Incredibly Unique 200 year old Abandoned House/ Log Cabin Up North
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This beautiful old house actually started as a log cabin, then had some massive updates in the late 1800’s I would assume. Very unique front and exterior. Thanks for watching! Like & comment & subscribe if you enjoy!
I thought you were saying turd. I had to listen to it a few times to realize you were saying turret. 😂😂😂😂😂
I did too! 🤣
Is there any way you can take these pictures to the historical society to see if they could save this house.. ? That is a national treasure. Not many log cabins have survived
Hanging up was a grip from a saw I believe. The door on the second level is part of a set of pocket doors, or a barn door on a rail.
That's what it looked like to me...
Most likely a back saw.
@@barfoonisland2003 What is a back saw?
@@jeanbowers3569 I have a back saw that has a 16" blade. It is shorter than a convention saw but had doesn't bend as easily. A back saw is used mostly for sawing moldings.
As a buildings archaeologist in UK I find that early fabric fossilised in the C19 house 'truly awesome'. 👍
Thanks Kappy and Ruby for another awesome find!! Ruby has a great eye for the things that make this house a home. The thing that she hung back on the wall is a handle for a hand saw. By now I’m sure you already know that! Lol. I lived in an over 200 year old log cabin for years. It was just beautiful with all of it’s charm and imperfections. It still had the ladder to get upstairs. With the size of the logs it stayed nice and warm in the winter. Especially upstairs. Y’all stay safe out there together. Looking forward to your next find!!
What an amazing and surprising place! Serious grandma and grandpa vibes. Pieces of their energy still there. Loving though. Thanks for the explore!
I can only imagine this house in it's Glory years...and to me it seemed to give a contented feel, as though no matter her condition today, her purpose was fulfilled as it was intended.
I believe she 'could be' saved, but I'm not sure she really wants to be.
Au revoir beautiful, may your remaining days be peaceful.
Hey guys, that house literally looks like a house I restored years ago minus the logs ❤️❤️❤️ video I’ll watch couple more times!! Be safe!
Awesome house in my home state.Maybe when they make the next Steven King movie this could be one of the sets.
The small blue jar was a Vicks vapor rub jar. When kids got sick parents would rub that on their chest and button the PJ's up.
This was my brothers house. He passed away a few years ago and none of my children wanted to live in town. It was a sad day when we sold it last year.
I’m sorry for your loss. I pray the home is restored and saved but wanted to record it and save it for future generations too see our beautiful American architecture! Just in case. See too many beautiful old homes torn down nowadays!
I would of taken it
What is the history of the house? When built?
I wish you could have kept this house in the family. Such a shame it is falling apart.
The home is in sale
Cool old house! Love that old basement. Nothing like seeing a stone foundation and those logs for beams/joists. You know it's ancient when you see that! Thanks for the tour guys! Hopefully Spring will get here soon cause like you said, it's been cold!!
Thanks for sharing this. I love this house and if I could, I would restore it hands down. All it takes is tons of money. But besides all that, it's odd how the doors opened as if on cue. Could be a draft but maybe not because there's voices in this house too. There's more than these but here's some I can hear really well. A guys voice at 2:50-2:53 says "You can't tell me that- then I don't know who'll tell her" the second part is easier to hear. A way louder voice is a lady who says "I see you!" at 7:18.
I heard the "I see you" and that didn't sound like Ruby at all.I only heard faint wispers at the 2:50 mark but still creepy.
Absolutely heard the "I see you." It was quick! Good catch.
I heard Ruby asking, “What’s that?” at 7:18” about the saw handle.
@@Fuzzmom903 I listened to it about 10 more times and I think you're right,just Ruby.
@@timhollis3390 the other voices were creepier, they were actually evil so I didn't note them.
I love the old exposed knob and tube wiring at 4:53! That would be very cool to keep as an accent if this house gets restored.
Gorgeous old home, I'd think the log cabin may be 1700's. Maybe the ghosts of family past was opening the doors for you to come look.
