving this home and the heritage of Missouri for future generations.
We visited Vaile Mansion today and Charlie was our guide. It's a wonderful place full of history and art. A very interesting tour. Highly recommended.
I’ve been in the mansion back in the 80’s. Gorgeous then and now
Correction: The reed organ is an Estey Artist's Model. It is not German. It is American and was made in Brattleboro VT. I am a reed organist and restorer. The rest of the video is great though!
I need someone to help me fix the straps on my bellows. My mother ordered the strapping material and was told how to properly fix it but we never got to it and then she was I'll and passed away. I guess I'll check UA-cam for a video, but would love some expertise.
Wonderful house and beautiful lady's and gentlemen who took the time, I truly enjoyed your tour, thank you so much.
What a well done tour. I thought all the presenters were so eloquent and knowledgeable. I can't wait to visit!
WOW, what a gorgeous 💍 gem of a restored Victorian mansion you have in the VAILE. This video presentation is wonderful. Thank YOU to all who worked to create this documentary of the Vaile Mansion and Grounds. 💕
This was a beautiful home.
I enjoyed the tour.
I cant imagine liveing such a perfect house.
Well done USA in preserving your heritage! Simply awesome.
I so enjoyed the tour of this beautiful house, well done all the guides!
Beautiful house. Sad that the different owner's all had sad lives and then a nursing home . Enjoyed the tour maybe I'll get to come see it one day. O and I loved the singing at the end.
Thank you for sharing! I live in an old oil boom town where the glorious homes here have sparked my interest in historical architecture. I enjoyed the tour! Well done volunteers!
Where is that at, love old homes
Fabulous tour!! Expertly done by very well versed folks!! Thank you so much!! 🥰
I would have liked to see the various turrets and the attic and the basement, as well as the workings of the water and sewer systems. I love all the weird little spaces in old houses.
So spectacular. Thank you all who keep this historic home incredible beautiful.
The gentlemen and the ladies did an incredible job describing all of the features the house.
Very glad that this beautiful home was saved, I'd love to visit there. Is it haunted? The period dresses were beautiful! Every room was spectacular. I'm a new subscriber, looking forward to your next video. 😊🌹🌹🌻
Beautiful restoration and has to be one of the most beautiful exsisting Mansions of this type left in America. I bet this place is haunted as all get out though...
Yes, that house is haunted, and is a time capsule that hold ancient spirit.
@@dreamscott5913 I think the haunting is probably from the era of the Sanitarium !!!
Ive been here. And yea it is very haunted
Hello;
Happy 2025. Of this video, I am enjoying the history, of this Victorian home. I, especially, am enjoying the part about the piano and organ, since I've matriculated, at Juilliard for classical composition, in the mid 1990s.
Thank You, for this wonderful tour.
All the very best
Shaun🦉 of New York City🗽
Oh, I really enjoyed this tour especially how each room was presented by a different person and unique personality. It was also nice to hear that the Vaile's were abolitionist so my heart can feel warm not only to the house but the people who made it, determined to do whats right even tho it was not popular. BTW, Shannon I love your style.
Thank you!! All presenter’s did an AWESOME JOB!! very pleasant ❤️❤️❤️
Loved the video and also the gentleman singing the “Teddy Bear Picnic” song. ☺️
Such a beautiful house and so beautifully restored! Exciting that you are working on the grounds and pond, too. I would love to see it some day.
Beautiful! Thank you for posting. I live in the metro area and will have to come visit!
Chickering was also the brand of the piano that actress Laura Keene owned and was going to play for Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater after "Our American Counsin" ended on the night Lincoln was shot. It has been said that she lived the rest of her (relatively short) life with that piano but never played it again.
This is a beautiful home. It's a shame that so few people got to see the interior during the first 20 yrs of the house existence. Thank for this tour.
what a beautiful building...
This tour has been the best I have seen! Congratulations on a fantastic restoration!
A very beautiful house!! So much art! The restoration is fantastic!!! Thank you for sharing it his magnificent house with us! Such sadness with Mrs Vaile’s death and Mr Vaile’s loss and grief and sadness 😢
I enjoyed each presenter’s wonderful stories.
Breathtaking, jaw dropping and lavish. I loved the commentaries by the knowledgeable "Friends of Vaile", historians.
One of the very best vidio tours of historic homes. I especially enjoyed the flow of using several different people to present different areas of the home. Would love to tour.
The home is just gorgeous!!! I would love to visit, and I hope the man is there, singing away!!!
What a beautiful home he built for his wife. Love these old home the way they are built . Thank you , for sharing with all of us. I have enjoyed this video very much.
This was a lovely tour - great presentations and interesting history. Thank you!
Absolutely Stunningly Beautiful. 😍 A lot of people, ideas, and hard work along with millions to bring it all back to it's original form and much better than before I'm almost sure. And The Historian Speakers also done an amazing job explaining it all to us audience. And to think I just stumbled across this video and wasn't planning on watching it fully but I was sucked right in. 😮 So amazing to see. ❤❤✨
Beautiful home! So glad it is restored and maintained as it was!
