Abandoned gambrel-style farmhouse full of junk
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- čas přidán 30. 08. 2018
- It's a miracle! I was finally able to find this house on google maps! Glad to be able to get inside. Thanks for watching!
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Beautiful old farmhouse! I am afraid no one remembers back to when this is grandma and grandpas home and the picnics and holidays held there ! That’s what always saddens me about these homes
Some middle aged guy's heart will be broken once he returns someday to see what happened to grandma's house.
Guys dont let your memories washed away, just give it to someone to live for free instead fo this. At least he ll take care of the property and the house.
This house has been a family home since the early 1900s. It apparently is still owned by the last remaining family members who live in a near by town. When it was built, it was most likely a Sears home, purchased through a Sears catalog , popular and convenient to buy and build back then.
There were 2 parents and 4 children in this family. 3 boys and 1 girl. The girl was the baby of the family. I think only 1 of the boys married and had 1 daughter. One of the last brothers lived in the house until he died in 1990. After his death, the house was vacant for about 10 years, until the sister moved back to the family home in 2000 to retire. The sister died in Jan of 2018 in a near by care home, she was 102. All of the family are buried in 3 of the county cemeteries. The sister that died this year, went to State College, then moved to NY. She lives in NY all of these years until she decided to retire at the family home. It is said that she was an avid reader and a very generous, caring, and friendly person. She was also known for having amazing pie crusts. The remaining family members are; one niece in her 60s, the nieces husband, and their 3 sons, (probably in their 30s or 40s), and a recent great grand niece).
Most of the mess in the house looks like its from animals ransacking it or from the roof collapsing.
All of the info above, I got is from research. I don't know this family personally. That is why I didnt mention names, and birth dates, etc.
Good job. I wish I was that good at research.
Good work.. I wouldn't have thought of Craftsman home, but the glass and mortise details fit perfectly. My late grandmama lived in a sears home as well.
@@stevejohnson1321 Thanks Steve. It wasn't too hard to research this family because they all pretty much stayed in the same county or state all of their lives. Except for the sister, that took of to NY after college.
Belle B
That’s awesome!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for researching this! Watching so many
“ Urban Explorers,” I always want some kind of background on the location, but very few actually take the time to do the research. Plus, I also understand that to give “too much” info would possibly put the location “on the map” so to speak for thieves &/or looters. So this was wonderful to actually get a bit of history & know that this was once a happy & thriving home!
Where did you get enough information to go on to even begin looking into it?
Although this house has seemed to come
To a sad ending, I can’t help but love the old details such as the woodwork and the piping through the windows..I would have loved to seen it in all its glory. Even better to see it restored..the money it would probably take is unthinkable. Good work man, keep hunting
There are Web sites that detail the Craftsman homes -- you might find this model listed.
My house was built in 1900 and my two front picture windows have that same exact design over the tops. That was what first drew me to the house. I love them.
No matter what abandon property I see I always see salvageable stuff. It's really a shame to see it go to waste. Back in the day i bet it was great coming home to this beautiful structure.
Personally, I think that farm could be bought and revived. My family helped some friends of ours from church gut an old abandoned farmhouse they purchased from another church family. Hippies had been living in it with their goats in the kitchen, after the barn had collapsed. What a mess! There was two feet of bat guano in the attic between the rafters! There were whole newspapers and old clothes stuffed between the wall studs as insulation. There was a small dirt-walled root cellar underneath the kitchen. The barn was connected to the house by a breezeway. And there was rusty horse- drawn farm equipment abandoned and overgrown in the meadow. We gutted the house from rafters, to studs to floor joists. My little brother stepped on a pile of debris, and he fell halfway through a passive heating vent left open in the floor. He stopped at his armpits! Damn! Before the days of instagram and camera phones! It turns out that the house was originally a log home, that was added on to in good years. A Goodyear home. It was in the same condition as that gambrel-roofed house when we first walked in. Now the house is beautiful. A good foundation, a good well, good bones to the house. That's a rebuildable location.
Lily enjoyed herself, brilliant video, loved it...Thank you Farm Hunter.
Absolutely adore Lily! She is a good and faithful guard dog for you too; although most likely sweet and submissive, I would bet that she wouldn’t hesitate to disassemble a anything or anyone that tried to hurt you. Thank you for the video. These old farm houses fascinate me! ❤️
I loved Lilly too she reminds me of my girl Rotty Cocoa who passed away 1 1/2 years ago Rottweilers are the best dogs ever. Anna In Ohio.
