Abandoned- Classic Art Deco Home lost forever! Extra home built Art deco style also.
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2022
- Hey house lovers and explorers!
This classic Art Deco home is now gone and has been lost forever and I have to thank Joanie who is local the Findon area where is once stood as she notified me when the demolition fences went up around it. I quickly went there and filmed it right on dusk just n case they started picking it apart the following day which they did! I did get footage the following day also which you will see.
The home was built about 1952/53 and Dr K E Lovell first appeared at the address in 1954 so it seems the place was used initially a Doctors surgery initially and then later in it`s life during it`s final years as you will see.
One of the better distinct examples of Art Deco around Adelaide and although the use of it being a clinic sanitized some areas of the inside there is some amazing features and rooms that bring yo back to the 50`s immediately :-)
The second home I added was also built early 50`s with the same streamed lined "Waterfall" Art deco architecture that came back strong post WW2. It had been altered inside and remodeled here and there but still very much a retro experience also!
Both now gone.......Hope you all enjoy the video, cheers for watching :-)
Gorgeous house, hurts my heart to see them torn down. Thanks for capturing the Beauty on film before they go.
Another one hits the dust. Art Deco was a short period and should be preserved..The bathroom was a wow...thank you👍😊
Cheers Talk Talk :-)
Of course there will always be Art Deco being preserved in Cities and Towns like New York, Chicago, and Napier.
Would you live at the corner from 2 busy roads? Beautyfull house but wrong place.
We need to try to save Art Deco architecture. And try to repurpose it as gift shops, bookstores, and coffee shops. Or buy them and restore them to their previous glory. Thanks for letting me share.
Shame, shame,shame! So sad that beautiful well built homes with character are never appreciated! You will never get such beautiful everlasting bathrooms in that style again! They have lost the ability to build quality and stylish homes and their interiors!
I love your explores Paul and your appreciation for clas and quality. Keeping on keeping on 👏
Thanks heaps for the support Maureen :-)
Some day our next generations will regret all of this. I know progress has it’s place. But History is important too. I’m so sad to see all these beautiful home with the fate. Thank you so much for trying to preserve what you can. I look forward every week for the new ones. But, I’m also enjoying watching all your past ones. God bless you.
Well said Snow Bunny and thanks for the support :-)
God, I would’ve loved to live in that house. It looked incredibly beautiful even in its end days.
Got to admire the architect for adding a faux 2nd floor to give the building verticality as well as a break room / balcony for family! Interesting that the bathroom included a floor level shower and spectacular color combination.
The most fascinating explores of two unique 1950s Art Deco style Adelaide homes. 🏠The first home had so much character both externally and internally, with the original kitchen cabinets and pink bathroom with the black tiles. I really enjoyed the explores thanks Paul. 🏡
Hi Julz! :-) Glad you enjoyed again, thanks for the support again Julz, cheers! :-)
What a cool old house. Thanks for going back in the daylight so we could see the layout better. It's too bad it was demolished. It must have been a gorgeous home in its day. 🇨🇦
wow this first one was an Art Deco dream, RIP beautiful one
Love the Art Deco style. So glad you got to record it before being demolished.
Since i was a kid i loved this place. Was sad to see it go but thanks for capturing 😢
I’d love to live in that as long as it was away from the city
That art Deco looks cool at night with the street light shining on it. And I do a job just around the corner from there
Kind of appropriate I just caught it first at dusk in that light hey Jeff. Cheers mate :-)
Definitely. Perfect shot
This is a beautiful house shame it has to be torn down...I would live in this house right now today with all the original things the same way. Art Deco love the style and you took beautiful still shots
Great memories. Thanks for posting. I used to visit this surgery for many years. My doctor orginally had a small practice in the shopping centre adjacent until moving here in the early 90's (93?). It was a general gp practice. The front room was the waiting area with a reception area on the other side of the room. Main dr room was the 2nd on the left from main entrance. Other rooms were also consult rooms. Last time I was here was around 2012, Dr also had another practice on south rd Ridleyton which I usually went to in later years until I moved out of the area. I'm not sure the dr is practicing still as I tried to book appt years ago but was told he was no longer a gp. This is a shame as he was a great gp who was a few decades too young to retire. It was his practice. I'm not sure but I think he may have owned the property.
