I truly enjoy your videos showcasing these beautiful old houses and the craftsmenship put into them. Decades from now there wont be quality homes to video as we dont have any. Hopefully we will get back to quality in all areas of our lives.
@@secondaryhighway Awesome, I'm enjoying the rewind in history, though does give a guy a big of heavy feeling, I guess it makes up contemplate our own brief time on this earth.
I always feel sad for a once loved home lost and abandoned. 😢Reminds me of some of the houses in Cape Breton.Damn near froze in the winter . No insulation and heated by a coal stove. No toilets only out houses. Oops giving my age away😂
I have no doubt this cozy house was filled with love, laughter, & music! Shame she’s in such a terrible state! Don’t build them like this anymore! Awesome video bro! 👍👍❤️🤘
Yes. If you don't keep your eyes peeled you'll step right over these little pieces of history that offer a tiny glimpse into what they did to pass the time.
It was nice to have the specific history of this home. Despite the modern windmills in the distance, the views are spectacular, though I imagine it feels pretty remote in the winter. You are braver than me chancing those stairs. Some of these exploration videos of abandoned buildings just provide chatter that proves the person doesn't know what they are seeing. I like that you researched first and then let the silence speak for itself. This was a nice interlude that gave me some serious Willa Cather vibes.
Looks like it's last use was grain storage. The wires running from wall to wall would have held them from bowing out from the pressure of the grain as it was filled up. Thank you for the tour, best regards from Indiana, USA.
I was born in 1957 in Mississippi. I've lived in houses like that. All wood construction except for the fireplace. There was no insulation in the walls or ceiling, we had a bathroom on the back porch and a pump well in the front yard, we had a chicken coop and a small barn for a milk cow. My grandma would get up before daylight and go milk daisy, she would strain the milk through a cheese cloth and put it on the stove and bring it almost to a boil and let it cool down to pasturize the milk. She cooked fat back pork and made biscuits from scratch, I had to go to the chicken coop and get the eggs and I remember being scared of the chickens when I reached under them to get the eggs. We played in the cow pastures bare footed, throwing dirt clods at each other and stepping in cow patties. Then we would go home and wash our feet at the pump in the front yard. We always left a bucket full of water to prime the pump for the next time we needed to use it. Guns were everywhere, laying around fully loaded at all times. Wow, I just realized I'm really old.
lol love the stories. Different time. Now all these kids are stuck to their phones and are trying to get to be the fake people they follow online. I’m happy you had those experiences! 😀
You promised more to come and you delivered! With you, I wonder what that "pocket" on the wall upstairs was. I was hoping someone in the comment section would know. This was very interesting. Joseph must have been a very clever and industrious fellow to move 2 buildings and attach them like that. He probably saved a heap of money by not building with new materials from the ground up. But it wouldn't be easy to do.
Ya that pocket peeked my interest. Maybe it was a holder for something. Maybe that was the parent’s room and Elizabeth kept something next to a table. It was durable leather.
Will be looking for this historic home here in southern Alberta, a once post office/store. Imagine life back in the day. Seems so dreamy but the reality is so many challenges. Great video.✨✨💖💖
Thanks for another abandoned adventure. Hope you don't do this by yourself, I've had two different friends fall through rotten flooring and hurt themselves. Take care and may your adventures be safe and pleasant. Cheers!
Wow, something you'll never see built again, a TOTALLY wooden house. Someone in the past had an eye on saving it. I think those cables running across are to keep it from falling over to one side. Which it's going to do anyway. That wood is so dried out that if it ever caught fire it would bur n down in 6 minutes! Great video, glad to see this place. Too bad it doesn't get fixed up.
@@rickt44I was just gonna say that. I grew up on a farm and we used old wooden buildings for grain bins. Wires were to keep the building from falling apart when you filled it with grain
I'm not sure why but every time I see one of these old abandoned homesteads falling apart like they do, I feel this intense sense of grief, sadness. I think these homes from long ago serve as a reminder to us of how short life is and how little time we really have here. This Earth really has nothing to promise any of us, thus, it's in the Lord I trust.
So many cross overs with our families history. Moving from Russia to Ontario or Manitoba then Saskatchewan where my grandparents were born but didn’t meat until both families moved to Vancouver BC. Other family came from Russia to N Dakota but all went to Alberta In and around Medicine Hat. Great house tour
Yes, look like someone took some hard work to save the house and started gutting room by room as the walls are so bare of plaster or dry wall with only wood strips. I love when old houses get a second chance and are remodel to the original architect beauty. I hope the house continue to hold on and stand tall holding it history.
Another Brilliant Story, I can't help but notice as with the Laing House No Chimney or Fireplaces? and No Electricity Did they just use Belly Stoves with Pipes? Thanks again UK
Upon looking closely I never did see electrical outlets. So yes, I'm assuming it was all pot belly stoves. There was a coal chute in the Laing house. with coal still in the pit. The metal stove chimney was connected from the bottom floor to the top. You see that in the Laing House. There is a chimney in the Anton house or at least see all the bricks on the ground. Thanks for watching.