I have one. He is recuperating right now after fighting a black bear in my yard at 1:30 in the am. My Teddy Bear. He is a good boy, I didnt realize just how devoted to the family and children he is, even after being injured he would not come in the house from the porch. He was on full alert and nothing was coming near his home with his sleeping kids. I cant ever repay such loyalty, if only people were that devoted to each other. Now he has a big inflatable ring around his neck, and this is a challenge to no end! Lol. Hero's.
I’m 54 and have scars on my knees from my uncles home that had one of those floor furnaces always tripped and landed knee first on the grate! All us first cousins have the same scared up knees lol !
i am 52 not much younger then you i felt the same thing to along with the scars to prove it HURT LIKE HELL !!!
YES THEM GREAT OLD DAYS ! ? STILL FEELS AT TIMES LIKE IT ONLY HAPPENED LAST WEEK!!!!!LOL!!!!
I don't know why, but I see a place like that, and I have a compulsion to clean it up!
Same. Anna In Ohio.
That driveway is gorgeous. Imagine the lives that were lived there.
Well done...I sure hope you rewarded Lilly with a big bowl of cool water!
It’s really interesting to me to think that at some point this house was brand new… That a whole bunch of people at some point came together with materials and tools and plans and all of that and built the house… And they probably had a whole bottle of good expectation of a happy life They love their new house and went out and got furnishings or they had furnishings already from someplace else at any rate it took care to bring things didn’t set them up just so… And for a while it was a happy alive home… But then something happens maybe the people that old and had to live someplace else and I had to leave out and I thought they were doing goodbye putting chicken wire up animals out and probably had intentions of coming back but something must’ve happened to prevent that and now we got a tumble down disaster.
Sometimes I look at my apartment and I look at all the stuff that my family has accumulated… And I think wow where were all of this stuff be in Some large number of years? And then it kind of makes you step back and think is it really necessary to go out and spend money and acquire all of this cheap stuff? I don’t know I guess I’m feeling melancholy today. I just wonder what will urban exploration with like 50 or 60 or 80 years from now? Probably quite a lot like scrolling through your local garbage dumpvv
I appreciate the comment and I think the exact same things. At some point, these homes were hustling and bustling with life. Kids, a family, pets. Read the description on my channel. That pretty much describes it. Sad.
I try to picture how my house will look in 100 years. It will probably be abandoned or demolished.
It's like a glimpse into the void. A snapshot of life after life and it's often ugly and dirty but strangely poetic and beautiful. Seeing pictures sag on walls, and the earth reclaiming itself pulling the building into it. I always stop in awe at the entropy of life and how powerful and amazing it really is.
I think these same things too...so much stuff...makes a person really think about want versus need.
My house won’t stand the test of time.
COW!!! Hey Lilly your beautiful be safe! looks like Lilly needs a camera too!! Good explore! Montgomery Ward vibrating belt OMG that is soooooo old!!!
That would be awesome. Put the Go-pro on Lily!
Just because a magazine has a date on it doesn't mean someone was living there at that time. Family may have brought boxes of stuff to store in the old family home.
Oh Lilly scared me! Haha. Watched half of this last night, then the other half tonight. Forgot you had her with you, then she shows up! Wow. That old Montgomery Ward piece of exercise equipment was something to see! Too bad these houses fall to ruins.
Lilly is adorable! You can always say she took off and you ran after her.
Whoever lived there probably got sick or died and there was no one to take over.
Also, always make sure to always wear a mask, you never know when you come in contact with mold spores and asbestos. I saw alot of pilesof grey residue that can easily contain asbestos.
I also imagine that you have your dog with you, it may be a nice idea on case of protection, but, imagine he is sniffing all that nasty dust that you dont even know if it contains asbestos or other toxic things
Mary Madrigal my first thought was “is that safe for a dog???” 😣
Good point
Excellent video as always. Loved seeing Lily, she’s adorable! Nothing wrong with letting her explore at her own comfort level 🙂
That old massage belt was funny. My grandmother had one. She called it a belly shaker. Was supposed to make you lose weight. A 60's idea. Hope Lilly didn't cut her paws in that place. I worried about that. Liked the way the house looked on the outside and the driveway was a dream. Thanks for sharing. Lilly was cute🐱
How sad! I bet it was a beauty at one point
Lobed your special guest.Lilly! Looked like she had fun roaming around in places you couldn't get to! And yes I agree with the others could you please start wearing a mask wh you go in places like these
Love watching your trips to abandoned places and love seeing your four legged friend with you 🐶😊
Thank you for being so very thorough. I appreciate close ups of old wall paper and labels of the items left in cabinets. I don't see anything wrong with taking Lilly in, either, because animals are smart about their surroundings, and anyhow, they can step in glass or on a nail or get bitten by a wasp anywhere outside. They don't require constant supervision like human toddlers!
