Exploring a Gorgeous ABANDONED 1876 Heritage Estate Home - How Can They Tear This Down???
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It's not often that I come across such a spectacular abandoned farmhouse to explore. Built-in 1876, this home has stood the test of time for the last 147 years. Sitting on 8.5 acres of land and featuring beautiful gingerbread decorations, dormers, stunning woodwork, and a beautiful porch, it's been abandoned for 4 years. The home hosted grand garden parties with attendance reaching over 5000 people, and in 1891 the lush lawns, gardens and orchards were illuminated with electric arc lights which happened to be one of the earliest uses of electricity in the Township. In 2019 the property sold for 14 million dollars as vacant land zoned for commercial use. While the house has heritage designation, it still seems like they want it demolished to make way for new businesses. With the surrounding area already under heavy redevelopment, it's only a matter of time until this amazing piece of history is lost forever unless the city steps in to properly protect it.
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SOMEONE….ANYONE, PLEASE REGISTER THIS HOME AS A “HISTORIC PROPERTY”!!!!
How do you do that?
I agree this is beautiful and it looks like it’s still savable.
We're is this home?
Unfortunately, placing a property on the National Historic Properties does not necessarily save it. The owners have the right to do as they please with it. Being listed does give them certain tax advantages and a status symbol of living in an historic home. The best thing for this home would be for a local group of historic preservationists to organize and try to persuade the owners to sell it and not destroy it. Perhaps they can buy it and try and find a buyer.
Putting it on the registry doesn't guarantee saving it. We knew a house that was over 150 years old and had a registry plaque on it but then after the owner sold it somebody bought it and tore it down. Historical value doesn't mean anything in this country, only money does.
I hope they don't demolish it or let it decay. It's such an amazing house
Have you ever come across anything that scared you silly?
Unfortunately, this gorgeous home is toast. It’s sickening!
There is not one house built today that will be around in 150 years!
@debbieflaherty1975 high population = poor quality houses. There's simply too many people living in this country.
THEY? Who’s money are you going to spend?
@@Vaxxedhole,
The almighty 💴 is the reason!
If walls could talk...I would love to know the history of all these old, beautiful homes.
What a beautiful home, it's to bad that they can't save and preserve it and not raze it, you will never see homes like this again --- 😢
What a shame to let a beauty go like this beautiful house what a shame, I believe this is all about greed
yes, a little tlc is all these house needs to safe it so sad to destroy this home.
@@DeniseroldanCoffee Well, are you going to put up the 150k to bring the property up to code?
Beautiful
If it wasn't so expensive I would love to live in it
Two kitchen areas - the first one was used as a food prep area and for canning their own food from the garden. Very typical of farm large families. Lots of shelves in large closets to store the canned food. All summer was spent growing and canning their own food to get through winters. Rare to go to town and grocery shop. All food was from the farm.
He missed on the butcher block cabinet island it has a hinged opening and underneath it is a kitchen sink.
What a awesome find!! This house is/was so BEAUTIFUL!!!! Ty!! 😊❤
They may have been using the kitchen like room as a studio or craft room. The kitchen was disappointing
That makes perfect sense, thank you!
@jonjarr
Since it was used as some type of venue, that kind of kitchen is also used as a food prep area by caterers, no need for a sink or stove, just plate the food and serve.
I do wonder about no running water or a stove if it was used for canning food.
As someone who restored historic housing in my town and a hotel they wanted to initially raze it down and I fought for the historical value. It was auctioned off and the new owner decided to buy it after seeing my photos from the original restoration I helped with as the Hotel stood when it was printine in 2000. My heart kept with joy as it was saved and is now the pride of downtown again. I love these kinds of videos. Thank you for sharing. I hope someone saves it too.
Google maps look up this house and call the counties newspapers and ask around for finding out how to save it!!
If you want to see a beautiful, restored historic hotel, look up the Windsor Hotel in Americus, GA. It is gorgeous.
This is the house they used in the Hallmark movie, A Christmas Visitor. I loved the house in the movie and wondered where it was. It looks gorgeous in the movie!
Oh my gosh, what a wonderful find.
Where is the house located?
I found the movie. They don't show much of the inside but it appears kitchen was changed.