The bricks are no doubt from a central chimney serving a wood stove on the stair side and a cook stove on the other. Bricks being hard to come by out there.
interesting that there isn't any wall covering. no plaster, no drywall, nothing but wood lathe. can't see how these buildings could have been moved any distance, without falling apart.
It looks like the building was separated by the door and the window and door were built in after or the building is completely different but built by the same person.
@@therealpatriarchy Not sure exactly. I recently saw similar objects at another abandoned house. I thought they may be the shells of a kind of light perhaps?
Would have enjoyed more with voice overs instead of written text. Maybe even add some low back ground music. The heavy breathing is very distracting! But your concept for doing these kind of videos are interesting.
Thanks Barbara. Sorry about the breathing. New creator here, I’ve since moved my mic. The majority of people don’t like music or talking. It becomes too distracting for these kind of videos. But I know we can’t check boxes for everyone’s preferences. My friend Chris Attrell dies similar videos and he provides commentary. He’s a cool guy if you want to check him out. And sincerely appreciate the feedback 😀
I truly enjoy your videos showcasing these beautiful old houses and the craftsmenship put into them. Decades from now there wont be quality homes to video as we dont have any. Hopefully we will get back to quality in all areas of our lives.
Hi and thanks for your comment Felicia. I agree. Perhaps someday these videos will be used for history classes in schools lol :)
These old buildings do have histories & people who loved them. Thanks for sharing it all.
Thanks for watching Brandy! I'm sitting on about 20 more to come out of the next few months.
@@secondaryhighway Awesome, I'm enjoying the rewind in history, though does give a guy a big of heavy feeling, I guess it makes up contemplate our own brief time on this earth.
I really like how you look close up at exactly the right features and touch exactly what wants touching. Very intuitive. Beautiful work.
Took me a while to zone in on things people may be interested in seeing. Seeing through my iPhone takes some getting used to 😀
watching from Philippines
Certainly some fine craftsmanship went into their home 🏠
Beautifully haunting home.
I always feel sad for a once loved home lost and abandoned. 😢Reminds me of some of the houses in Cape Breton.Damn near froze in the winter . No insulation and heated by a coal stove. No toilets only out houses. Oops giving my age away😂
Thanks for this. Just discovered your channel. It has what so many 'urbex' channels are missing.. HISTORY . Love it!
I absolutely agree. I love this history.
It's an itch that needs to be scratched. So many channels focus on the video that they leave the viewer empty like the structures they film.
...and these videos don't have incessant chatter by unknowledgeable explorers. Thank God
I have no doubt this cozy house was filled with love, laughter, & music! Shame she’s in such a terrible state! Don’t build them like this anymore! Awesome video bro! 👍👍❤️🤘
Thanks Carla! 😀
What a neat fine being the book!
Yes. If you don't keep your eyes peeled you'll step right over these little pieces of history that offer a tiny glimpse into what they did to pass the time.
How fascinating. Love the history.
Yes. The small pieces of history are hidden throughout the house. You just have to look.
It was nice to have the specific history of this home. Despite the modern windmills in the distance, the views are spectacular, though I imagine it feels pretty remote in the winter. You are braver than me chancing those stairs. Some of these exploration videos of abandoned buildings just provide chatter that proves the person doesn't know what they are seeing. I like that you researched first and then let the silence speak for itself. This was a nice interlude that gave me some serious Willa Cather vibes.
Amazing comment. Thanks for that. I’m glad it had an impact. I’ve got a big one coming up soon. Beautiful old house in an even more remote location. 😀
Looks like it's last use was grain storage. The wires running from wall to wall would have held them from bowing out from the pressure of the grain as it was filled up.
Thank you for the tour, best regards from Indiana, USA.
Sweet. Indiana, cool!
Wow, Thank you so much for the history here..
Thanks for watching.
I was born in 1957 in Mississippi. I've lived in houses like that. All wood construction except for the fireplace. There was no insulation in the walls or ceiling, we had a bathroom on the back porch and a pump well in the front yard, we had a chicken coop and a small barn for a milk cow. My grandma would get up before daylight and go milk daisy, she would strain the milk through a cheese cloth and put it on the stove and bring it almost to a boil and let it cool down to pasturize the milk.
She cooked fat back pork and made biscuits from scratch, I had to go to the chicken coop and get the eggs and I remember being scared of the chickens when I reached under them to get the eggs.
We played in the cow pastures bare footed, throwing dirt clods at each other and stepping in cow patties. Then we would go home and wash our feet at the pump in the front yard. We always left a bucket full of water to prime the pump for the next time we needed to use it. Guns were everywhere, laying around fully loaded at all times. Wow, I just realized I'm really old.
lol love the stories. Different time. Now all these kids are stuck to their phones and are trying to get to be the fake people they follow online. I’m happy you had those experiences! 😀
Excellent! Thanks for this journey.
You are very welcome!🙏
You promised more to come and you delivered! With you, I wonder what that "pocket" on the wall upstairs was. I was hoping someone in the comment section would know. This was very interesting. Joseph must have been a very clever and industrious fellow to move 2 buildings and attach them like that. He probably saved a heap of money by not building with new materials from the ground up. But it wouldn't be easy to do.
