Touring the Mansion that ALMOST Changed History| This House Tours
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- What if the Panama Canal had never been built? Join us as we tour the home of a man who almost changed history.
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So nice to see a classic house that did not get bulldozed!
What a beautiful house still well loved and cared for. Kudos to the current owners and thanks for letting us visit their home. Fantastic, informative tour as usual!
I loved all of it
This...OMG what beautiful house! I love when the woodwork is preserved and not painted over. My fav part, was the butlers pantry - I know that sounds strange, but the wood, the drawers the sink...I can only imagine the conversations that were held there long ago. Great video! Thank you!
One of the many reason I love Saint Louis is the immense collection of turn of the century mansion. What a treat to view the inside and outside of these homes on "This House." Great Job!
To add that they have been appreciated and not torn down. Wonderful history!
When I drive past all these magnificent houses across from forest park, I get lost imagining what they are like and why they’re there. Thank you, Ken! And the homeowners!
Craftsmanship unmatchable today. What a magnificent building.
I live in Indianapolis Indiana and the white limestone for that house comes from McCoury about 90 miles from my home. And it still worked to this day and they sell all over the world not just the United States. This house was wonderful Ken thanks again for another great video. And have a great and safe Fourth of July 🇺🇸
Ken, this is the most beautiful house you’ve ever highlighted! So ornate and intricate, with style and class throughout. Not overly pretentious or so grand as to boggle the mind, but just an elegant example of unique architecture and top-notch workmanship! Thanks so much to you and the owners for sharing this wonderful home!
So many things I like about this one. It's beautiful and functional both! The owners have done well by it.
I like that the current owners have not demolished the interior to match their more contemporary aesthetic. Many people would have stripped the interior down to white boxes. Love the dining room! The kitchen blends beautifully into the old house. The whole neighborhood looks quite spectacular. Very good video.
No sane person could have tampered with that wood work.
@@davem3789 Unfortunately, there are a lot of "insane" people out there.
I liked the fact the hall windows and the French doors were added much later but actually seem like they've always been there!
I'm about 30 minutes from Cochran House. I was born in East St. Louis Illinois and we traveled the Eads Bridge almost daily. I moved to Missouri about 32years ago and I'm very happy here. While I haven't seen the inside of this home the outside is beautiful. Thank you for the tour from St. Charles Missouri.
My favorite part of the house: all of it. Thanks Ken.
Like many towns of any size, I imagine; our town's old City Hall was built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. When my children were small, I used to drive around town and point out different architectural styles. Now, my children are adults, but whenever we pass City Hall; they both sigh, and say 'Yes, we know; Richardsonian Romanesque.' :) This is a lovely house, and I'm happy to see that when renovating the kitchen, they did not go all-out 'modern'; they respected the style of the house.
What a gorgeous house! It is livable but includes historical ambience. Just lovely! Thank you for taking on a tour.
This house is gorgeous both inside and out. Loved the newspaper adverts for staff too. That adds to the story.
Excellent views of the home ken so glad they preserved that one compared to the other ones that they have torn down I hope that lives on forever. Such beautiful architecture and beautiful design. Nobody can do that kind of work anymore we had quite the craftsman back at the turn of the century.
What a beautiful home with a fascinating story!!! It's nice to see that it's still standing & in such excellent condition!!! Thanks for sharing another fun video!!! 👍👍🙂
Thanks for the history of the owner. It is truly a beautiful house. I think my favorite thing in the house was the window seat. Always wanted to live in a house with one
Just a couple of thoughts. Since guests used the stairs in the "back hall" to reach the ball room the stairs had a more sophisticated design than typical "back stairs". I believe the cabinet in the third floor hall adjacent to the ball room was added at a later date . The architect would never have upset the symmetry of the ball room entry .
Love a good Richardsonian Romanesque manor.
I’ve seen an identical Butler’s pantry, right down to the huge sink at the end in a turn of the century “apartment dwelling”. Two doors down in another “apartment dwelling” I saw the same green Rookwood Pottery surrounding two fireplaces. The latter’s third floor was originally a ballroom and billiard room with a small kitchen and small servant’s room. Each floor had servants quarters. There was an English basement with more servants quarters, a wine cellar and storerooms. The call bells were still in the house. This brought back memories.
They did a beautiful job with modernization while preserving all the elegance and craftsmanship of the original design. I love this house and appreciate them sharing it with us all.
We wouldn't want to live inside a summertime "hot-box" no matter how elegant, modern upgrades are necessary
Beautiful home and thank you, Ken, for showing us around. Really enjoy your channel.