Wow Kappy what a beautiful find. The log cabin is just spectacular. I love your videos, like I have said before if I were 30 years younger I would explore old places. I appreciate the respect you and Ruby have for the places you explore. So Thank you for sharing your love for adventure and exploring. Please be safe!! 🙏🤗
Basements are our friends!!!! Embrace the opportunity to experience!!!
@14:47 I kept thinking you were saying Turd! "It's nasty up here!" Until 15:23! LOL
The thing that Ruby showed you by the workbench looked to be a saw handle, like the kind that you might have seen played as a music instrument with a bow (typically used for lumber).
Also, the inset wheels in that door were likely for a pocket door.
This house is for everyone who laments no one fixing these old houses up, as it looks like someone tried to fix it up but didn't have the budget for it.
Thanks for the video. Oh, it would be nice to have more of a narrational transition between houses like "...and here's some shots of the places on our way home."
Lot of orbs in attic. I would go back to the log home look and clean up the hardwood floors. That could be a very nice home. I have dog run home blueprints. And the dog run part will look like the wood and chinking in this home. Thank you for posting.
Go back and watch when Tori opens the wooden chest on the floor that looks like a medicine chest. You can see a long wispy smoke pass up from the floor in front of the camera.
Hey Kapps! Awesome exploration!
You know, that house reminds me of the time I spent a long day at work and was in a hurry to go back to sleep. It helps to keep track of your progress on a daily routine and get your thoughts on the topic of your business.
Anyway, my husband has been dissolved for a long time. Bye Kappy!
The wooden handle on the wall was a handle to an old hand saw. My dad was a carpenter and had a few of them, just not that fancy.
The logs, wow! Incredible house.
When it's Kappy I know the tour is fascinating.His love for the forgotten beautiful old homes is like mine just awesome,sad these homes are not SAVED...
Hey Guys! I am fairly new to your channel, and I LOVE it! I watch your videos all day (on my days off). You two are so cute, Ruby is a great help, and she has a good eye! Thank you for exploring these great old houses, even in the freezing cold. We appreciate it! I look forward to many more of your explorations! 😍
It's the handle of a old saw
So ornate atleast compared too today! Thank you!
@@urbanexploringwithkappy1773 the old stuff was not only incredibly functional but totally breathtaking in its design, look at the old sewing machine stand vs sewing machines today
Another great tour through a lovely old home. 👍👍👍
Thanks for the interesting video Kappy & Ruby! The wooden piece you found looks like the handle of an old saw. The blade is gone. My Dad used to have one like that.
Amazing find! A log cabin disguised as a victorian house. That's a premiere for me.
It will be a sin if that house is demolished. Talk about good bones, that one seems massive.
Looks like someone was working on this old girl and ran out of interest or money or maybe both. She has a pretty side porch and the logs are amazing hope someone comes along and brings her back up to what she deservers.Great video Kappy !!👍👍
The owner died of a heart condition and no one took over for him
7:26 - it is the wooden handle of an old handsaw.
The design of that house (looking from the road outside) is amazing! It's like a house you'd expect to find a relative of the "Adam's Family" living in.
Every time Kappy says turret I hear turd...🤣😂🤣😂....sorry Kappy, but I have to focus back on turret...🤭🤭🤭
Same!! Lol!
Great place. Thx for showing us that. I love that house.
Beautiful, thank you!
You guys are great. Best videoing tapeing I've seen in all your adventures. 👏👏
Great video, enjoying your channel very much, Kapp. I can’t help but think you are profiling America’s ongoing collapse, in a healthy society these houses would have been maintained and cherished. Such a vast waste of resources.
Kappy hope you enjoyed filming it
Beautiful house, that tower roof is astounding!
Back in the day they only cut 2 sides of the log to make the walls. Leaving The bark on the other 2 unused sides was very common
It's much stronger than it looks from the outside.
I hope the right person buys it and restores it..
Thanks
Hello Kappy 👋 Hello Ruby 👋
Interesting house, thank you
Thank you for watching!! :)
THIS is a wonderful house!!
That is a huge log cabin.
Beautiful house. It should be saved. What was the marbled doorknob made from? Just beautiful.