Ya that pocket peeked my interest. Maybe it was a holder for something. Maybe that was the parent’s room and Elizabeth kept something next to a table. It was durable leather.
The pocket attached to the wall held rosary beads, for prayer. Had to ask a retired nun, what they were for. ❤
@@lisatoles2705 Oh, of course! What a great idea. Thank you!
Will be looking for this historic home here in southern Alberta, a once post office/store. Imagine life back in the day. Seems so dreamy but the reality is so many challenges. Great video.✨✨💖💖
Thanks 🙏. Such an oldest setting. I love these scenes and it’s even more haunting to quietly kneel in a room.
Thanks for another abandoned adventure. Hope you don't do this by yourself, I've had two different friends fall through rotten flooring and hurt themselves. Take care and may your adventures be safe and pleasant. Cheers!
Thanks. 🙏 yes I hope it doesn’t happen to me. I try to be as safe as I can. My location is always known.
Wow, something you'll never see built again, a TOTALLY wooden house. Someone in the past had an eye on saving it. I think those cables running across are to keep it from falling over to one side. Which it's going to do anyway. That wood is so dried out that if it ever caught fire it would bur n down in 6 minutes! Great video, glad to see this place. Too bad it doesn't get fixed up.
It's an iconic wooden beacon on the prairies for sure. I hope it has many more years left.
The wires means somebody used it for a grainery at one point
@@rickt44I was just gonna say that. I grew up on a farm and we used old wooden buildings for grain bins. Wires were to keep the building from falling apart when you filled it with grain
Thank you for sharing the video 🕊️
Hey thanks!😊
It's amazing that all the plaster on the walls and ceilings are gone.
Someone else said that and I didn’t notice that it wasn’t on the floor. Not sure what happened to it.
I'm not sure why but every time I see one of these old abandoned homesteads falling apart like they do, I feel this intense sense of grief, sadness. I think these homes from long ago serve as a reminder to us of how short life is and how little time we really have here. This Earth really has nothing to promise any of us, thus, it's in the Lord I trust.
Well said.
Amazing!!
Thanks for taking the tour!
So many cross overs with our families history. Moving from Russia to Ontario or Manitoba then Saskatchewan where my grandparents were born but didn’t meat until both families moved to Vancouver BC. Other family came from Russia to N Dakota but all
went to Alberta In and around Medicine Hat. Great house tour
Thanks. The prairies are big but also small. Thanks for watching!
Yes, look like someone took some hard work to save the house and started gutting room by room as the walls are so bare of plaster or dry wall with only wood strips. I love when old houses get a second chance and are remodel to the original architect beauty. I hope the house continue to hold on and stand tall holding it history.
It should if it doesn’t meet a spark.
Another Brilliant Story, I can't help but notice as with the Laing House No Chimney or Fireplaces? and No Electricity Did they just use Belly Stoves with Pipes? Thanks again UK
Upon looking closely I never did see electrical outlets. So yes, I'm assuming it was all pot belly stoves. There was a coal chute in the Laing house. with coal still in the pit. The metal stove chimney was connected from the bottom floor to the top. You see that in the Laing House. There is a chimney in the Anton house or at least see all the bricks on the ground. Thanks for watching.
The bricks are no doubt from a central chimney serving a wood stove on the stair side and a cook stove on the other. Bricks being hard to come by out there.
I wonder who lived there after they all left and how much it changed from them to the last occupants
These places did exchange hands, but to renters. So finding out who exactly lived after (if at all), is difficult to find.
No insulation. I know there wasn't any but how did they survive the winter?
I’m sure there was at some point. Straw, mud and newspaper. Looks like it may have been cleaned out with the plaster as it’s non-existent to.
The panorama around the home looks like Corner Gas ⛽️. 👍☮️🌞🏚️
I’ve actually been to the corner gas station. Yes very similar.
Be careful of abandoned wells when u walk the grass
💯. I’ve been to many theses places over and over. I know where they are. But I’ve come across a few scary places for sure.
interesting that there isn't any wall covering. no plaster, no drywall, nothing but wood lathe. can't see how these buildings could have been moved any distance, without falling apart.
Yes, not sure if it had been scooped up and cleaned out at some point.
19th Century = 1800s. 1900s = 20th Century.
I know was there a mistake?
1:30 Count the frames in the top trim for your answer.
8:45 Sleigh bells.
It looks like the building was separated by the door and the window and door were built in after or the building is completely different but built by the same person.
@@therealpatriarchy Not sure exactly. I recently saw similar objects at another abandoned house. I thought they may be the shells of a kind of light perhaps?
Would have enjoyed more with voice overs instead of written text. Maybe even add some low back ground music. The heavy breathing is very distracting! But your concept for doing these kind of videos are interesting.
Thanks Barbara. Sorry about the breathing. New creator here, I’ve since moved my mic. The majority of people don’t like music or talking. It becomes too distracting for these kind of videos. But I know we can’t check boxes for everyone’s preferences. My friend Chris Attrell dies similar videos and he provides commentary. He’s a cool guy if you want to check him out. And sincerely appreciate the feedback 😀
I love the no talking. And I don't hear him breathing