I love these old houses, I'm lucky enough to live in England so there are loads of old houses like this.
Although I do prefer the American wooden houses style.
As you get older you really appreciate the old saying "They don't made em like they used to"
Thank you for the house tour. Such a beautiful blend of old and new!
I am living my dream through you, Ken, with each episode! Old St. Louis architecture is an absolutely fantastic treasure in my heart. I specifically always enjoy a good butlers pantry!
It is hard to believe that at one point in time, anyone thought that putting an entire ship onto a platform and transport it across the North American continent was "more efficient" than putting the cargo onto existing railroad cars. Sounds incredibly weird today. The house, though, is magnificent! I would have been impressed by the detail carved into the exterior even if the interior was gutted. I absolutely loved the terraced patio. I have to say that, although the house is very ornate compared to any modern house, it is still, in a lot of ways, understated if compared to other stately residences of its age. I especially loved the open-air turret room off the ballroom upstairs. From there you can see that the other houses in the neighborhood are very nice, also. I think Ken could spend a lot of time here and I, for one, would watch them all. Thank you for the tour.
It used to take a couple of weeks to unload ships before forklifts
@@victoriawhite3662 Thank you. Even to the mid 20th century , on -loading and off-loading of a ship required multiple hundreds of hours of manpower. The use of sealed storage containers, lifts, and self-loading machinery is relatively recent. In the situation described in this video, the use of train cars, for delivery to a second ship, would have required a repeat of the off-load/on-load process. Even with rock-bottom wages for dock workers, that would have cut into a ship owner's profits. I can understand why a system for over-land transport of entire ships was considered.
Elblag boat canal lift in Poland is a small scale version of Eads idea.
What was my favorite part? My jaw dropped the minute you entered the front door and remained so practically throughout. What a beautiful home; oh and the "closet" that used to be a sitting room? Wow!!!! The only thing missing is an elevator for when you get older and find it harder to climb the stairs. 😉😅😁😂😂😂😂 Truly a very beautiful home. Thank you for sharing this house and home will us all.
What a GORGEOUS house!!! I love houses like this when they have some unique items in them, for example, the round radiator or the curved radiator. It shows that this house was built with love, not to show wealth but also love. Beautiful home BOTH inside and out!!!
I like how when they modernized the house they kept it true to the time period of the home. It has many beautiful and unique features. The ballroom is on the 3rd floor? Interesting and weird.
St Louis also home to the 1904 Worlds Fair. The old Pavillion is still there.
Striking Time Capsule wow gorgeous building, thanks for the tour.
What a beautiful house. I loved the round radiator. I once looked at a house, built circa 1900, not grand like the one you've just shown, that had a curved radiator against a curved wall in the dining room. It was a large radiator as well. So interesting but the round radiator seems really unique. As usual, enjoyed your video🌞
I have two curved radiators in my Queen Anne, mine are radiused to match the tower
@@johnmiller8975 the builders definitely paid attention to those details! I really like the house with the curved radiator but the basement had a dirt floor which really would not have been useable.
@@annescott2748 My floor is cement because they put in a cistern and needed the wall to hold, but all the other houses we looked at before 1920 had dirt
Just astonishing! So happy to see the original components have been honored to the best of their ability! What a great find! Thank you!
A highlight of traveling for me is to take time to tour places like you feature. I especially enjoy the period photos of interiors that no longer exist. Great channel.
Just gorgeous! I love all of the details and how the current owners kept so much from
the past. I also enjoyed how they made the kitchen functional for today’s needs, while keeping pieces of older styles. Thank you!
So wonderful too watch these videos because I can go back to view any room or facade, as many times as I want.
Thank you, you re an excellent guide for a fabulous home tour! Fav part: The view from the top with the little outdoor balcony
A beautifully done video. This house has been so freakishly lucky in the care, taste and good sense of its owners over the years. I couldn't help thinking how different the place would have looked covered with acres of 1890 darkish wallpaper and paint and how, at least for me, the interiors probably look better now than they would have originally.
Beautiful house and nicely preserved! So nice of owners to let us see its beautiful interior. Love how you explain every room with its furnishings. Pocket doors, wood panneling, window bench, butler's pantry...how i love old features! Would love to see the original bathroom to the house!
This home is beautiful, the owners have also decorated it beautifully, excellent tease. Love the story behind it.
An incredibly warm and inviting home. 💖
The owners have done a great job marrying the old house with tasteful modern furnishings. I could live in this house😊
Fabulous house - kudos to the present owners for sharing it with us. Great tour! Love your review of the details.