Hi Donna :-) Thanks heaps for all the detailed recollections and info, I always love hearing from locals who know these old places. Such a shame the place was not kept as there was plenty of space where the car park was to build something. Cheers for watching :-)
He was my doctor also and was practicing until just recently and he was a great doctor. Watching this video go up within weeks of hearing he’s not practicing anymore was very weird and sad all at once
What a deceptively clever design of the first house, tricking us into thinking it was double storey. I loved the 1950s wall sconces either side of the front door. Those black tiles in the bathroom still look brand new shiny. I haven't seen any tiles these days that match the quality of back then. Congrats on another amazing episode 👍
Please write a book with lots of pictures and history and also include a dvd with your documented explores. It would be worth every penny!
Beautiful beautiful house. I love the bathroom
I'm glad you like it Boosh Scarlett :-)
Omg, how stunning was the first home!!
Black and pink bathroom nice, so classy
What a beautiful example of Streamline Moderne architecture! So sad that it wasn’t saved and restored…
What great art deco style houses. Bless Joanie for giving you the heads up on the first one. It's practicality criminal to destroy these. Thank you for documenting so carefully. Stay well, God bless.
That first one was so beautiful to bad its gone now so much history
One of my favorite houses you have explored.
Would fit into an episode of Poirot.... Nice !
Curved windows are wow, like walking into another dimention. Love it !
Incredibly, beautiful Art Deco home, monstrous this masterpiece was demolished!
What a beautiful place
Oh maaaan👍🏻🤍 it was amazing!!🤍
OMG! That black an pink bathroom is my favorite! Loved it! ☺💋🇺🇸
Also love the Do-whop music. ♥️
Glad you enjoyed Alma! :-)
My dream house just big enough pink black reflections everywhere balcony beautiful
I remember this place , it's on the same block as my grandparents house was. 40yrs ago I was riding my bike past or skating past during every school holidays. It was a doctor's at that time.
Our town in England used to have an art deco cinema and restaurant with an outdoor swimming pool, built in the 1920s. Knocked down in the 2000s despite public attempts to preserve the buildings. It’s all gone now, replaced by hideous flats.
Seems to be happening most places 😒
Love this house and the song!
I'm really surprised this house was abandoned.
I just want to say I love how you go from room to room in order. It's really easy to understand where you are in the house, you don't jump from room to room getting the viewer wondering where you are in the house. I really didn't care for the art decor homes but they were nice. I also think the those rooms in the first house were exam rooms too.
Every time when you film outside of the homes I keep hoping I will hear a kookaburra bird.
Thanks Bluerose! :-) That is exactly why I do it as I hate not knowing the layout when watching others! haha. Cheers for the support :-)
What an absolute waste & shame a beautiful art deco house I can't believe they knocked it down thanks Paul Jonnie x
So sad it's gone. Thank you for doing this video before it was gone. Just purchased a home built in 1922 that was also first owned by a doctor, trying to restore it to mostly its original form (its currently gutted). Love these videos!
What a magnificent house 🥰 that would be my dream home, such a wonderful period for design and all original! This is such a travesty to lose such an architectural gem, what is wrong with people! 😡 thankyou so much for taking the time to document this stunning place
That was fantastic!!!!....growing up I always wanted to see behind thoes walls!!!!
Thanks.
That was such a cool house...retro. Just my style!
Thank you for showing us this very, unique home and business building, it's so inter string and cool! My heart sank when you said they tore it down! That's such a shame. Love your music! Take care care, Paul, stay safe, God bless you!!
Glad you enjoyed it Marie! :-) Thanks for the support
Always sad to see these houses empty and being torn town.
Thanks for posting, watching from Melbourne,, the balcony view of the first house would have stretched all the way to the hills pre-that servo opposite being built. Designed for a different time.
Hi waterbottle :-) Yep a magnificent view slowly eroded to now eliminated all together. Cheers for watching :-)
This was the offices of a doctor I saw from 2003 til just last year.. it was an office consult rooms for at least 3 doctors at a time with examination rooms too
This was crazy to watch! Thanks for a piece of my own nostalgia 😊
What a shame! It’s such a unique and different space from modern square homes
What a crying shame to see that rotten rubble. That place was beautiful.
I would be in Heaven, If I was able to restore this.WoW
Hi Paul. What a great house. Since that building had, at one time, been a medical office do you think those first two rooms after the bathroom could have been exam rooms? With the sink cut outs on the counters and the large number of large and small drawers that's what they reminded me of.
Hi Deborah :-) Yes I think you are definitely right about that! So obvious to me now! haha cheers for watching :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 where is this home ?
@@carmenburgos1616 Some folk just don't listen! The address was given, in detail, at the beginning.