The first kitchen was the original and that second kitchen with the stairs is an addition. The original kitchen was small and had a wall there that butcher block is now. The other side was an eat in area. Pretty cool watching the movie and seeing it. The stairs leading to the basement were outside of the house.
Thanks for the info
They should restore this place and rent it out for filming
It looks like a doll house ❤
The first section you were in is absolutely phenomenal. It would be a waste if they don't at least recycle that beautiful wood. Amazing find and thanks for the explore.
Stripping and Refinishing painted -over wood is a monsterous task and never comes out like it did before.
My god how can they leave this home to decay or vandalism!! It a work of art and should be cherished and preserved!! Unreal!! The wine storage/ cellar is a look at how grand this home was and what a celebrated place it was for the previous owners! It should be criminal to destroy a place this spectacular!
Amazing house ..I hope someone restores it. I could see a unique restaurant or B&B. This would have been a good house to play hide -n- seek in as a kid!
Great idea! I would absolutely love to stay at a Bed and Breakfast like this. And it would be a wedding venue like no other, too.
That house is amazing it would be a great place for veterans or a woman's shelter or maybe even a retirement home My point is is completely salvageable and needs to be saved not demolished that's crazy it's so beautiful 😢
It’s a total shame that they can’t save this house. It’s so beautiful, but I’m guessing since it’s sold, as just land that the amount of money it would cost to fix the house would be more than it would be to knock it down and build a new one, that’s usually how it works. It’s kind of pathetic to lose the beauty and the history. 😢
Me mudare pronto a esa casa
Oh my days. What a beautiful old historical home. To tear it down for commercial purposes is so very sad. I wish I could afford to restore a place like that. I would love to live in a home like. It is stunning. What a tragedy.
Same. Wish I could buy it. Can you imagine the history? I could get my grown boys to fix it up! The property could be a historical inn, an event space. Other countries have buildings thousands of years old, but in America we are so quick to demolish our much younger historical buildings. So sad.
They want to tear it down because the murders that happened in it.
I hope the city does whatever it can to save this house
What you thought was a dining room is actually the parlor. Yes you started at the front door foyer. The ceilings were so tall to allow cooling breezes to take the heat out through the upper windows.
That is a gorgeous home, hopefully they don't knock it down
That was the best abandoned house tour I've seen. You went slowly through it opening doors and showing details. Your speech was paced. Your emotions were controlled. Loved this video because of your presentation.
Most abandoned house video's are rushed and they talk too fast and too excited which shows through them rushing through.
Good job. Subscribed.
Absolutely agree...!! Excellent presentation Noah..!!
It looks like they are trying to do a good job of letting it deteriorate to the point that it needs to be demolished. The house is fighting back pretty good though. I would say that the 3 story section was built first and then they kept adding on to the back. When a really old house has a step up to the bathroom, especially on upper floors, it’s so they could run the pipes in. If you were to pull up that floor you would probably see some of the original floor under there. It was weird that so many bedrooms in that section had deadbolts on the doors. That’s not something that you see often in a family home. A locking doorknob yes but a deadbolt? On that many doors? Looks like it had multiple boarders living there. I’ve seen the trapdoor entrance to a basement before and that one doesn’t look like it was visited often. I got the feeling that there was at least one other entrance somewhere because of the wine cellar. Who would want to go through all that to get a bottle of wine? Maybe that’s how they controlled their drinking 😂. Nice house that could still be saved although I don’t know of many families that would need something so large and hard to navigate. You could get lost in that place.
So my theory is that either the stairs to the cellar were originally outside of the house (Servants would have to go get that stuff anyway) and then just built their addition over top of it.
My other theory is that there was originally stairs to go down under the original staircase (Which they then blocked off and turned into a little closet) and move them elsewhere. I dunno why you would do that but it's pretty common to stack staircases in almost all homes, old or modern.
Though I do think originally the cellar entrance would've been from outside the house as I believe that was more common in that time period.
And also they clearly blocked off the servants entrance in the upper levels with their renos.... No way it would've been separate because having servants go up the main staircase to get up to the bedrooms was a no-no. It's why they had a separate staircase going from the kitchen up to their bedrooms, but there for sure would've been a door to get to the family's end of the bedrooms so they could do their general housekeeping and such up there. It's weird the way the renovations blocked certain stuff off, etc. But does make you think it was not a single family home by the time people left it... Must've been some kind of communal place or something.