Favorite room - the butlers pantry. So many elements reminded me of my grandparents 1917 home in Cincinnati. Still dream of that place.
I’m so glad you do these homes. With gas prices I would never see these homes. So ty
I love this entire house. My favorite is the room with the built-in shelves, followed my the bedroom with the sitting room and window seat.
I love the whole thing! I recognized the Indiana Limestone exterior immediately. I lived in Indiana for a year. The whole town that I was in used the limestone for all government buildings including IU University Buildings.
Thank you for the tour of this incredible beautiful mansion. It's quite lovely!
When you're presenting such beauty, a Tux would be quite the outfit in showing such a marvelous property.
What an absolute beauty! And it still looks so pristine inside and out. Thank you for the tour! Probably my favorite place was the little area off the 3rd floor, how unique.
I like the way he gives a tour. Doesn’t rush through and spend a lot of time on light fixtures.
This home so much more tasteful than the huge castles that were built in large cities then were torn down because they couldn’t be maintained. Huge waste of money.
The butler's pantry was kept ! Sadly today many tear them out. A small critique , wishing the floor under the sink in the aforementioned pantry was recreated as Kalib has done in his home. Thank you for the tour..
My cousin owns a 1902 Queen Anne, which like this one has a ballroom on the 3rd floor. It also can only be accessed by taking the maids stairway up, which I find strange, especially due to belief that servants weren’t meant to be seen during this era. This home is gorgeous, I love the Richardsonian Romanesque style homes!
Many years ago, I was a kid and a classmate lived in a large old house, from the era of your cousins, in Sacramento CA and the ballroom was in the basement, which seems easier to get to over the 3rd floor. This one actually had street access to the ballroom. I was told then that the man who built the house had a lot of daughters
Joe Says: In the late 1990s I lived in a house in Minneapolis that was built in 1911 and had a 3rd-floor Ballroom as well... I rented from the homeowner, so technically it was shared housing because I used the bathrooms on lower floors and lived on that top floor in the 14' X 19' room which had been the Ballroom. A small, simple set of stairs led to it, and entering the space you were soon beside a door to a big square-shaped closet with coathooks on all 3 sides. A friend who loved architecture informed me that my space had been the Ballroom or 'party room' and the big closet was typical for the time of construction, since closets with hangers hadn't really come into style yet in 1911, and in Minnesota there would have been some big coats to hang in there! I observed another door which led to an unfinished attic space, probably always used for storage; that area had a door which led into yet another unfinished attic space which was more like the shape of a 20th-century walk-in closet (I joked, "Look! The attic has a garret!")... I described my new digs to a friend during a phone call to Florida. My friend, a native New Yorker, asked me for the address so she could send me a card to congratulate me; the house was on Park Avenue in Minneapolis. My friend exclaimed, "You're living in a Ballroom on Park Avenue! That's FABULOUS, Honey!" There was a cozy sense of space in that big room, since the walls took on a diagonal angle at perhaps 5 feet from the floorboards; the ceiling itself was flat across, but high enough to prevent one from ever feeling cramped. My cat and I were quite happy there!
@@cuucnsbfl9913 I enjoy looking at real estate sites, about 10 years ago I found a big home for sale in Detroit's Boston Edison with a ball room on the 3rd floor,. The concept seems so odd to have a party rooms up on the top floor up a narrow staircase.
Sounds like you had a great room to rent back then.
Joe W. Adds: I kind of figured that since I was "Up North" [instead of back home in Florida, where I grew up] the top-floor ballroom made good sense, because warm up could rise up even a narrow staircase and then the party goers would be comfortable enough to shed those big coats and show off their dance moves and sleek newfangled 20th-century fashions! In Florida, the ballroom might well have been a high-ceilinged space on the ground floor, and would've needed plenty of tall windows for ventilation - the idea being to keep the dancers from getting Too HOT!
What a gorgeous, historic home. Loved the tour. 🇨🇦
Beautiful home. Thank you for the wonderful video. St Louis has stunning homes still occupying the city. Again thank you.
The whole house is Absolutely Beautiful and well kept.
Romanesque is my very favorite style of vintage architecture. This is a masterpiece of design & craftsmanship. So glad it is preserved.
Love this house! My favorite area is the receiving room, or inglenook, with its cozy seating arrangement and beautiful fireplace. But really, what a gorgeous house! The original wood floors are so beautifully done! Wonderful to see the amazing craftsmanship in all of the intricately carved woodwork throughout, such as on the newel post on the main staircase and on all the fireplace mantels and also on the limestone relief work on the exterior of the home. Great tour! Thank-you Ken!