This house has quite a bit of Pennsylvania Dutch wood detail on the outside of it :)
The second I saw this I knew it was in PA not because I know where this house is it’s because of where the house is located so close to the road. Almost every house in PA that’s close to a road is almost right on the road. Not much of a front yard maybe 10’-20’ close to the road. My daughter in law is from PA when going up there that’s the first thing I noticed almost all the houses on main roads the houses are very close to the road with hardly no front yard. It’s VERY cool it was once a log cabin
Cool explore, say hello to Ruby
The picture things are called slides and it was a way folks did things back in the day so they could sit around and watch the memory of there life
Reminds me of movie Nothing But Trouble.
2 pac was in that movie. He was a part of DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, the hip hop ensemble that had the wierd musical interlude. Before he became famous on his own as a solo "artist".
Dan Akroyd as well right, lol? Have to go back and brush up on that classic film.
@@saltpeter7429 great movie. 👍 have a great weekend friend
That was originally a Lincoln log set from 1700s
Way to 😎😎😎🤗 🏠!! Kappy, Ruby 👌👌
Those little pictures with the border around them are called “slides.” You need a slide projector to view them.
I'm always sad to see places like this. I think about the lives lived there, the history of it. I wish someone could save a house like this. It will be another one lost😞
wow.... I wish there was a tv show that would revamp this place - If I played the lottery...
Great house 😃
Man, that exposed tube & knob electrical is scary
Absolutely beautiful find!! Can I ask which part of Pa? I love it, love it, love it!!!!
Yes! I would love to know as well!
That basement reminded me of the ending of The Blair Witch Project 😮
I thought the SAME THING!!
we bought an old farm house and there was a section that had log cabin under wallpaper
I bet that house was really something back in its day..
old fashioned saw handle
That thing Ruby handed you and you said to comment
Is the handle to a hand saw..i have one like that
The thing Ruby had in her hand is a handle to a saw. It missing the blade. The house on the outside has a lot of structure and looks like a house. The house on the inside on the other hand looks like it's been took apart too many times and forgot where the parts go. Its almost like a puzzle.
That piece of carved wood was the end of a hand saw.
That's a handle to a saw. This is a tragedy to see it in this shape. They could build beautiful architecture in the 1800s with less technology and then you look at those houses next door built 100 years later and realize things don't improve.
Omg. You are in my area. I know exactly where you are.
You need to getting something to eat across the road at the deli. It’s excellent food.
We saw that place! Was totally packed! Have too stop next time in area! Thanks for watching!
Did anyone hear the creepy sounding moan or laugh at scene 10:38-10:40 mark? I had to replay it a few times and turn up the volume. He said man its old in here, and there is a laugh or moaning sound. I thought maybe a sound from a passing vehicle? No vehicle I heard sounds like that. LOL :)
Thompsontown, Pennsylvania? I think I used to live across the street.
Can we buy the statue & pictue ?? Lol but for real And On that bookshelf that poetry book on the right side of the shelf the2 to last one . ill pay shipping 👾
It's a real shame that such a beautiful old style house like this was built and then eventually abandoned it's pretty stupid, i mean other than for financial reasons i don't really understand why anyone would just leave a gorgeous looking house to rot like that.
Sweet
Cool 😀
I believe claw foot tubs and enamal ones are thanks to the creator of Buick he's was once a plumber hundred plus years ago
Nice
It would be a shame for this house to be demolished, since it would take boat loads of money to restore it. If this would come to pass call on the guys at "Salvage Dogs" to save the doors, bathtub and other building furnishings. Then call on the guys at "Barnwood Builders" to dismantle to reuse the log cabin wood.
city /state where these is ????? give us more info on these palces
7:28 handsaw handle
Saw handle
There's probably a reason why nobody wants to fix it up perhaps it's the noise from the busy road. Some people would like to set on the porch and it would be unpleasant with the noise.
It’s the top of a saw.
I live in west Michigan on a farm. My house was built in 1885 and all the outbuildings and huge barn were built in 1900. I see a lot of similarities in this house that are in mine. Like the one commenter said, I wish these walls could talk!
