Exploring an Abandoned Mansion and Equestrian Estate

In last Sunday's video, we explored a large abandoned property that formerly served as an equestrian training center and that also has three homes on the property. Today, we head to the larger home on the property where the owners of the training center resided up until they were forced to move to a new location. All right, guys. Here we go. So, here we have two houses. We have the main house right here, and then we have a little uh guest house right there we're going to check out. And then back there is a whole barns and farm property and stuff like that and horse training. So, here we're going to check out the house, guys. The main house on the property. All right, let's go. All right, here we go, guys. We're in. And as I said, uh I don't know if I said this, but these this house and this property were very very very recently vacated, uh because the person who owned this land decided to sell it. Now, the man owned the whole property and he leased it to a company who used it as a horse training farm, as far as I understand. and the guy decided he wanted to sell, so the horse farm had to had to shut down. This property was long known as Hender Veil Farm, a recognizable name in Ontario's competitive equestrian scene. By the late 2000s, the land became associated with the Iron Horse Equestrian Complex, operating across more than 100 acres of rural Burlington. At its height, the property included large indoor riding arenas, extensive stabling, and competition level outdoor rings. The main residence is a large two-story home publicly described as over 5,000 square ft, built decades ago to overlook the working farm. This house was not hidden from the operation. It was positioned to watch over it. From the windows and terraces, much of the property would have been visible during its busiest years. Abandoned places are easy to enjoy until they connect to personal memory. When a forgotten property sits in someone's orbit, documentation can feel confrontational. This site carries more than history. It carries opinions. Today, this address appears in provincial planning records connected to proposed land use changes. Public documents show applications that would move the property away from equestrian use entirely. On paper, the future of this land is still being decided. Decay does not remove significance. It reveals it. The silence here is newer than the walls. It's quite likely that this is going to definitely be demolished along with the house next door which is like a farmhouse along with the guest house and everything else that we see when I show you guys the drone footage of the property. Everything will be demolished and this entire property will be redeveloped into some kind of a um residential neighborhood. Looks like we got a garage here. Is it open? Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Oh, look at this guys. Herbex fitness right here. Hit the bench press right in the middle of the garage right here. Hey guys, Herbex chest workout. Got to get those chests pumped up. All right, what's here? What do we got going on here, guys? Oh, that's just the sink. You had a sink in the closet, guys. It's a weird thing to do. All right, so here is your garage. Here you have some some Ford stuff on the wall here. All right, enough about that. What's in here, though? Does this go to downstairs or something? Or is this going to be a bathroom? Oh, that goes downstairs. All right, maybe we'll go downstairs in a little while. Okay, nice place. Sky skylights here. Hey, very nice. All right, on into the kitchen. Now, I did tell you guys, I believe I told you that there is power, so we can turn everything on if we want for fun. See, all the lights are on. Now, this is a nice island. Hey, nice place to come get up in the morning, lean up against the island here, and drink your cup of coffee. It's nice. It's a little uh kidney bean shaped swimming pool right there. Okay, so let's get a look here at the kitchen. Big kitchen. Very nice. Lots of storage. Lots of places to put pots and pans and cups and saucers and teacups and coffee cups and all that. And then here you've got some kind of a probably a dining room. I'm going to guess. Pretty good at guessing that. Okay. All right. Let's go into the bright room. Holy cow. This is a lot to take in. This is quite the room, guys. Wow. I guess they didn't want to take their air hockey table. Maybe it's a pain in the butt to take apart. So, they're like, "Screw that. I'm just leaving it." But what's awesome though is that the house has power. Oh man, if I was here with someone like Rhythm Rider or UBC, we could have played air hockey. Oh man, I could play by myself. if there's any pucks. I don't even know if there's any pucks. Okay, I got I got to investigate gate this guys. Be right back. Okay guys, the moment of truth here. I've plugged it in and I found the on and off switch. It's on, guys. It's on. Okay, so we have air. We have air hockey table. We have one air hockey puck, but we don't have the paddles. Yes. Okay, let's do this again. Ready? Yes. One more time. Here we go, guys. GET READY. YES. Oh man. Air hockey champion, guys. Okay, let's keep going here. Going to unplug this. Got to be safe. Okay, we got to be safety, guys. [sighs] We got