Progrocker70 I would have thought the trim at the top of the walls would have been wider, they were narrow like today’s trim. I wonder if that was a change from the original.
@@howardturner2905 Actually, while the average home cost around 5-8 thousand, depending on the number of bedrooms needed, these little gems were only 4-6 thousand more back then to cover staircases and those stained glass windows. The washroom facilities werent indoor until years later. And you can almost always tell a restroom add-on by the floor having been raised 5-6 inches to accomodate the new pipes for draining as well as hot and cold water feeds. Usually, it was a small bedroom or, nice sized closet that was sacrificed to accomodate the new toilet facilities.
Gorgeous home! Love the original woodwork and details. It breaks my heart to see many of these homes turned into dingy apartments with painted woodwork. The original elements make these homes distinctive and gracious.
Grew up in a very similar home, back staircase and all! Ours was built in 1879. Now, as an adult, I have a Victorian built in 1860 that needs a ton of work!
I’ve just watched a video of my dream home! I’m nearly speechless...every aspect of your home is spectacular! The furnishings, the woodwork.....The newel post!!! Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous home with us. It’s clear from this video that your home is lovingly cared for and preserved. And I bow to your wife, or whoever cleans it, it’s beyond perfect! By the way, I would love to be the housekeeper and live in the maid’s quarters! 😊
@@esmeraldagreen1992 Fortunately it wasn't constructed of the same cheap, fake materials of today's "mcmansions." They don't build houses like that anymore, unless your name is Rockefeller or Rothschild. ; )
I loved this beautiful house. I would be interested in it’s history, it’s accommodation of modern features, it’s furniture and it’s upkeep/ restoration. Also the kitchen. How about another video Don? Who keeps it so immaculate?
It's fun but also a pain in the arse. It's hard to do restoration on them because nothing is square. Everything has a slight angle or imperfection. Found that out buying a 1920 one room schoolhouse.
Yes, we have to get approval to do anything outside on the house from the historic society. Not a big deal, but the windows with the pulley and sash cords bug me. Ours has the maids and butlers quarters and you can tell no heating ducts or overhead lighting was ran to that side. The woodworking is phenomenal. I don't even know where we would begin to start. You hate to see when people do a disservice to these old houses.
Can you imagine what this house is like at Christmas? GORGEOUS!!! Thank you so much for sharing and preserving history, Don & Mary! Your home is stunning!
I just love old homes like this! So full of character and cozy! Would love to see what it looks like in the evening with all the lights on. Thank you for the tour!
Thank you Don and Mary for allowing us to see the inside of your magnificent home it is just gorgeous. It is just stunning the furniture, stained glass windows, wallpaper and wood floors. Was this house in either of your family and this is how you got it?
What a gorgeous house and home. I love looking at Victorian homes. My family and I have lived for the last 33 years, in now being a 50 year old mobile home, in real bad condition. I'm sure that I'll never live in a house, but it's still my home that raised 7 children in. You know that you are blessed to have that beautiful home.
@Karen Durbin If your mobile home has aluminum wiring (or copper wiring) be sure not to neglect any signs of problems such as flickering lights or non-working outlets. Many mobile home fires are caused by faulty aluminum wiring.
My grandmas house also had a staircase in her kitchen leading up to the hallway of the second floor in addition to the main staircase. Wonder if that feature was common in the1800s.
I worked with a female engineer. She (on her own) bought a three story Victorian from the city. They were going to demolish it, or something, so she only had to pay a small fee for the title. Next, by way of mortgage, she paid to have it MOVED! Paid for new wiring and whatnot. It all cost less than a new home. Lastly, she adopted some orphans and lived happily ever after. She told me this around ten years ago and she was getting ready to retire. So, she did all this around forty years ago. She was a very independent lesbian.
Im suprised some dummy didnt move in and paint all that wood. I loved the wood designs above the doorways on the 1st floor. Each one different. I could of stood to see MORE of the home.