Can you please keep us posted on tnis property. It deserves to be saved. Does anyone know where it is. Perhaos making it known may help save it.
Beautiful home. Such a shame it could be torn down. Wish someone would save it.
They need to save this beautiful home! Too many of these lovely homes are destroyed for no rational reason!
They tear down one gorgeous historic home to build 5 pieces of junk cookie cutter houses. I don’t understand why these amazing places aren’t cherished!
Bigger population = more land for housing needed.
@@JennifermcintyreThe houses built today will never last as long as the houses from back then have lasted. Everything back then was like art work, it's like people really took pride in what they built. But today it's all about money and that's it, that's why houses today and a lot of other things are made like crap because they don't care all they want is mass production so that they can get paid, And it's so sad. But to tear down historical houses makes me really want to cry because if they just received a little bit of TLC they would out last us all! 😸
I'm really happy to see that there's no vandalism
My husband and I built a home built in the 1750’s. We found everything we needed to bring the home up to date. You can find lights and light switches to match the originals. This home has the same banister’s my home has. Well my daughter bought it and lives in it now. But you can bring an old home back to its original build pretty much.
You BUILT???? a home in the 1750's?????? I'm assuming you meant ...you BOUGHT a home that was built in the 1750s.
@@dancingdream2640 sorry. My misprint. We purchased a home that was built sometime in the 1750’s. We refurbished it. We lived there for over 30 yrs. Now my daughter owns and lives in it. At our age we needed a less maintenance challenging home. Thank you for catching my error and for letting me know in a kind way so that I could fix it.
We lived in and rebuilt this home. This is what the print should say. My error. Sorry for the confusion.
@@deniseemond9263 It's okay, 🌸 I KNOW what you meant. 🌸
But there wasn't electricity until 1901🤔
There's no reason to tear down this master piece
Sure there is. It's called profit. Think of the Applebee's or Hooters restaurant that would fit on that house's footprint. That's what all developers do.
Sure there is. Build 4 houses in its place.
Abandoned and still the floors were shiny and gorgeous. We are disgusting for letting this happen to these works of ART
My guess is that the wooden section in the back was added, and the wooden section on what you are calling the back was an add on as well. I think that the original home was the rectangle two story brick section. I love the ceiling medallions!
It's like 3 homes in 1. Beautiful house!
I think you'll find the original house is everything before the kitchen. What you called the back porch is actually the original front door. The small white staircase is the original servants/maids staircase. The Victorians did actually paint the woodwork white - they thought it looked more hygenic! Beautiful house - would be a crime to knock it down.
Thank you for commenting on this. I was hoping somebody would correct the assumption that the porch and entrance were the back part of the home. The lovely staircase and opposite parlors also confirm that portion of the house as the front of the home.
Love how Noah explains every detail!! Great explore of a beautiful old home! 🥰🥰🥰
It’s a shame to loose all of that molding and flooring.
Hope the house will be saved and restored. Thank you for the tour!
Even if this house will be demolished, at least you did an amazing job at documenting it for all to see. Thank you Noah 🫶
Nicest house I’ve seen on here in a while! Great find. Shame to think of that house being demolished.
Absolutely stunning. I love antiques and old homes. If only they could talk and tell you all of the secrets it holds.❤❤
Omg if they want the land to be business they could still leave this!!! How cool would it be to have sort of an antique mall in that place? Antiques, arts, books, musical instruments… I hope they keep it 😢
Thank you for showing us this house. It's absolutely gorgeous. Can you imagine being a kid and living in this house? It would be so much fun playing hide and seek here!
It just baffles me that they'd want to demolish that house.
This house is still in amazing condition & can totally be preserved!! I really hope they don’t demolish :(
Should never be demolished. I’ll move in ❤
This is an amazing home! OH the possibilities, Inn or B&B, event center or just someone with a passion to restore it to it's original glory.
Blame the owners, they want the money, and don’t care about it’s historical history.
It should be moved and restored. It’s beautiful. It has a history I’m sure, needs to be preserved as so many others do if possible. It’s sad to see homes of this age to be demolished. 😢
What an amazing home. I can never comprehend why people often paint over the original colored brown woodwork and trim. Or even the bricks on the fireplace. It ruins the whole aesthetics of a home of this age.