Edit: I kept everything as authentic and restored as I could and it always gets people talking 😊 I love history and I love your channel. You and Ruby keep up the fantastic work!
Have you ever found the garbage pit(s) in the back a few yards away from your house? We owned a house built in 1884 on Hemingways Plat (yes, the Ernest one) in the village of Lake Orion in Oakland County. The first church ever built in Oakland County was right across our front yard. Our dogs kept digging up their dog pen and there were little artifacts here and there so we dug up the entire garbage pit! We got so many artifacts from it.
Look up 2nd empire strikes back its a play on words as house style is empire. It's in st Louis and he's even doing the plaster walls they would have been done
Appreciate the kind words!! Glad you enjoy! Thanks for watching! :)
You are so lucky to live in good old charm. The history must feel magical. Not much of that kind of history out here in western Canada. 🤩
Good call on keeping it authentic. When I see someone look at an old house with character and start talking about updating everything, I want to slap the shit out of them.
The size of those 'logs' is impressive... (those were not Spring Saplings!) However old that house/cabin is, the log materials represent ages of old growth! Not to mention the hours of hard sweat put into just shaping that hard wood, swinging the adze, as fueled by homemakers producing rib-sticking food and care for aching muscles! (those folks didn't need for a gym membership cause they worked to live, building structural monuments to their courage, persistence and raw strength. Something's from this time period, we really ought to get back into. A couple hundred years from now, a gym membership certificate will be nothing to show for, considering all the hours consumed by it. We really need to get back to building basic monuments of our lives, be it dwellings and/or families....
Well said.
My generation or the generation of today will never know the labor put into these beautiful homes. But time marches on and everything changes. My Dad knew this kind of work. I loved to sit and listen to his stories of life growing up. He would have been 101 years old January 10. He passed two weeks shy of his 97 birthday.
@@kathyvenable8793 Wow! He was a product of vigorous and constructive times. I'll bet he had some fabulous stories! The kind like Hollywood would never think up! It's such a great loss, losing our elders; they're the last tangible threads to a more wholesome world and times. So sorry for your loss. I envy you the stories he left to you. Ours is a Good Lord that made sure we have memories to embrace, in such times of our lives. God Bless you and your memories.
Good old elbow grease was good for the soul in those days. Life was a little more simple. Sorry to hear about your dad. He saw many changes in life I am sure. I bet he was a wise man.
@@kathyvenable8793 even my generation knew work. I am 65 years old and I take pride in what I do by hand. It feels worth while
Tower vs turret: Towers start on the first floor and connect to the ground. Turrets start higher up and have empty space below, no connection to the ground. This house has a Second Empire (1860s - 1880s) style tower.
That's interesting information. Thanks!
Awesome house! That was a saw handle. Bonus fun: every time you said "turret" I thought it sounded like "turd."
I thought he was saying turd, as well! 😋
I thought he said that too!
I kept looking on the floor of the Attic to find the "turd" he kept mentioning. 😂
It didn't help that he said "oh gosh, it's nasty up here, ergh" right after the first time he mentioned the "turd". 14:51
Now that's what I'm hearing..haha!😄
I was going to say it's part of a handle to an old hand saw.
I love watching you and Ruby and the pieces of history you share with us all
Ruby likes wallpaper and you like steamer trunks and door knobs. I like old woodstoves.
Thanks Ruby for finding the attic door.
You are my favorite RUclips in this genre. No glamor, no dumb music, no click bait, no bs! Keep it up and I'll keep watching!
YES!! That ANNOYING Goddamned music all the others put in their videos, UUUGGGHHH!
I especially like that you don’t play the loud, crazy music. Also the first staircase you showed to us was so interesting to me. The rise was not very high and the run was wider which makes walking up the stairs much easier. When we went the coliseum in Rome the rises were not very high and the run was very. It made you feel like you were walking on a sidewalk.