Your home is similar, not the same, to the where house I grew up, built in 1906. My sister still lives there. On entering this house one is in the foyer with a reception room to the left and the formal living room to the right, behind pocket doors. Front stairs to the second floor go up from the foyer. Your stairs are of better design. Behind the living room is the dinning room with pocket doors separation. Behind the dinning room was a room that could be used as: Library, Gentleman’s retiring room, Smoking room, or in my case my BR. Included in the dining room is a china closet that also backs on the pantry. Your house has a butler’s pantry, it is larger than many and has more storage. Off the dining room is the kitchen. The kitchen also accessed: Pantry, Powder room, Cellar, Mudroom, Back door. This flow is common in well thought out homes of the time. During the cold months heat was able to be contained and controlled with minimum effort and cost. In hot weather air flow up the stacked stairs from top opening double hung windows to open attic windows helped to cool with a chimney effect. You have a wonderful home and have done much to preserve history and the way of life at the time. Congratulations.
Thanks very much for your comments. I especially found interesting your comments about heating and cooling these "well thought out homes", as we've found the house isn't really difficult to heat, as you mention. Also, we haven't needed air conditioning, because as you say, the air flows upward and through, cooling with the chimney effect you mentioned. I am amazed at how efficiently these houses were designed. Thanks.
Thanks for letting us see your beautiful home. The woodwork is absolutely amazing. I bought an 1845 Victorian in upstate New York but it needs a lot of TLC right now. Thankfully it has the original woodwork and some of the light fixtures and a copper ceiling in the kitchen. I can't wait to get started restoring it
Brings me so much joy to see an ikea-less, shabby chic-less, non bland beautiful piece of victorian age. Back things were intricate and made with displayed skills and hard work :) very nice!
That was a great tour! Love your home and its history and may I commend you on your camera technique. Most videographers swing the camera around wildly and therefore make it very hard to watch. You didn't do that; it was very smooth. Thank you for sharing the interior of your beautiful home!
You have a gorgeous home love it Thanks for giving a tour My goodness the woodwork is spectacular ,I would hate to have to polish it all lol My son baught a captain's home in The historic part of Barnegat NJ Mostly original in great shape home was built in 1836 Thanks again for letting me tour your beautiful home
Very nice! That was back when homes were made out of good, solid woods. I would have liked to see inside the maid's room and hear how those room buzzers sounded if they still worked.
WoW! Thanx for the home tour. Beautiful, gorgeous! I never understood why anyone that got their hands on a home that still had all the original Woodwork would paint over such beauty or hide it. Paint over the wood frames, fire places, banisters, built in amors or try and rip out such prices them instead of restoring them to not have to do more work. I guess reviving original wood work is a lot more work than just painting over it or gutting is much simpler than the intensive work involved in reviving old wood work especially if it’s detailed wood work but the payoff at the end I wood think is well worth it! Least for me. Beautiful home though!
Sadly many people with vintage homes like this seem to want that "all white with open floor plan interior" look now. While many will go all out and restore the exterior of a vintage home, it seems to end there. Many don't seem to view natural wood as character and charming, but something that's "dated". Now it's one thing if the home was already heavily modified years ago, and everything inside is mostly gone, to redo the interior in a modern style. But to take a house like this one and do that to it is just sad.
Thank you for the video. This home is stunning. I saw the video of where the home was being moved. My goodness! I bet you were walking on nails the entire time. The light fixtures, I fell in love with them. The decor above the doors are gorgeous. Thank you again.
I am SO impressed - thank you so much for this tour. My blood BOILS lol, when I see people buy one of these old homes and then MODERNIZE it. That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Even love all of the old portraits up on the wall - really feels like a walk back in time. Thanks again!
You have the house my husband and I had always wanted. My childhood home was built in 1880 but it looked nothing like this as it was a row house in Pennsylvania. Thank you so much for such a wish come true tour.