The land developers appear to be purchasing up all the large acres of land in Canada (with beautiful vintage homes on them)to be used for building condos, apartment complexes, etc. Due to lack of affordable housing for the low income. So it's awesome that explorers like yourself are documenting them for the future generations.
My only HUGE negative is when a majority of the explorers find an opened window, rather than go ahead and shut it, most of them look out it and walk away, leaving it opened. Which allows birds to fly in and stray animals, often just to meet their demise, also allows rain in, which creates mold, causing faster decaying of the pad. Please close the windows in these abandoned places. But, it could potentially save an innocent bird or animal from a painful demise.
I believe what appeared to be a kitchen with no sink may have at one time been the kitchen. Now probably more of a chef area for the preparation of food for larger parties. And the newer kitchen was then placed in that back area. What to do with ALL the rooms in a house so large?? Invent new ways to use extra rooms. Which is nuts!! Just to show your wealth!! Then you die and leave all those materialistic belongings behind so rust, thieves and Mother Nature can eventually take what is hers.
Thank you, Noah, for sharing this extraordinary pad. Dream on! Dream on!!
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Kitchen sink under butcher block counter, hinge flip. Go back and L👀K.
Nastily painted white stair steps that bled into the bottom of rails. 😧
Once a very stunning home that obviously no one took w them.😁
This house is gorgeous! It could be restored & become a historic house. It could maybe be turned into a bed & breakfast place. I sincerely hope they don't demolish it.
Oh how I'd love to own that house, beautiful, I'm so intrigued with those old homes, their detail and just everything about them! Thank you!
13:28 Never in my life have I seen a fake fireplace without a chimney and in a kitchen island at that! 🤪
They did a fair job on the remodel but if it was me I would have done it period correct, pushbutton light switches, clawfoot tub, plumbing fixtures etc.
Still, too nice to tear down but...
Thanks for the tour Noah!
🤠👍👍👍👍
28:35 Brandon abandoned must have forgot to close it when he went out on the roof to retrive his crashed drone.
35:13 Yes, very creepy, I'm always repulsed by these empty "inspirational/motivational" quotes plastered on a wall that assume one is stupid and worthless.
One says, "persist until something happens" (As a child, I tried that once. 🤕)
Here's my inspirational contribution,
"When life deals you lemons, rob a bank!"
😉👍
6:06 transoms
7:44 central vacuum (?)
9:00 sitting room
13:45 Butlers pantry
15:20 wedding / reception venue - I love this idea!
21:00 kids room (young - ish3-7)
32:00 guitar holders
38:00 musty & moldy, pls wear a mask for protection(n-95)!
Thank you so much for panning speed just right; plus, you stop & focus on the things I want to see.
I wish you would pause and show out of each of the windows for a moment - especially with those gorgeous views - I love to imaging I’m back in time 150 years ago. Also, I’m in San Diego, California so no lush views like those here.
What state was that in?
Great find; thank you!!
Those windows look Italianate stlye
Just like America...tear it down, build apartments or whatever. I want to cry everytime I view videis like this. Also, when I view videos of explorations in Europe of the beautiful abandoned places but no plans to demolish. A crying 😢 😭 shame.
Absolutely beautiful and stunning house. What a shame that it wasn’t taken care of. Such a waste. Love this place
I think the basement staircase in the kitchen was a outside walkin before the addition was built
Nobody knows what have to until lost it . What a beautiful house I hope the city preserve that gem.
I hope the city does steps in + doesn't allow them to tear down this beautiful heritage home!
The craftsmanship of this Victorian place is shear beauty. ❤Thanks for showing. 😊
That's a perfect idea, a place to rent out. Weddings , receptions, anniversary parties, etc.
This historic property should be restored and preserved, not demolished. Protecting historic architecture for posterity is a worthy endeavor. I really hope it is not swept away enitirely.
Gorgeous home
That last staircase was enclosed but at one time u can see it was opened because of the baniser and railing. So sad that this home is gonna be torn down. It can be restored.
What a shame so much detail being destroyed. I love Victorian architecture
What you say isn't the front I am pretty sure it is because you come into the front stairs. Somebody just moved things around alot
I more meant in it's current state.
