The plaques found in the house pay homage to previous owners. Here is some information I was able to find doing a quick armchair genealogical search this afternoon. Note that I could not verify that these individuals actually lived in this particular house - the closest I could find was an occasional reference to "Main Street" (there were no house numbers even as late as the 1940's census). - Dr. William Buell and his wife Abigal ("Nabby") were married in 1796. Both were living in Sheffield at the time. It appears they lived there until 1815, at which time they moved to Litchfield, CT, where Dr. Buell was born. This would jive with his plaque (1800-1815) as they may have lived elsewhere before the home was built. - The plaque for Dr. Nathaniel Preston indicates he lived there from 1815-1835. He married Jane Ashley in 1816. Dr. Preston died in 1825. There were no records found for the death of Jane Ashley, so I can't cooroborate the 1835 date on the plaque. - I didn't see any wall plaques in the video that accounted for the time period between 1835-1900. If anyone saw one, please let me know. - Dr. Byron Tompkins' plaque indicates he lived there from 1900-1926. The 1900 census shows him living in Manhattan with his first wife, but by 1910 he was in Sheffield with his second wife. He died in May of 1926. - Edwin B Dutcher's plaque listed him in the home from 1926-1963. He was not a physician. There is no reference to Mr. Dutcher living in Sheffield until the 1940's census where he is listed as a manager of a lumber supply company. Interestingly enough, his father was born in Sheffield in 1835, so perhaps that is a missing link!
The names on the doors are the room names in honor of the Doctors who previously occupied the house when it was the Berkshire Manor “ About Berkshire Manor • We offer our patrons five distinctive rooms, each named for a previous occupant of the inn: Dr. Buell Room, Dr. Preston Room, Orin Bills Room, Dr. Tompkins Room and the Traveller Single Room.”
I love this home. The room with the humungous fireplace was the original kitchen. The two rooms off of the main entry were the original dining room and the living room. I Would remove that present modern kitchen addition and the rooms with the sliding doors and have a breezeway/patio/deck between the home and the 3 car garage. Upstairs, of course fix the stairs. There are 5 bedrooms up there. I would take the bedroom closest to the master and turn it into a master closet/dressing room and enlarge the bathroom next to it.
Yes, it was Dr. Steve Brule's house. He has a show on you tube called 'Check it Out.' And this monstrosity on a main road with zero insulation is what you call a tear down. You'd be upside down financially before the plumber pulled into the driveway.
I wonder if this place was being used as a hotel or something. All those bathrooms have showers or tubs, which wouldn't be necessary for an office. Maybe the nameplates on the doors were meant historically as a theme. The weird landing upstairs was perhaps the result of chopping up rooms and needing to accomodate more doorways. Originally the layout probably made more sense.
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Nice tour, good thing he was a doctor, he probably fell down the stairs every other day. Structurally it's tore up from the floor up.
I was hoping you would show the Laundry sink downstairs......Was it Painted Cement ? And I think you missed showing us a Pantry too......full of charm in it's own way. I love the old Fireplace you could make stew and bread in there.
My old house was built in 1918 and it had the logs as well. It also had wonky floors. Not as bad as this house though. I dearly loved it anyway. For as big as this house is the bedrooms are small.
I was interested by the faucet & drain pipe in the front hall, 6’ above the floor, on the way up the main stairs. Cool house with a massive resto needed.
The floors are an indication of structurally issues, ie. the foundations have started to collapse and/ or joists have been messed with badly. Who ever buys this should pull everything out, saving what can be salvaged, gut and rebuild. IF this house can be saved it will take someone with a lot of money and time cause I see it as a 3-5 year project.
I help restore houses like this. I didn't see any hacks in the basement. Probably needs to be supported and the non-original strip flooring would need replacing
I’m not gonna lie, the first steps of going down in that basement would have creeped me out😂 If renovated back more original it could be such a cool old house.
Antique houses with stone or brick floor basements meant they had money. Not surprising based off the house, but that was a middle class place back then. Also maybe MA is different but my state doesn't care about code for an old house. It was built before code, so they don't factor it in. I had no issues buying my 1790.
