Abandoned Victorian Home from 1868 | Historic Abandoned House | Urban Exploring with Freaktography
This historic abandoned house was built in 1868 by a very wealthy and prominent member of the community. Originally built on 30 acres of land. The owner died in 1886 and in 1993 the city designated this house as a "property of historical, architectural, and contextual value and interest".
This means the home cannot ever be demolished and must be preserved with any future development of the land
I have passed this home on many occasions and wondered what its status was and noted a number of times that lack of any activity, tire tracks or any signs that the home is being used.
My suspicions were correct as I approached the home one day to find it empty inside and open, lots of original work inside such as an old fireplace, thick wood trimming around the windows and doors. It seems to have been used as a business at some point and the business owners sealed off doorways to create closed offices and a boardroom.
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what's going on everybody here we go
again herck Dave freaktography I didn't
shave today take a look the whiskers on
my face are pretty much the same size as
the whiskers on my head so sorry for my
appearance today guys but this is the
last minute decision to come out and do
some exploring there's a neighborhood
not far from where I live that's
probably got five six abandoned houses
that are all likely to be demolished
torn down and replaced by condo
developments this one here I kind of
hope they not going to tear it down
because as you're going to see it's a
beautiful old historic looking house
lots of nice original features here
definitely was somebody's house at one
point I think it might have been used as
a business eventually and now it's been
empty and vacant for quite some time so
let's check this place out first thing
we're going to do cue the music cue the
intro I'll see you guys on the other
side
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okay guys welcome inside welcome to
welcome back to my next adventure first
thing we're going to look at here is
this room with this super nice uh window
feature at the front of the house and as
I scroll up you'll see this fancy uh
decorative molding on the ceiling where
there was once a light fixer hanging but
you got some really nice features
here and this really nice
window and this is a great house from
the outside and today I don't really
give a I'm going to show you guys
the outside of this house later on when
I'm done so we're going to turn around
here and I'll show you the rest of the
room kind of reminds me of an old
doctor's office waiting room so here you
go I'll scroll down a little bit it's
got some chairs here and you got a a
strange mattress this is really weird
this here used to be a door opening into
this room which for some reason has been
blocked off really
weird here's somebody's uh dining room
table here which is missing a leg so
it's a little bit
wobbly and then there's your
fireplace looks like it was at one time
a very nice looking
fireplace and it's seen better days for
sure so here's your windows with all of
these windows and doors have wood trim
around
them and then here is another door to
get into the house and you got this Bell
here that you can ring from the
outside take a walk back
here this will be another quick one guys
I'm just knocking him off like crazy
today here you got a couple of
mattresses you've got a small mattress
here and what looks like a KingSize
mattress and you got a box
spring and we're going to move ahead
here this is probably a
bathroom Yep this is the bathroom and
what happens when we go to the bathroom
guys what's up
guys not too much going on in the
bathroom here got this piece of art here
though let's check this out look at that
he isn't that nice girl having a drink
all
alone all right another strange door
that's been blocked off from the other
side and they've uh put this um mattress
in front of the window here and then
they put a piece of wood in front of
this window so that people can't see
inside the problem is they forgot to
lock the doors guys they did all these
security measures so that people can't
look inside the
house but they didn't lock the doors so
that's their fault not mine here's
another room with a bunch of chairs
we've got uh some some business office
chairs and we've got a Christmas tree on
the floor here interesting
stuff like I said guys just a lot just a
lot of empty in these places these days
but I'm still into exploring everything
so now we're in the kitchen here we got
a nice big computer monitor just sitting
there in the kitchen TV TV or computer
monitor I think that's a computer
monitor what do I know
moving along there's a lamp you got a
stove there somebody's got their uh
their toolbox here which is great leave
your toolbox behind and then there's the
snow blower what the hell's the
snowblower doing inside the kitchen
that's not where it
goes got a poppy here Poppy and some
Nails some nice leg coming in here
through these windows lighting up this
room really good in here
okay guys we're going to go to the main
foyer as you walk in the house which is
to me the nicest part of the house and
uh take you here here's the front door
and you got a stain glass mirror or I
should say St glass window at the top of
the door and then I'll turn around here
and we'll scroll down and there's the
beginning of your staircase and your
railing and your newal post and go up
and up and around and it's a super nice
looking staircase
would hate to see this get demolished
guys i' love to see them maybe save this
and do something with this place if
they're going to incorporate this into a
new subdivision it would be nice to not
tear this house
down that's just my opinion was nobody
cares about my
opinion upstairs is interesting we got
some interesting paint uh choices here
and then there's a hutch left over
here just sitting there
pardon my sniffing guys it's cold it's
still
winter all right we're going to move
into this room which obviously at one
point it was a bedroom and now it's uh
it's got purple
walls some nice fancy decorative
trimming around the window
here I wonder if there's
power let's see what happens when I hit
this light switch if there's
power nothing happened when I hit the
switch what about when I pull this here
no no power
guys power this is interesting because
this is
round there's a rounded wall there but
from in
here it's been squared
off weird right oh look it's the closet
that's round that's
weird I would have liked the room to be
round all right let's go into this green
room here mint green
ceiling's nice the other room the other
ceil the other room ceilings had a had a
drop ceiling but this is obviously
original would have been nice if they
didn't paint over
it there's your high intensity High
sucking vacuum cleaner with somebody's
coat on
it another big empty room
and then you got another kitchen on the
second floor
here take a look
here stove
sink cabinet
space got your May tag uh fridge
here
and this which is nothing
got your hind 57 sauce
There looks pretty old it's great on
steak and then there's a servant
staircase right here guys goes
downstairs there you
go and another bathroom this a big
bathroom guys whoa look at this little
toilet you got a little bathtub and
shower there
and uh there you go so this was a
laundry room at some point and I'm so
sorry guys but there's no
window or there's no sorry guys there's
no mirror for me to say what is Up Guys
in in this
bathroom got toilet paper
though look at that you got a hole you
got a roll there and then you got a home
roll waiting for you it's
good and then guys well there's an attic
but you can't get in cuz it's locked the
attic is locked you can't get in in so
too bad about
that okay so we came up the main
staircase so let's go down the servant
stairs
here you guys like these old houses
better than the newer
houses my guess is that you guys
probably prefer the houses that have
stuff in them as I
do those are obviously much nicer houses
cuz there's more to look at but I think
this is an interesting house and I'm
curious to know what you guys think
here's where we started so why don't I
just shut up for a while we'll take a
walk around and we'll play some music
and we'll just do a quick walk through
this house without me talking and see if
you guys like it all right so I'm going
to shut up let's find us some nice music
and here we go hey guys what's going on
URC Dave here also known as
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so there you have it guys there it is
right there this has been a big creepy
looking abandoned house totally empty on
the inside but just looks awes Awesome
from the outside let's take another look
here just an awesome old house guys do
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um what do you guys think of this house
you like these kinds of houses these big
old historic Victorian looking houses
anyways guys that's it I got to move on
there's more places to explore there's
more bandal to hit thanks for watching
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