That was definitely an entry foyer with doors in from the outside and also another set into the house.
Noah, you created an awesome video of this precious treasure from the past.
Thank you for sharing…
This house is absolutely amazing. I swear I’ve had dreams with houses that look like this.
This is gorgeous!!!! Can't believe no one will save it! Totally renovate it as a event center with a wine cellar!
An architectural scavenger’s treasure trove. Sad it couldn’t be kept up.
The first room you went into would have been the parlour - where they would entertain guests . The pocket doors would open to the smaller dining room. You'd have the doors closed so the servants could prepare the dinner table and the doors would be opened when dinner was served. The formal part of the house is a mirror image of my Victorian - though this is upscaled from my home.
And like my home originally - no connection between servants and owners portion of the house. That possible explains why the two door ways to the sun port. There may have been a wall between the two. It's too bad the addition was so poorly built. It's likely the primary reason why this is slated for demo. You'd have to tear off all the newer addition then start renovating from there.
I sure hope someone can get this home protected from destruction and renovate as a historical landmark. It's very stunning and beautiful.
That house is beautiful. It still looks as if it could still be livable.
Great job Noah 🎉❤
I enjoyed walking thru this amazing old home
BTW there was a sink in the first kitchen looking area with the wood island. It's hidden under the wood . Great house to play hide and seek in .also there's a wine caller way down in the basement that has a cool bottle of wine from 1867. There's also a hidden room just outside the pink room with the clouds. It's behind the paneling.
Start a petition for the city to buy it and fix it. It will take some doing but people would pay to take tours and hold events there.
That would be a damn shame to tear that place down. It would take some money but it could be restored. Beautiful home.
From Noah's accent, sounds like Canada...
That house has so much potential ❤️
This home is beautiful! Before they tear it down, its big enough to make 4 homes out of it!!
LOOKS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL CAKE WITH ELEGANT TRIMMED FROSTING.
Also those heavy duty hooks in the upper room were for musical instruments - guitars I believe. All that lovely hardwood flooring and the decorative corbels and gingerbread trim are all worth salvaging. I hope whomever takes the building down will do it in the proper and respectful manner the old 'lady' deserves
Personally I'd restore it as an event center with period accurate details.
I'd build gardens immediately around it, maybe even a koi pond & pavilions.
Then I'd build fancy condos, mini luxury homes etc.
Then charge for the use of the place. Plus get the tax breaks for restoring the place. It could be a really great area to live in. Not to mention worth a lot of money then too.
Or at least I wish somebody would do something like this to restore places like this.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You took me to a place of imagination and wonder. ❤ I love your ideas.
What an amazing home,, I’m lost for words, I bought a new home in 1997.. never was like this home,, hope someone watches this video , takes over it, my goodness she’s sooo bueatiful 🦋🙏🏼🌷❣️
You have made one of the best abandoned mansion videos ever. Thank you for the tour 👍
Love this house, i hope it is saved. Some lovely history went down there. Whoever originally built it had to have some $$ to spend with the medalians and all the beautiful wood.
Most 1700's period homes were built with the kitchen area first like a cabin, the entire family was all in one room. Then as materials became available rooms were added. My parent live in a 1807 victorian style house on 10 acres of hay. The kitchen is very large, with similar styles to this home. Even the upstairs bedrooms are odd shaped. With a large cellar spreading the entirety of the home. On the property even stands the original 20x20 cabin built when the owners came out west from New York. Do you remember exactly the amount of bedrooms? I lost count after 8 or 9, even watching your video several times. Thank you again.
That really should be saved as a heritage house! Amazing home. 😍
Someone save this place please 🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 this house doesn't deserve it's impending fate😥
It's such a shame. You can tell what was original because of the lasting craftsmanship! The additions are deteriorating much more faster that the original.
Such a beautiful home! Love the pocket doors!!❤
What an awesome home. Never seen anything like it. Would love to have lived there. Too bad it can't or won't be saved. What a sad loss.
On the various old house tours I've watched, I've seen people renovate structures that were in worse condition than this one. It is absolutely stunning although the "modern" fixtures would have to go. They should have kept with the farmhouse style. My big gripe about these tours is the person doing the tour knows absolutely nothing about the house. I'm sure in this case (since the city has been involved somewhat) that there are original achitechural plans, etc. that indicate what the various rooms were to be used as and show what was original vs. add on. It wouldn't take much time to look this stuff up before you do the voice over and it would add so much history & personalization to the tour rather than just guessing.