Looks like an old rock ⭐ stars home 🏡🏠
Art Deco so elegant in its day. Such a pity people dont cared for the design any longer. I would gladly have lived in either of these houses. The fact they have been demolished probably for car parks is so sad. So many people homeless or cant find rentals in this day and age all who would gladly call them home. Thanks for showing us what used to be. cheers from WA
i like the architecture of the house , kinda original
They leve all the lovey old homes up for anyone
What a pity Adelaide is losing so much older architecture. Seems there's not much protection for history (sad as Australia's history is rather young compared to others) and what usually replaces the good stuff is modern crap built with crap. Hope you guys manage to generate some concern and motivate your fellow citizens to enact some protections for this fantastic history!
Well said motoxdudeIE :-) Cheers for watching
Trouble is with forming a protection group is that it will become just that, another platform for the corrupt to exploit....If it grows legs it will be infiltrated by the political agendrists....
What a shame. It's such a distinctive building.
Love that I'm still finding vids I haven't seen yet!
That bathroom is almost clean!! Beautiful ❤️ omg, so grateful they didn't touch it!! Surely they'll be back for those floors.
I feel sick when I see them smashed. Even if I didn't like the house.
I'd prefer to see them rot in the country than share this fate.
Love all of your explorations. 😎
Another beautiful unique Adelaide home gone. Such a shame.
Thanks for the video Paul.
They don't have to tear that amazing house down! I'd live there! Wow.. gotta love those sexy curves!! This one made me cry, brother.
I love the 'out-of-focus' floor tiles in the bathrooms in the second home 😀
Yay! Thank you haha :-)
Gorgeous waterfall art deco home. I like the original kitchen & bathroom of the first house. Glad you got it it in the nick of time, awesome video Paul, 👍
I really liked the bathroom and balcony in the medical building. The rounded rooms in the second house were interesting, although a decorators nightmare. Thanks, Paul
I felt a great sadness in that bedroom with the cabinets, and then, the notes to God taped inside of one. They moved me, and I still feel the despair in the words. I know that her faith rewarded her in the end. I am praying for this soul.. Seldom do I pick up vibes like this from a video, but I cannot deny them. God bless, and thanks for the tour of these two amazing, old Adelaide treasures.
Hi Dianne, yes when I did read the note it was sad also :-( Thanks for watching
Wow, would love to see photos of the original interior. My nan had the exact same kitchen cabinets, in green, with the push button handles and little vent port holes. She had a similar bathroom. Always seemed so glamorous when I was little. They had a needle shower installed also. Very Hollywood 😀
Loved the first house. For most of the best years of my childhood (age 5-12), I lived next door to a very similar home. And I was in love with it! It did have a huge sweeping enclosed porch that ran all along the side (it was on a corner lot) with curved corners and all windows like those in the living room. That porch area had a tiled floor and an entrance to the house that was set across the corner where the porch met the house with 3 steps leading to that door. The steps were shallow but huge semicircles with the center being the that corner. It was beautiful inside and very like that one. It didn’t seem out of date at all at the time since this was early to mid 60’s. It’s still standing, but is unrecognizable now. It’s been “modernized” into oblivion a few times since then, even removing the windows and incorporating that indoor porch space into the house and squaring up the corners. Now it’s just an ugly, squat block of a building. 😭
Thanks for showing these to us, Paul.
I really enjoyed this ! I felt sad to see it get demolished
Good find it was my favourite one yet !
Glad you enjoyed it Anita! :-)
Loved your intro mate well done. The place looks so good at dusk she shines and makes me sob to think she has gone when I didn't see a crack in sight, wow that balcony so cool. Im glad you got to see it before they took of the roof sheets. And cactus already that didn't take long. The jazzy music loved it mate just a fantastic find and explore.
the continued loss of great design - truly such a pity
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OMG love the music intro xxx
What a cool house!!
Too bad it's gone...😒
It used to be a doctor's surgery. Dr. Tollis.
Both were very pretty homes and the pink and black bath was awesome . Those round rooms are amazing to look at but .a major pain to decorate
Thanks, Paul. As always, well done plus great stills in Facebook. Ken
wow what a fabulous house wonderful job of filming and history
Glad you enjoyed Riley, thanks for watching :-)
Aww, it is so beautiful, and your pictures are gorgeous, especially the night ones. You could blow them up and sell them I recon.. (use to be a photographic artist in a past life) - What a gorgeous old building. Thank you Joney - Wowbies, you were lucky to catch it when you did. They sure did make short work of it the next day. Thanks for a great explore Paul!