Guitar Hero. Oh man, I wonder I guess you probably need speakers to play this. I could plug it in, but there's no speakers to plug it into. Guys, we can have so much fun in this house. Okay, anyways, there's your fireplace. Nice big bright windows, china cabinet. [snorts] Um, we'll go upstairs in a minute. Okay, we've been down here. Yeah. Okay, so let's go upstairs now. Just take a look at the foyer. Here's the foyer again. Why did they leave this here? That's a nice piece of furniture, man. People wasteful. Turn some lights on. This is a nice house. Did I say that? that a few times already. Here's your library. You can look out the window, watch all the horses training. Hey, clapping around with their hoofs. There's the pool. Okay. Library. Um, bedroom. Green carpet. Who vacuums before they leave a house that's about to be demolished and abandoned and demolished? I don't really understand. They must be very thoughtful people. We got an air conditioning unit in there. Nothing in there, guys. Another bedroom here. Lots of bedrooms. Guess I didn't want that bed either. They took the mattress but not the bed. Over here we got some LED lights. Ooh. Oh, but I think you need a remote control for this. Let's see. Oh, there we go. Got it. Okay. Turned it on. But you can't see anything. But there you go. You can see. I think you can see. Let me turn these lights off. There you go. We have red lights, guys. We have red LED. Now, if I could find the remote control, you can change the color, but that's probably not a remote control. But, you know, if I find it, I'm going to play with it. Hey, look. We got some change here. Is that enough for a coffee? Nope. Not quite. $1.15. [snorts] Okay. What's in here? Closet. Another closet. Any remote controls in here? Doesn't look like it. This would be pretty cool if it was dark, but we're not going to be here that long, I don't think. Bathroom. What's up, guys? Let's hit the lights here. Bathroom. You got the fan. You got a hot tub. Jacuzzi tub. Pretty nasty shower. What's up, guys? All right, this is going to be a closet. Yep. Then we have this room. Let's turn the lights on. The carpet choice, guys. It's a good house, though. I like it. Anything in the closet? Somebody hiding in the closet? Nope. Nope. Okay, that's always good. That's always good that there's not somebody hiding in the closet. Here we have a um a closet for hanging your fur coats and stuff. Fancy coats. All right, we're almost done. Then we're going to do the basement. Oh, this goes far. Holy cow, this is a long house. Wow. Probably the master bedroom, eh? You got a fancy chair. I mean, love seat. All right. A lot of these houses, I notice, have alarms in the master bedroom. Here we have a walk-in closet. I'm not going up there. Oh, look in here, though. Everything's gone. Okay. Bathroom. Big bathroom. Whoa. Little tiny nook for a toilet. And then this is all tub right here. That's a lot of tub. What's up, guys? Water work. Look at that water work. Little toilet flush. Yep. Okay. If I was homeless, I'd be up in here like in in a minute for sure. Again, there's a look at the out outside in the yard where the horses do their running around. I think I already did this. Already showed you guys this. I think I used the word clapping. Okay, so now we've done the main floor. We finished upstairs. So, now we'll take a break for a second and we'll go to the basement. Be right back. So, uh, there was probably another way to the basement, but I'm already going this way. So, let's go this way. Got lights. Yep, we got lights, guys. What's it going to be like down here? Is it going to be like the exact same length as the upstairs? Look at this big old tree. Christmas decorations. Table. There's the legs for the table and the chairs. Okay. So, this looks like this was the children's playroom. Yeah. Now, so sincere told me that down here it was all set up like a baseball diamond. Oh, it's over here. Here it is. Apparently, the child here was a big fan of baseball. Yeah, but it's been ripped up, unfortunately. Or so. Is it baseball or soccer? I see a soccer ball. Anyways, so they definitely would have had some pretty fun times playing down here as little kiddies playing soccer in indoors. Another storage room here. We got suitcases. We got bins. So much stuff in here. Wow. Okay, let's see what kind of stuff we have here. We have a makeup kit right here. And we have some paint stuff, some jewelry, like play jewelry. Have a vacuum cleaner. And here we have a baseball bat and a hockey stick. And I'm going to go this way because I just saw a whole bunch of cobwebs that way. And then here. Okay. So, we got some keyboards, some pianos, keyboards, souvenir of my baptism, baseball glove, globe. What's in here? Cables. Okay. Oh, a toboggan. I could probably bring this upstairs and plug it in and play you guys. Uh, Wizard of Not Wizard of Oz, Inaaga Devita and Phantom of the Opera. Oh, here's the speakers. I could bring these upstairs and I can play Guitar Hero. I'm not going to though. Too much work. Is this a record player? Oh, there's records in there. Wow. Okay, cool. Okay, pretty interesting stuff, guys. Lots in the basement. Lots more than I expected down here. This room is pretty awesome. I wish I could have seen this when it was all set up for the kid.