No good deals on foreclosed houses anymore. If it was a good house, in a desirable area, the bank would simply turn it over to a realtor and want full market value for it. If it’s a bargain, there is a good reason it is going cheap. Same thing with repo’ed used cars; they are almost always reclaimed in nasty, damaged, abused, and wrecked condition. People abuse them until they break then stop making the payments.
The basement was paved by a thrifty yankee with what was probably ship ballast. Part of the basement flooring looked like with cobblestone and other cheap English bricks. If this was a wealthy dr 's house he probably had a wine cellar or food items kept down there in the cold and dark. As to the log rafters again yankee thrift. Why finish off items not going to be seen by no one but the family or servents?
Nightmare. They don't build them like they used to and thank God. Those logs in the basement aren't anywhere near the size they need to be to support a house that big. $400,000.00 is way too much. Bad bones.
Yes using hand crafted, old growth wood is so bad right? That's why all these ancient houses are still standing and modern ones collapse after 10 years of abandonment! My house is from 1790, they used no nails, no screws, no glue, no Chinese cheapness.
The plaques found in the house pay homage to previous owners. Here is some information I was able to find doing a quick armchair genealogical search this afternoon. Note that I could not verify that these individuals actually lived in this particular house - the closest I could find was an occasional reference to "Main Street" (there were no house numbers even as late as the 1940's census).
- Dr. William Buell and his wife Abigal ("Nabby") were married in 1796. Both were living in Sheffield at the time. It appears they lived there until 1815, at which time they moved to Litchfield, CT, where Dr. Buell was born. This would jive with his plaque (1800-1815) as they may have lived elsewhere before the home was built.
- The plaque for Dr. Nathaniel Preston indicates he lived there from 1815-1835. He married Jane Ashley in 1816. Dr. Preston died in 1825. There were no records found for the death of Jane Ashley, so I can't cooroborate the 1835 date on the plaque.
- I didn't see any wall plaques in the video that accounted for the time period between 1835-1900. If anyone saw one, please let me know.
- Dr. Byron Tompkins' plaque indicates he lived there from 1900-1926. The 1900 census shows him living in Manhattan with his first wife, but by 1910 he was in Sheffield with his second wife. He died in May of 1926.
- Edwin B Dutcher's plaque listed him in the home from 1926-1963. He was not a physician. There is no reference to Mr. Dutcher living in Sheffield until the 1940's census where he is listed as a manager of a lumber supply company. Interestingly enough, his father was born in Sheffield in 1835, so perhaps that is a missing link!
Thank you for the info..interesting!✌️
Awesome insight, we appreciate the information!
It was a bed and Breakfast called Berkshire Manor. The Facebook page still exists with phitos of the rooms when they were beautifully furnished.
It's Saturday night and my wife and I are watching. Everytime you say "deferred maintenance" we have a drink!
yes! lol
If you changed it from deferred maintenance to Dr. Office, the bottle may get used more 😊
@sallypettit7156 That's true!
Love it, I'll keep this in mind for future videos!
@ForeclosureFinder lol. Don't tank us!
So lovely. Would love to see it saved & restored.
The names on the doors are the room names in honor of the Doctors who previously occupied the house when it was the Berkshire Manor “ About Berkshire
Manor
• We offer our patrons five distinctive rooms, each named for a previous occupant of the inn: Dr. Buell Room, Dr. Preston Room, Orin Bills Room, Dr. Tompkins
Room and the Traveller Single Room.”
Fabulous historic home, hopefully someone will restore her!
I agree, a house like this will definitely take the right buyer.
Those tracks on the ceiling is for track lighting, not curtains or room dividers.
This is one for this old house!
I love this home. The room with the humungous fireplace was the original kitchen. The two rooms off of the main entry were the original dining room and the living room. I Would remove that present modern kitchen addition and the rooms with the sliding doors and have a breezeway/patio/deck between the home and the 3 car garage. Upstairs, of course fix the stairs. There are 5 bedrooms up there. I would take the bedroom closest to the master and turn it into a master closet/dressing room and enlarge the bathroom next to it.
P.S. the tracks in the ceiling are from 1990 track lighting!
Yes, it was Dr. Steve Brule's house. He has a show on you tube called 'Check it Out.'