Come to Louisville, KY and tour the Conrad Caldwell house. One of the finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque in America. It sits on the corner of St. James Ct. and Magnolia right across from Central Park. The neighborhood is full of fantastic turn of the century homes and St. James Ct. and Belgravia Ct, (a pedestrian way), are absolutely beautiful for walking and taking in all of the beautiful architecture.
Great tour! Personally, I'd have decorated it with period art pieces and chandeliers from the same era as the construction of the house. Thanks, Ken!
I agree, the modern furnishings were a bit jarring. Particularly in the livingroom.
I wish the original interior had remained intact. It must have been magnificent.
Interesting history connected with this place. It’s easy to take older houses for granted but just imagine trying to replicate the quality and quantity of materials & craftsmanship shown here $$$$$$
Inside and out it’s an incredible structure. Very rare to see new construction at this level. Glad it stands to inspire us today.
All of this house is amazing, I would love to have it xx
All the fireplaces and windows stain glass windows and the amazing wood work throughout the whole house and all the antique furniture and everything ❤😊
Stunning Home. If old homes are your passion .. You can't beat St. Louis as a starting point!
Love that inglenook at the front door. Very classic architecture
Absolutely stunning home! 😍
Fantastic tour! Beautiful blend of modern conveniences with beautiful millwork from past generations. Thank you
Remarkable home. Love the wood. Really beautiful.
Gorgeous home
Such a lovely home, thank you for the tour ❤
This house is a gorgeous example of understated elegance. Absolutely beautiful!
Great research. You have a very calming voice, which I think makes your videos quite relaxing to watch. I do however have a preference for the shorter videos, due to (my) time constraints. Today’s house is a very well preserved mansion. The history of the overland venture was incredibly interesting. Cheers!
Love it! I just love these tours. Will you ever tour historic homes in other parts of the country? Just wondering 😊
We are hoping to get out to the East Coast soon, stay tuned!
@@ThisHouse Can't wait!
I’m so happy that this house is still standing!
Love how you describe everything about the house sure would love to live there 💕🌹
Loved the bathroom..that tub was beautiful!
While I've been enjoying the Gilded Age series, Saint Louis homes will always be my favorite.
Loved the pouch with the iron grates. Beautiful.
Appreciate the tour! Loved the house and history!
Ken, your voice is so pleasant and you guys put so much effort into these videos. Thank you🙂🙂🙃❤️
Wow! I always love the outside of these houses, and dislike in inside. not this house!
It’s just beautiful! , and so livable! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👋👋👋
This house speaks of: *Solid and Craftsmanship,* with a *Complete Consistent Upkeep + Full Maintenance.*
It also appears to be fluid solid, likely due to the Materials of Stone, Limestone, and possibly a Concrete reinforcing wood foundation.
It reflects Owners whom fully knew how to Manage Wealth and Money.
This factors into a most rare status for the subjects noted. Definitely in the lower double digits, for the entire USA.
Thank you for sharing. Evidently I was born to poor and a century to late. But a fella can dream.
Another great tour, thanks Ken. Impressive how the home has been updated. Without the updates standing out. The old and new blends well.
I discovered Portland/Westmoreland in my 20s and it cemented my love of Real Estate. For 20+ years selling Real Estate in DC I still have not seen a more beautiful collection of houses than those 2 streets in St Louis. It is really a special neighborhood.
As always another great house. Love the 40s bathroom and the turrent at the end. Never miss a show.
Absolutely love the house, it's details and the limestone exterior 🥰 Personally, I think it would benefit with a black roof rather than the red one...but that's a minor issue.
I feel like if Ken came and toured me around my own house I'd have a new found appreciation for it! Another great and well presented video. Thanks Ken ! :D
Very beautiful pad! Current owners are adding to it's history nicely. I'm glad they were not afraid to make it there own.
That little round radiator was great!
Excellent tour. Thank you.
Gorgeous home, thx TH for taking us along for another adventure.. take care my friend...
Hi there, I must say that this is a fantastic home and the owner must really enjoy living in it.
Incredibly preserved, while continuously lived in and lovingly used. That unique pedestal radiator tho!!😍
I love this house! Love your videos.
What an amazing home and so well preserved, thank you for sharing!
You do an excellent job, Ken!! I’m so grateful I found this channel!
Great tour. You are so knowledgeable. A pleasure to watch.