Thank you for the tour! I love the green paint in the master bedroom. I painted my living room that color once. It was really pretty.
Thank you to the presenters who were so informative and genuine. A truely magnificent home.
What an extraordinary construction and this video tour was a pleasure, it was very well produced. Thankfully no short-sighted developers got a hold of this piece of history. It may have ended up as parking lots and apartments.
The workmanship is amazing. Truly fantastic. Gorgeous. This is one of the most beautiful old homes I’ve ever seen.
What a spectacular tour, by outstanding docents! Learning about the property is expected of course, but learning little tidbits about the era, even better!
Delightful tour and it is clear your guides love showing this home. Poor Mr. Vaile.
Best and most informative presentation of an old home that I have seen.
Totally enjoyed this, especially the random information included. Thank you for sharing! 🤗
Really beautiful mansion! It always seems like these rich manor houses always have tragedy connected to it. Was so sorry to hear of Mrs fails death and loneliness must have been just terrible for her and her dear husband who went through all that misery of being accused of something he wasn't even guilty of, it's a horrible tragedy! Tremendously beautiful place! I bet it's exquisite in the winter time during the Christmas season when it's all decorated! Thank you for sharing this video and creating it for us out here in video land . It was truly a beautiful thing to look upon this magnificent house! It's wonderful to have these historical homes captured in time with all their beautiful Elegance and glamor that it is not lost to history. Sincerely with gratitude Robin McCaul from Massachusetts.
This was very interesting.Thank you
This is spectacular !!! What a beautiful mansion !!! I am so glad they kept it as it was in its glory !
All of the presenters are just charming! I hope to make a trip across the state to tour this wonderful house! Thank you all so much for this video, especially the song at the end! ❤️
Wow, amazing, they knew how to build back in the day, just a lovely place
Fantastic preservation ... and equally fantastic Presentation. Beautifully done.
This was wonderful! The different tour guides in each area made it just like a visit to this lovely place. Their pride and knowledge is apparent and they made it fun. This goes on my list of beautiful historic sites to see some day. Thank you so much!
Such a delightful visit! The tour guides were well-spoken and knowledgeable. Thank you to all the volunteers that keep this magnificent home running.
Magnificent! Thank you for the wonderful presentations, history, information, and details. I am impressed with your dedication and hard work maintaining this exquisite old home and the grounds surrounding it!
Thank you to the presenters for showing such a grand house. I will plan to visit Vaile Mansion since it’s not too far from my home. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for saving an intricate part of our history. Great tour.
i found this lovely tour accidentally. what a joy 🥰
Thank you for the presentation. A big thankyou to the volunteers.
A beautiful and exquisitely furnished old home. Thank you for sharing.
thank-you so much for all the treasure you share
I have seen Mrs. Vaile’s photo before! (I have friends I just saw last Sunday on the East coast for a wedding who are from Missouri! I can’t wait to ask them if they’ve been here! Poor woman...what a sad story for the Vaile couple.
Yes this story was so sad no children especially people acting jealous over their money. Poor Sophie must have felt lonely.
The song at the end was delightful and fun!
Oh! The bear song and the end was wonderful 😊!!!!!
Wonderful Manson, and very personable volunteers, my brother lives on the same street
I loved everything about this house but kept waiting for the guides to take us up to the top of this mansion. I wanted to see the views from the top
That was excellent. I enjoyed the tour very much.
I absolutely love this show what a beautiful amazing home!
Lovely tour and very informative. I enjoyed the video and marvel at the fact that it’s been so well preserved, and the restoration is superb. It’s too bad that the Vaile’s didn’t get to spend much time here. It’s also too bad that they never had any children who would’ve benefited from everything they had to offer.
The mansion is extraordinarily beautiful ❤
Well, well, well. I am following this beautiful home tour because of the Vaile name, which was to be found near my Pearce ancestors in New Jersey / New York pre and post Revolution but when you indicated Sophie Vaile suffered from stomach cancer it caught my interest. My great-grandfather's first cousin was Martha Pearce McQuerry Secrist, who migrated with her first husband, Leander McQuerry to Independence, Jackson Co. MO, died of stomach cancer too in 1916. Her first husband died and she married John Ross Secrest. Her illness was the first indication in my family tree of anyone dying of stomach cancer, and I have often wondered what might have caused the condition and whether it was related to the place, and style of eating in the late 1800s and turn of the century. These odd little items pop up from time to time that can be so interesting.
This was entirely enjoyable. Thank you all.
What a gorgeous mansion!
To step back in time just once to see the beauty of the time and place... Thanks for the wonderful tour.
I love this tour! The home is breathtaking. I only wish I could visit this grand place in person. The presenters are so knowledgeable and well versed.
lol love the singing at the end - he seems like a really fun person
Hi. I have been in that Mansion many many many times!!!!!. ( beautiful)
Beautiful home xxx