As usual a great upload,, always appreciate the back story which makes it extra interesting. Love the bathroom and style..👌
Thanks again Buddy! Many more to come :-)
Good morning Paul,I could see MONSIEUR POIROT, living in the first one ,I had a bit of a 💧 Knowing that that beauty was demolished,how much that house could say after all those years how sad is now going to be a what ever they'll build ,that would never match it , great video , thankyou for documenting it .big 🤗 and have a great week from a Frenchy in Australia 🇫🇷🇦🇺👍👍
I knew you would enjoy this one Francoise :-) Thanks so much for watching again :-)
I had no idea they built so futuristic in the 1950s! lol wow so cool 😄 and the shower is in the strangest position ever! lol
Hi SMiggley :-) Yes a former resident has told me there used to be a partition around the shower but was removed at some point. Cheers for watching :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 ohhhhhh!! now I get it haha! I thought it was some art Deco futuristic design 🤣 lol And thankyou for your channel! I've watched every single upload and get very excited when I see you've uploaded a new one lol I'm also in Adelaide! always wondered if Adelaide had abandoned houses 🤔 I watch alot of American, European and French abandoned homes but your channel has definitely answered that question for me lol keep up the good work my friend 🙌❤🇦🇺
Paul, nice to see this week's video glad you were able to share with us before they were demolished.
Cheers Sandra :-)
Great video and education. Thanks for sharing and I learned so much.
What cool old homes!! That first one was beautiful, except for maybe the location, too much traffic to be nice to live there. I am a big fan of the art deco/Frank Lloyd Wright look. So sad they knock them down. The 2nd house definitely had a remodel in the late 1970's, The first place I rented when I got out of the Army was built in the late 70's and had that exact same linoleum flooring in the kitchen, and those triangle paint jobs in the bedroom are a classic late 70's vintage. As always great job and thank you!!
Art Deco homes are so unique complete with that dramatic black bathroom!! Wow 😯
I can’t believe this beautiful home is gone ... that era of house is my absolute favourite ... I would give up my modern home for one like this in a heartbeat ... thank you for yet another fantastic video ... stay safe out there.
Thank you so much for this vid! I have watched that house for years and always wondered what it was like inside. Great Shame it's now gone 😔
That first one - breathtaking mansion one day; next day rubble. :( That note on the cabinet at the end of hte second one - super creepy.
I was thinking here in the states looked like late 50's houses.
Hi Paul! :-) wow wow classic Art Deco beautiful and the bathroom black and pink loved it. The balcony was nice sit outside and have a drink and watch the sunset. Second home was very classic too shame they are both gone forever. Thank you really enjoyed it so glad you got to document it before it was gone. :-) :-) ❤️
Hi Megan :-) I have another art deco one come where the interiors are all art deco and the outside not so much! :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 cool 😎 can’t wait to see it! :-)
Good explore Paul, I loved the first house with the lovely bathroom and the second house bay window. Great that people are tipping you off big thank you to them. :)
I love Art Deco fascinating design era, part of me would loved to have lived then.
Bless you for capturing all these beautiful homes and to be recorded. Utter shame they are being demolished, and no gone, my heart is heavy.
Lovely song also as a backsound
What a huge shame that was. The surgery house was amazing. The bathroom was stunning Such a shame its gone.
Love the kitchen in the second house. Love the waterfall/curved bay windows too.
I'm speechless what a beauty , such a shame its gone but not forgotten .🦘
The cabinets with sinks were probably waiting areas at a doctors office.
Oh wow I love this one.it takes you back in time.it reminds me of a ⛵ boat.this was when houses were made to last .and you can almost hear the sound of days gone by.it is a treasure.💎
Why do the older Adelaide homes have that basin, usually sunken, by the back door? My mom, son and I love your videos. We are in Texas near Houston on the humid Gulf Coast. Thanks!
Nice finds, Art deco is off the scale here lol.. Great work + i do like the 2nd intro you put in the 1st vid here too. Cheer MM
I quite like the 50’s Art Deco, imaginative.
Horrific that it has gone! Australia is terrible at protecting our heritage. Thanks so much for capturing this before it disappeared.
Knew that place well used to go past it most days on the way to Seaton Primary School in the 70s. Now has 3 townhouses getting built on the same land. It was a doctor's surgery at one stage in the eighties or nineties. On the corner of Findon Road and Balcombe Avenue
I would love to have this house very nice house