Very beautiful and interesting home- thank you Don and Mary- I love the Victorian era and it’s fascinating and beautiful homes, so glad you kept all the wonderful details of your home- gorgeous woodwork! 😍🏡🌹
Incredible!!! We've lost way too many of these architectural jewels. The fretwork makes my head spin. Thanks for not ruining it by upgrading any more than you had to.
I love Victorian homes!! I’m impressed with the stained glass windows in the entry doors, Parkay floors and the ornate woodwork fixtures in the doorways
Oh what a gorgeous old Victorian beauty!!! I too am so glad you didn't modernize her!! I envy you so much! You and your family are so blessed to be able to live in this beautiful piece of history!! Thank you for sharing! Enjoy!!
Glad you didn't modernize the house.
Yep it's getting harder to find natural wood trim like this with all the paint everything white treatment these houses are getting now.
Progrocker70 I would have thought the trim at the top of the walls would have been wider, they were narrow like today’s trim. I wonder if that was a change from the original.
I love wallpaper, I know most people today it's "dated". I think it's charming.
Me too!
@@jkalb1744 Me too, i hate all this white and gray extra-modern stuff trending today. It has zero character or personality.
Thank you for allowing me to see your wonderful home. A Victorian is my dream home.
Mine too!
Mine too
Me too!
me three!
Beautiful home, however, I would have loved to see the kitchen.
Kristina Giovanni I’m sure the kitchen was left out of the tour because it’s a 21st Century kitchen
I was wondering the same....where in the heck is the kitchen!?!?!?
There's a bit of a glimpse of it. You can see the stove a tiny bit and can tell that the kitchen would be modern.
It’s most likely modernized.
The Mrs. probably put the kibosh on that. lol
You have a beautiful Home! I am a big fanatic of the Victorian ERA. Your tour is very much appreciated.
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Jeez whoever built this must've been l o a d e d.
Yes sir all of that very detailed wood work and case goods is spectacular and pricey
@@howardturner2905 Actually, while the average home cost around 5-8 thousand, depending on the number of bedrooms needed, these little gems were only 4-6 thousand more back then to cover staircases and those stained glass windows.
The washroom facilities werent indoor until years later.
And you can almost always tell a restroom add-on by the floor having been raised 5-6 inches to accomodate the new pipes for draining as well as hot and cold water feeds.
Usually, it was a small bedroom or, nice sized closet that was sacrificed to accomodate the new toilet facilities.
You should make more videos of this house. Detailing each room. I’d love to see the kitchen and inside the pantry. Great video!
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
Yes, there were also doors in the third floor room that he didn’t explain. Maybe they are closets...
Becky Vickers Thank you!
What a beautiful home. Loved the tour. Why didn't you show the kitchen? Would have loved to seen that.
Your home is magnificent! It could be a movie set location...
Would love to know all the trials, tribulations, scandals, and love affairs that occurred in that Victorian beauty! If the house could only talk...
Gorgeous home! Love the original woodwork and details. It breaks my heart to see many of these homes turned into dingy apartments with painted woodwork. The original elements make these homes distinctive and gracious.
A lot of people made money converting old mansions into multi families and then selling income producing properties
Wow! Good people like you keep our History Alive - Literally!!
Beautiful Home!!
Thank you so much for posting this. I enjoyed it very much!
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Grew up in a very similar home, back staircase and all! Ours was built in 1879. Now, as an adult, I have a Victorian built in 1860 that needs a ton of work!
Keep at it the end result will be well worth it !!
I’ve just watched a video of my dream home! I’m nearly speechless...every aspect of your home is spectacular! The furnishings, the woodwork.....The newel post!!! Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous home with us. It’s clear from this video that your home is lovingly cared for and preserved. And I bow to your wife, or whoever cleans it, it’s beyond perfect! By the way, I would love to be the housekeeper and live in the maid’s quarters! 😊
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Beautiful! I love how original you keep it. So many people have these homes and RIP things out to add modern design. Makes me want to vomit.
Yep they do it all the time and still will call it "vintage".
Better than McMansions
That house WAS a MacMansion in its heyday.