And this monstrosity on a main road with zero insulation is what you call a tear down. You'd be upside down financially before the plumber pulled into the driveway.
Unless you’re the plumber.
At 15:29, another oddity in this place. Did anyone else notice the faucet installed in the entry/stairway? I wonder what that was for?
Didn’t notice, but since you brought it up… I wonder what the heck it would be there for?
Yes, I did. I'm wondering the same thing.
looks like we posted the same question at the same time!
Lol. Probably for doctors to wash their hands!
But the faucets look like they’re about 6 ft in the air… for washing hands…? hair…??
I wonder if this place was being used as a hotel or something. All those bathrooms have showers or tubs, which wouldn't be necessary for an office. Maybe the nameplates on the doors were meant historically as a theme. The weird landing upstairs was perhaps the result of chopping up rooms and needing to accomodate more doorways. Originally the layout probably made more sense.
Nice tour, good thing he was a doctor, he probably fell down the stairs every other day. Structurally it's tore up from the floor up.
Yeah, gut that first, facing bedroom upstairs to create a large landing, and extend the bath jnto whatever space is left...
I was hoping you would show the Laundry sink downstairs......Was it Painted Cement ? And I think you missed showing us a Pantry too......full of charm in it's own way. I love the old Fireplace you could make stew and bread in there.
My old house was built in 1918 and it had the logs as well. It also had wonky floors. Not as bad as this house though. I dearly loved it anyway. For as big as this house is the bedrooms are small.
That’s gonna take an extra $100000+ to make that nice and useable.
I was interested by the faucet & drain pipe in the front hall, 6’ above the floor, on the way up the main stairs. Cool house with a massive resto needed.
The floors are an indication of structurally issues, ie. the foundations have started to collapse and/ or joists have been messed with badly. Who ever buys this should pull everything out, saving what can be salvaged, gut and rebuild. IF this house can be saved it will take someone with a lot of money and time cause I see it as a 3-5 year project.
I help restore houses like this. I didn't see any hacks in the basement. Probably needs to be supported and the non-original strip flooring would need replacing
Good Lord, this is odd but beautiful.
I’m not gonna lie, the first steps of going down in that basement would have creeped me out😂
If renovated back more original it could be such a cool old house.
Antique houses with stone or brick floor basements meant they had money. Not surprising based off the house, but that was a middle class place back then.
Also maybe MA is different but my state doesn't care about code for an old house. It was built before code, so they don't factor it in. I had no issues buying my 1790.
What is your state?
@Lili-xq9sn ME. nothing is "up to code" but if I were to modify something, it would legally need to be up to code.
He didn’t mention the support struts in the basement propping up the ground floor…
looks just like my basement... minus the brick flooring... just dirt here...
No good deals on foreclosed houses anymore. If it was a good house, in a desirable area, the bank would simply turn it over to a realtor and want full market value for it. If it’s a bargain, there is a good reason it is going cheap. Same thing with repo’ed used cars; they are almost always reclaimed in nasty, damaged, abused, and wrecked condition. People abuse them until they break then stop making the payments.
Can anybody think of a reason why there was a faucet tap in the foyer??
Encourage hand washing, lol
Run away from the money pit. Dampness and water damage everywhere.A never ending nightmare.
The basement was paved by a thrifty yankee with what was probably ship ballast. Part of the basement flooring looked like with cobblestone and other cheap English bricks. If this was a wealthy dr 's house he probably had a wine cellar or food items kept down there in the cold and dark. As to the log rafters again yankee thrift. Why finish off items not going to be seen by no one but the family or servents?
Love the old world houses!!
The big job is to level the house it’s done lots of moving over the years
Take 200,000 for it and maybe someone will buy it. But it’s going to take money
Was there a morgue in the house?
Nightmare. They don't build them like they used to and thank God. Those logs in the basement aren't anywhere near the size they need to be to support a house that big. $400,000.00 is way too much. Bad bones.
Yes using hand crafted, old growth wood is so bad right? That's why all these ancient houses are still standing and modern ones collapse after 10 years of abandonment! My house is from 1790, they used no nails, no screws, no glue, no Chinese cheapness.
This needs major work.👎
😷☕
Very nice house. Needs no work inside. Just needs to be painted on the outside.
Yours for only $650K