It seems that the old woman died, and so very sad that no one who knew her cared enough at least to empty her refrigerator and pack up her stuff--everything was left as is. The world can be a cold, lonely place for someone who outlives their friends and close relatives.
Nice to see you brought your supervisor along on this one! I have a big baby that looks just like her lol
I love that your dog goes where dad goes
it look's like an old Sears house by looking at the structure of the exterior, people order homes and build them back in the day around 1880's by 1940's by department store catalogs. I start watching your videos today and just subscribed you, keep them up and love your cute doggy! ;)
The house I live in now used to have one of those furnaces. They get so warm. My room was always FREEZING so I would go and sit in the living room wrapped in a blanket right next to the furnace lol
My favorite farm tour so far! Love the thought that went into the design of the house. It has a lovely roof design! Very functional storage throughout, the style in the stairwell, the (leaded?) glass window designs, the pass-through, built-in China cabinet....all of it points to a home designed to function efficiently. Small space design! I sympathize with the massive amount of books. I'm a lifelong bookaholic, but have been thinning out my books! Upstairs--maybe the lady of the house had a sewing/craft space? Thanks for a great tour, and Lily is just beautiful!
Thats what I saw there was a sewing machine up there, kept looking for a mannequin. I imagine that long table up there was for quilting. Sadly as you get older stairs are not so easy to go up and down. Books I love to read but have always been "Read them and pass them on" not a person who rereads books.. my sister on the other hand, Oh my! She has storage tubs full of books she's already read, all the way to the ceiling in their basement. Same with DVD's I watch them and pass them on buy all my books and DVD's used to begin with. I have a lot of stuff too old photo albums that belonged to husbands parents we haven't looked at them in 10 plus years husband said burn them when I'm gone which I will do sort out ones I want to keep but so many of people neither of us even know. Anna In Ohio.
This place gives me a whole new respect for hoarders. How in hades did they get that heavy crap up the stairs? And in a rural area?
Wonderful old house. Too bad it's beyond repair. Great video!
Lily is beautiful. That house must have been stunning once. Tyvm for posting
The boots hanging there,my grandpa had a pair just like those when I was a kid on their farm. This place reminded me of my childhood. Cool video 👍
Be careful of your fur baby when going into places like that, one explorer lost his dog because it drank antifreeze, he was to far from a vet to get it help. Awesome video!
Lol, you know it's bad when your dog is afraid to go inside!😂
You can almost imagine the sound of horse's hooves and carriage wheels or a model T going down roads such as that. Adore your choice in music! I would love to have lived back then in such a peaceful place. Must have been nice when it was a dairy farm. =)
Enjoyed meeting Lily. She's a good dog. I was glad that you had her with you. Dogs seem to know how to be careful. That furnace on the basement ceiling? Maybe it was a floor furnace. Very popular in pre-1950's home. In our area in Arkansas used natural gas. If it was a floor furnace it was probably covered by all the stuff on the floors.
Good work FH! Looking forward to your next one!
Noticed a name on something and just from googling around the husband died in 1980.. can’t seem to find the wife’s information. Great find! Too bad people have destroyed it! Could have been a great time capsule. Thanks for posting!
Thank you for the info and for watching :)
If only I had researched the names the first time I visited...I would have been interested in visiting her and giving you guys more information on this property! Darn!!
Great find!!! I love Lilly! ❤️
When you first get a glimpse of the house you think oh wow..but the inside is such a mess..you definitely are dedicated to climb all around in there...Love your little partner Lily..She's doing a great job...I definitely want to see more of your adventures...how long have you been doing this. I enjoyed this so thanks farm hunter..stay safe
I wonder what it was like the day the person left. Or the circumstances behind they're leaving. Did they know they were never coming back? They'd never see their home or belongings again. Looks like it was a quaint little home when it was new.
Thank you Farm Hunter!
ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO!
You betcha!! 😀
Lily is the star of the show❤
What an amazing house!!! Would love to have seen it in it’s prime. The China hutch is so cool! The ornate glass in the windows and the hutch doors should be “leaded glass” which was popular back then!