@@esmeraldagreen1992 Fortunately it wasn't constructed of the same cheap, fake materials of today's "mcmansions." They don't build houses like that anymore, unless your name is Rockefeller or Rothschild. ; )
@@esmeraldagreen1992 Absolute fucking bullshit!
It's obvious that your house is loved and well cared for.
I loved this beautiful house. I would be interested in it’s history, it’s accommodation of modern features, it’s furniture and it’s upkeep/ restoration. Also the kitchen. How about another video Don? Who keeps it so immaculate?
Such a beautiful home, I wish more people would put the time and energy into keeping an older home!
It's fun but also a pain in the arse. It's hard to do restoration on them because nothing is square. Everything has a slight angle or imperfection. Found that out buying a 1920 one room schoolhouse.
Yes, we have to get approval to do anything outside on the house from the historic society. Not a big deal, but the windows with the pulley and sash cords bug me. Ours has the maids and butlers quarters and you can tell no heating ducts or overhead lighting was ran to that side. The woodworking is phenomenal. I don't even know where we would begin to start. You hate to see when people do a disservice to these old houses.
I just bought a 1915 that has been modernized, but planning on restoring to it's former glory!
@@stavechurch9973 the world need more people like you
Can you imagine what this house is like at Christmas? GORGEOUS!!! Thank you so much for sharing and preserving history, Don & Mary! Your home is stunning!
I really enjoyed that tour...I'm a very natalgic person ...beautiful.....
I love your home. Thank you💜
Absolutely beautiful. The woodwork in this house is gorgous. So glad it hasn't been painted. Love the stained glass as well.
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Beautiful home that has been preserved so well. Thanks for sharing this gem.
Your home is lovely. Thank you for showing us.
Such a beautiful and well preserved house. It looks much valuable than 4000+ sqft modern houses. You have a great home for you and your family. 👍
All your hard work and love, truly shows throughout your beautiful home. Appreciated the tour thank you.
I just love old homes like this! So full of character and cozy! Would love to see what it looks like in the evening with all the lights on. Thank you for the tour!
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soo original beautiful house, what a dream...
Your home is very beautiful, thank you for showing us 💕
Thank you don for showing me your lovely homexx
Thank you Don and Mary for allowing us to see the inside of your magnificent home it is just gorgeous. It is just stunning the furniture, stained glass windows, wallpaper and wood floors. Was this house in either of your family and this is how you got it?
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Absolutely stunning !!!!
What a gorgeous house and home.
I love looking at Victorian homes.
My family and I have lived for the last 33 years, in now being a 50 year old mobile home, in real bad condition.
I'm sure that I'll never live in a house, but it's still my home that raised 7 children in. You know that you are blessed to have that beautiful home.
@Karen Durbin If your mobile home has aluminum wiring (or copper wiring) be sure not to neglect any signs of problems such as flickering lights or non-working outlets. Many mobile home fires are caused by faulty aluminum wiring.
My grandmas house also had a staircase in her kitchen leading up to the hallway of the second floor in addition to the main staircase. Wonder if that feature was common in the1800s.
Yes, it was very common in the larger houses. They were known as the back stairs, usually only the servants used them.🙂
Mystically Merry interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your lovely home with us. It is truly a masterpiece.
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I love seeing a home like this preserved. Absolutely stunning!
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March 3, 2019: Thanks for sharing your home! Lynchburg, VA
What a gorgeous home. I would feel like a Queen to live in your home. Thank you!
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More, more more please. Thanks for not speeding through. I love your home.
Your Home 🏡 is Absolutely Lovely!!! Well Persevered and Cared For. What a Beautiful Home. You Were So Through Giving Your Tour😊. Tfs💝
Beautiful home. Can’t imagine how much is spent on electricity. Thank you for sharing your home.