My family restored a 150.00 yr old farm house. The barn had pegs connecting the beams and frame work. The wood they used was cucumber wood, hard as iron. The house still had the old gas lighting plumbing. I never pulled off so much lath and horse hair plaster in my life. The worst was stripping off all eight layers of enameled paint, every color of the rainbow. Was very glad when we finished it.
Omg it kills me to see this home abandoned and sold.. omg its insainely beautiful!!!
Can you give us an update on the home as to wether it was.saved or demolished? I love your videos!!
I think the first room from the 2nd stairway where you said "massive coat hooks"...were guitar hooks so you can hang guitars on the wall. :) Awesome house!
The valances over the doors are amazing. In the time it was built its crazy to think that the woodwork would have been all hand carved. Love this home, such a shame to destroy it. I give anything to live in a home this grand
BEAUTIFUL HOME ONCE AND COULD BE AGAIN !!!!
This is the one thing I really hate about America that they tear old things down, as Europe keeps them and it’s almost impossible to tear anything down there.
I agree completely.
Absolutely disgusting to let this house be destroyed! Hopefully the Heritage will step up and save it.
You know there’s and archive of architectural floor plans from the 1800s….
I love studying the architecture and history of the home. I have time on my hands & a desire to save such a property. I have minimal financial resources, but sheer determination, some experience, and children who have a variety of experience from HVAC to cabinetry and flooring. When I win the lottery, I'd be happy to save this jewel!
I Really like this place! I can’t believe they’re going to tear it down!! Someone should at least come in and take what can be salvaged! Like the doors, the trim around the doors (I can’t think right now so I can’t come up the name of it! - so aggravating)!! I can’t believe some of the colors they painted some of those rooms! They started out with some awesome colors. But really I think they should Try to salvage the whole house if possible, if it’s not possible save as much as we can. We can throw together new houses all day long, but once we tear down an old building/home like this one, we’ve lost something we Can’t get back. Thank you for the video, Loved it!!
Love Your Appreciation of architectural and details in this old building. You seem to have building / construction knowledge too.
I'd love a property like this and am sick to see it go. Can't imagine the cost to repair - 2-300 k or more ? Really, so worth it, you can not duplicate the style.
"Vacant" can mean no one is currently living on the property not necessarily that the plan is to destroy the house. We bought a vacant house once in Casper Wyoming. It was fine. I hope my definition is correct ❤ it's just too beautiful ❤
Vacant land means no buildings. Probably condition of sale was to have no house on it.
I would like to know who built this.
Imagine coming inside as a child, shedding your snow boots off the back porch. Oh it is a work of art and seems like much thought and love.
Where is the kitchen compared to rooms? Living room, sitting room.
The upper drapery is called a valance.
Now with seeing the holes in the roof one can understand why the paint bubbled in that room below.
Stunning land surrounding this house.
Don’t you think the help stairs lead to the helps living areas? There use of all space is wonderful. That back most area seems like a separate home. Possibly set up for extended family.
Oh man that foundation is amazing!
I think you woke the spirits in the house when sliding that door.
It is such a same that ppl distroy so much history
The room that looks similar to a kitchen but has no sink or stove - that would have been the food prep prior to cooking and food service center inside the home. Back when this home was built, the kitchens were not attached to the house due to common kitchen fires. The homes were primarily built of wood at the time and often burned to the ground due to fire. There were no fire departments back then. It was people throwing buckets of water. Not very effective, especially with a grease or kitchen fire. Therefore, the cooking portion of the kitchen was a smaller separate building, usually several feet away from the kitchen door. Enough distance to protect the main house should a fire occur in the kitchen.
The top floor was always the servants rooms. The top floors were always the hardest to warm or cool (no insulation) and therefore not suitable for family or guests, but suitable for servants. The rooms were usually tiny and cramped. The more rooms they could accommodate, the more servants they could house.
This home is brick !
It would be a crime to destroy this magnificent architecture. Somebody, please do something?!
The area with all the quotes on the wall was definitely the angsty teen of the homes space. Such a strange and beautiful home. Thank you for sharing!