It would be so cool to see what a place like this would have looked like when it was brand new. My house was built in 1963 and in 100 years I wonder what it will look like.
Lily is lovely!! I have a Lily. She's a black cat ;)
what a cool find. I wish I could find houses like this in florida
Once again u did it yeah! Good fine. My thoughts maybe at one time there was a man of the house he probably died n she was alone to tend for herself years go by possibly she died n maybe in ther house who knows. Sad part family or friends just let everything to fall apart. Just guessing here.
It was great meeting Lily she’s a beauty. Oh by the way the glass u saw in the Windows is called lead glass. I have an old library book case n the doors to it is all lead glass. It’s pretty cool. U got my vote
Lilly is just beautiful.
It has that ceiling because during its last use it was prone to water damage; that type of ceiling is cheap and easy to replace in the event of roof leaks. Eventually of course you would start rotting structure and floors and it would have to be abandoned. 9:13
I love old country music, that’s all I listen to ❤️. Lilly is adorable ❤️. I’m guessing a hoarding situation. I hope you checked Lilly’s paws for broken glass! A clock built into the wall is something I’ve never seen. Different for sure. Thumbs up 👍
Great video thanks for sharing, if it were me I would bring my dog to, it's not safe to go alone,
I would love to have those windows I hope someone saves them. I would be so afraid to have Lily walking in there with all the broken glass and other nasty thinks to cut her feet. but it is a good find.
Wow , what a cool spot , shame the house is so wrecked , great explore enjoyed it,
I love the special guest!
When I see places like this I worry about bees & whasps that love to move in.
Love your partner, Lilly, another good explore.
Because they don't make 18 inch to two foot wide, 2 inch thick, 18 foot long boards at lumber mills anymore. Trees are seldom that big anymore.
Looks like grandma and grandpa died and none of the family had time, money or desire to put the effort into cleaning it all up and getting rid of the property. This happens often, as we see.
I know many abandoned homes on farms in Wisconsin. Mostly they are old farmers homes but the farmstead has passed on to the next and then the next generation who already has there own home near by or on another part of the property and they just farm the the tillable acreage and let the rest be. My brother in law and his wife just bought back his grandparents farm that has been out of the family a number of years. They will tear down the old home and build a new one. That was they deal he made with her. It is livable but a new family wants a new home. All the old buildings are there and they will keep and use most of them.
Just finished restoring a gambrel style house i love it five years of part time work now got to convinve wife to move there with me
Found it!!! Thanks.
Hi Lily!
I don't believe that the occupants we're hoarders. If the last person who lived in the home was infact an elderly woman than more than likely the reason everything is disheveled is due to her old age. It just became to difficult to keep up on the daily cleaning. Also who would she be cleaning it up for? If the husband was deceased and the kids have moved out then why bother. (Not trying to be mean or rude just saying it how it is. Also if the person was a hoarder the stuff would be stacked all the way up to the ceiling). Anyways cool old house.
What once was and will never be again, a moment in time waiting for the langoliers to come erase it from existence, this looks much like our last abandoned explore, liked vid
You do a great job, but I wish I could talk to you AS you are walking around so I could say, "Hey! Whats that? GO back and look at that!" I know you are breezing through, but I think an old fart like me would want to see more labels, dates, products. The stuff you call trash is an old farts treasure. HA! Thanks for the upload.
Ron G.L. A live video would be great and we could ask questions
I think you should go live with these so if you fall through at least someone knows where you are! Be safe my man! Lily should have booties on.
Aw yr doggie is so c u t e! Thanks so interesting to watch!!!
Hi Farm Hunter, Love your videos. Do you ever try and find out the history of the properties that you visit? For those of who salvage, this house is candy. Have you ever been approached by the land owners.
Sup from Kentucky😊
You and the beautiful Lily were brave to go in that thing. That wallpaper was really old.
We had one of those floor mounted heaters in Crocker MO when I was a child in the 70s.
Weird, calendar's from 1997, but the Kelogg's expired in 1991. Who would keep 6 year old cereal?? A good estimate would be the dates on the items inside the fridge. Love this house, am so curious about its information. Do you research all the houses at all? u can probably find records of it.
Love the lead glass windows, should be saved..Lilly is a sweetie..
Lilly is a good dog. I don’t know if I’d let my Lilly roam around. She’s too sneaky. Lol she’d definitely find the raccoons though. She’s good at that.