This house is inspiring for me when I'm older
I worked with a female engineer. She (on her own) bought a three story Victorian from the city. They were going to demolish it, or something, so she only had to pay a small fee for the title. Next, by way of mortgage, she paid to have it MOVED! Paid for new wiring and whatnot. It all cost less than a new home. Lastly, she adopted some orphans and lived happily ever after. She told me this around ten years ago and she was getting ready to retire. So, she did all this around forty years ago. She was a very independent lesbian.
Even the maid's bathroom was elegant. Especially the white tiles; and all fixtures ceramic.
Im suprised some dummy didnt move in and paint all that wood. I loved the wood designs above the doorways on the 1st floor. Each one different. I could of stood to see MORE of the home.
I live in a house built by my great grandfather in 1910 in India. You have very well maintained your house.
Wow! Your home is stunning. Im so glad you kept it period. Truly awesome .
Just Fab, Sadly They don't build them like that anymore
My parents had an amazing home from the 1900's and completely modernized it😠😠😠 I always wanted to buy it and restore it back to its glory days
Wow! The real Mc Coy! Love the squeaky floors! It’s great when people honor the past &
want to preserve it.
Do you ever have any paranormal things happening? 😊👻
I Love Love Love your home, Thank You for showing it to us!!! Just Beautiful💖
Your home is similar, not the same, to the where house I grew up, built in 1906. My sister still lives there. On entering this house one is in the foyer with a reception room to the left and the formal living room to the right, behind pocket doors. Front stairs to the second floor go up from the foyer. Your stairs are of better design. Behind the living room is the dinning room with pocket doors separation. Behind the dinning room was a room that could be used as: Library, Gentleman’s retiring room, Smoking room, or in my case my BR. Included in the dining room is a china closet that also backs on the pantry. Your house has a butler’s pantry, it is larger than many and has more storage. Off the dining room is the kitchen. The kitchen also accessed: Pantry, Powder room, Cellar, Mudroom, Back door. This flow is common in well thought out homes of the time. During the cold months heat was able to be contained and controlled with minimum effort and cost. In hot weather air flow up the stacked stairs from top opening double hung windows to open attic windows helped to cool with a chimney effect. You have a wonderful home and have done much to preserve history and the way of life at the time. Congratulations.
Thanks very much for your comments. I especially found interesting your comments about heating and cooling these "well thought out homes", as we've found the house isn't really difficult to heat, as you mention. Also, we haven't needed air conditioning, because as you say, the air flows upward and through, cooling with the chimney effect you mentioned. I am amazed at how efficiently these houses were designed. Thanks.
Thanks for letting us see your beautiful home. The woodwork is absolutely amazing. I bought an 1845 Victorian in upstate New York but it needs a lot of TLC right now. Thankfully it has the original woodwork and some of the light fixtures and a copper ceiling in the kitchen. I can't wait to get started restoring it
Your house sounds amazing!
Your truly amazing home was a complete pleasure!!
Brings me so much joy to see an ikea-less, shabby chic-less, non bland beautiful piece of victorian age. Back things were intricate and made with displayed skills and hard work :) very nice!
That was a great tour! Love your home and its history and may I commend you on your camera technique. Most videographers swing the camera around wildly and therefore make it very hard to watch. You didn't do that; it was very smooth. Thank you for sharing the interior of your beautiful home!
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Would love to know the family history. I hope your home remains safe in your family line.
You have a gorgeous home love it
Thanks for giving a tour
My goodness the woodwork is spectacular ,I would hate to have to polish it all lol
My son baught a captain's home in The historic part of Barnegat NJ
Mostly original in great shape home was built in 1836
Thanks again for letting me tour your beautiful home
Thank you for sharing. The woodwork is in pristine condition as is the home. Is there a hidden staircase or room?
You have a most beautiful home
Your home is beautiful never change it
Thank you very much for posting this, I really enjoyed it!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
GOOD HEALTH TO ENJOY.
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING. CAMILLE AUST.
Beautiful!
Beautiful house. Thank you for sharing this wonderful Victorian home.It was a pleasure to see it.
As beautiful as it is impressive. Hats off to maintaining its original structure and design, while also its functionality today.