What a mess. Good job trying to get through everything. Lily is a cutie. Glad to see you wear boots, so many urbex people wear tennis shoes. I live in an area with rattle snakes so that worries me when I see someone in soft soled shoes or even flip flops.
I always see explorers with inadequate footwear. I dont get it...gotta go prepared!
Nice video, interesting old house (l like your other videos too). But I'm wondering, how many old house explorers have contracted hantavirus from being exposed to rodent feces dust in those old buildings? I know it's very prevalent out west, and no one would dare go into an old building like that without a respirator. One of my parents friends who was an electrician (in Colorado), was hired to re-wire an old house, and he inhaled some of the dust in there, and was dead in three days from hantavirus. Just wondering if that is a concern for you in your part of the country?
Also, I noticed rock wool insulation in that house. It was used a lot back in the '70's as a cheap, blown-in insulation. It's nasty stuff if you inhale the dust, or even get it on your skin. It's basically just loosely crumbled fiberglass and it's no good in your lungs, the micro fibers stick in, and do not come out.
He's in MN. Hantavirus isn't a concern in that area although there is a similar, less deadly disease from another type of rodent in the upper midwest.
There is also a sickness that you can get from raccoon feces. Terrible stuff. But that insulation could have been of the pulverized newspaper variety. My parents had that blown into their bathroom rafters in our second floor dormer. When they pulled down the ceiling during the remodel, they were buried up to their knees in newspaper insulation.
In Canada we called that style of roof americana with hip roof on all four sides.greT video deo
Amazing !
Very messy house your dog Lilly is adorable
L❤️ VE LILLY! Thank you for sharing. This is GrEaT !!! 💜
Don’t break a leg -at least you have company!!
intersting find. Especially the old medicine bottles and the clock on the wall. Lily is just adoreable 🐶💖
wow very nice location :) like !
Hi Lily! Perhaps you can persuade your dade to buy you a pair of doggy boots so when you go into these old homes your beautiful paws will be protected....just a thought.
Crisco, it's digestible! Lol
I read that the same time you did haha
Your camera is actually quite good ! Nice place to grow up.
Beautiful❤
it's really neat o capture history in time like this as some previous videos I've watched I've read that not long after seeing it and watching it the places were destroyed by fire vandalism or storms
I would love to see you have a second channel called "investment in farm houses." Which means, buy the mortgage and own it for less!
Everyone complaining about the dog going inside the house: Dogs can cut their paws literally everywhere they go. There are sharp objects and pieces of glass outside in fields and parks and streets. So if you're such a dog lover better wrap your pooch up in bubblewrap before they go anywhere. Better even, never let them go outside except on your fluffy living room carpet. Stop trying to tell everyone how to take care of their animals. Bunch of snot-nosed crybabies.
They're also more likely to hurt their paws while running. They usually don't get hurt just walking around.
The tunnel-like driveway with trees on both sides is very picturesque, but it must have been a pain to plow snow in the winter with the trees so close. BTW - "Barn" shaped roofs are called gambrel roofs.
Thank you for the information. I changed the titles accordingly 😀
The architectural style of houses with gambrel roof is Dutch Colonial. No need to change the title though. I only point it out because I watch several urbex channels and the explorers generally are interested in knowing the style and age of the places they visit. The patterns in the glass date this place to the "Victorian" era, roughly 1870 to 1900. The correct name for the architectural style of what we think of as "Victorian" houses is called Queen Anne. If you're interested in the age of the building, look for any exposed nails. Square nails are forged and date a place to pre 1900 when wire nails came into use.
I always remember what the Dutch colonial homes look like, because the view that you always see of the Amityville Horror house shows that it was one of these.
So both terms in regard to this location are correct.
Lol- you and Pam have the same emphasis on the word "Junk". I am subscribing now
Junque then. Classier.
Love Lily...she's the boss!
please tell me what state and town this is in, i would like too save this house. jarrod..
good video
Hello Lily!!! You are so sweet looking! You look like you are ready to catch a rodent or two, LOL!!!
In the old house I rent there's a built in clock like the one at 16:09, It used to house miners back when this area had iron mines.
I don't know that you'll see this, but, first, thanks for the great explores, and second, please, please be careful!!! Gloves, mask, and tell people where you are. It's always a good idea to take the dog with, just in case you might run into someone.... SDK
I like your dog Lily she seems very sweet
I don’t blame her for initially not wanting to go into this house… I would be afraid that some terrible hornets or wasps or angry bees or spiders or a whole bunch of snakes or something awful would come rolling out to greet me