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Very nice! That was back when homes were made out of good, solid woods. I would have liked to see inside the maid's room and hear how those room buzzers sounded if they still worked.
Oh my, I’ve never seen a house so beautiful! Thank you for the tour!
Thank you! What a beautiful piece of history!
love this house
I've this great beauty , never change a thing!!
What a beautiful home, it has an Europen vibe, with the parquet and woodwork. Thank you for keeping the history of the house!
Very nice. The lighter woodwork makes it more cheerful than other older houses.
Mr Kinzler, thank you so much for sharing your beautiful home! It's just my style!!!!
My dream home! I love the built in china cabinet.
I love the older orate homes. Thank you for sharing
Just beautiful
The fretwork in the doorways!!! Droooool! Very beautifully furnished, light and airy and elegant! Very lovely!
But a lot of work to keep dusted.
Lovely home. So great to see it for the most part untouched. Just wished we got to see it a bit more and in more detail. But thank you.
Such a great video! Do you have all this mobiliar from your grandparents or another people from older times?:)
WoW! Thanx for the home tour. Beautiful, gorgeous! I never understood why anyone that got their hands on a home that still had all the original Woodwork would paint over such beauty or hide it. Paint over the wood frames, fire places, banisters, built in amors or try and rip out such prices them instead of restoring them to not have to do more work. I guess reviving original wood work is a lot more work than just painting over it or gutting is much simpler than the intensive work involved in reviving old wood work especially if it’s detailed wood work but the payoff at the end I wood think is well worth it! Least for me.
Beautiful home though!
Sadly many people with vintage homes like this seem to want that "all white with open floor plan interior" look now. While many will go all out and restore the exterior of a vintage home, it seems to end there. Many don't seem to view natural wood as character and charming, but something that's "dated". Now it's one thing if the home was already heavily modified years ago, and everything inside is mostly gone, to redo the interior in a modern style. But to take a house like this one and do that to it is just sad.
No Basement huh?? But very beautiful late 19th Century Mansion!... :D
Thank you. It is beautiful.
Such a beauty!
Thank you for the video. This home is stunning. I saw the video of where the home was being moved. My goodness! I bet you were walking on nails the entire time. The light fixtures, I fell in love with them. The decor above the doors are gorgeous. Thank you again.
What a treasure trove of architectural delights! Glad I stumbled upon this video. Hope you're well and still enjoying this beautiful home in 2023!
Beautiful. I would love to live in a house like this someday.
Lovely Lovely Vintage Home. Your so fortunate to have a piece of History to live in. Tfs💐
A beautiful home. Thank you for Sharing and taking great care of the house.
This home is so beautiful. So many Intricate designs in the doorways and the floor. It's just a breathtaking house.
Absolutely stunning!
I am SO impressed - thank you so much for this tour. My blood BOILS lol, when I see people buy one of these old homes and then MODERNIZE it. That doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Even love all of the old portraits up on the wall - really feels like a walk back in time. Thanks again!
You have the house my husband and I had always wanted. My childhood home was built in 1880 but it looked nothing like this as it was a row house in Pennsylvania. Thank you so much for such a wish come true tour.
Very beautiful and interesting home- thank you Don and Mary- I love the Victorian era and it’s fascinating and beautiful homes, so glad you kept all the wonderful details of your home- gorgeous woodwork! 😍🏡🌹
Incredible!!! We've lost way too many of these architectural jewels. The fretwork makes my head spin. Thanks for not ruining it by upgrading any more than you had to.
I want to see the kitchen sink, stove and frig. Love the house.
I love Victorian homes!! I’m impressed with the stained glass windows in the entry doors, Parkay floors and the ornate woodwork fixtures in the doorways
that audio recording device is from the 1890's too lol jk
Oh what a gorgeous old Victorian beauty!!! I too am so glad you didn't modernize her!! I envy you so much! You and your family are so blessed to be able to live in this beautiful piece of history!! Thank you for sharing! Enjoy!!
Thank you for sharing, it’s a beautiful house.