Hey Kappy and Ruby. Beautiful house. Did look a bit haunted! The first item was a saw handle. Great find on the amazing wallpaper. (And the attic stairs, Ruby) Thanks again for the explore. ✌️
Yes that wallpaper is sweet.
yes saw handle. Anna In Ohio
No such thing as a ghost genius😂💯
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@@Lakridza67 look behind you
This is my hometown, from my understanding when we had a mayor way before my time. This used to be his home. There was someone restoring it but I believe that fell through I drive by it daily almost and it’s such a shame to see the condition it’s in.
Hi cousin! I am with the Juniata County Historical Society. This was Dr. Greenleaf’s house back in the day. (Like he rode a horse to make house calls timeframe.) He had no heirs, so his housekeeper, Katie Kepler, inherited it. She had another home so she just rented this one out in the early 1900s.
The last person to own it was in the process of restoring it but died of a heart condition
Hello. I bought the house two houses down from this place. From the Kepler family. It was interesting to know that she was gifted this house.
Hi Kappy and Ruby. That item hanging on the wall was a handle for a hand saw. My dad had one. Loved this place with the log cabin interior. Also loved the turret. You and Ruby make a great team. Been enjoying hearing her talking with you. Looking forward to the next adventure.
I use my handsaw. 🙂
This house has a story to tell I wish we could here it, then I want this house stripped to its original bones and remade in its original form.
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M 7:42 My dad had a handsaw with a head like that.
Casper the friendly ghost he was opening doors on the house.
The house looks like a haunted house. It should be preserved
as a historical landmark
Imagine my surprise. I pass this house all the time and wonder why was it left to die. Located in Thompsontown Pa. settled in 1755 and incorporated in 1867. It's located on old route 22 between Port Royal and Millerstown. The house is across from the T.town corner deli and the local park. And up the street is a Chevy dealership. There's not a street light in the town. I guess that's the way the house likes it, like the good old days.
It wasn’t restored because the owner died in the process
Thanks for taking the time to tell about the town that it's in. I always like to know where the houses are!
@@barbaralynch3015 O.k., you're welcome Barbara.
I don’t think you have any idea how much these videos are appreciated, I love old historic homes. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work!
This beautiful huge Victorian mansion, or farm house like you call it, deserves to be restored and pampered, as soon as possible. With all it’s elegant character and architectural features, you can tell that this iconic place use to dominate the whole entire land all around at one time, until these neighborhood little houses came along, throughout the course of the years. Hence! I want to take this special opportunity to thank you for bringing us so much entertainment and for taking so much pride in the the kind of work that you do, as you remain the ultimate presentator of this show, Kappy. All the best to you. Johnny, Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦
It was in the process of being redone when the owner died and someone just bought it 2-3 years ago
I hope someone restores it!
Those little snapshots as you called them or slides you use them in a film projector or rather a slide projector great work on your part.
Hey Kappy! This is in my home town! I’ve driven past that home countless times! A lot of the old town style houses in town range from early 1800s and 1900s. The man who lived in that house was the fire chief!
That town would be? Thank you.
Yes what town?
Interesting house. Thanks to Ruby for pointing out the wallpaper and other items in the house. I always like to see the old wallpaper. I love Kappy's sigh and resignation when he discovers a house has a basement, lol. Thanks for taking us through these old houses!
Sorry for spamming but..
You're going to be busy if you stay in PA for a while, PA is chalked full of old places like this. 🙂 Also most old houses in PA only have crawl spaces, so if the "basement" is taller than kneeling, it's been dug out by an owner at some point 😋
I do believe the front rectangle was the log cabin with 2 up and 2 down as in rooms originally. It was very common practice for a couple to build what they could starting out and as the family grew and they prospered over time they would add on to the house and upgrade. That's why u will see odd lay outs and short up and down set of steps leading to rooms in in-between levels in these really old houses. It looks like the last big upgrades they did were during the Victorian period. Really interesting house. To bad there's no history on it.
I am with the Juniata County Historical Society. This was Dr. Greenleaf’s house back in the day. (Like he rode a horse to make house calls timeframe.) He had no heirs, so his housekeeper, Katie Kepler, inherited it. She had another home so she just rented this one out in the early 1900s.
@@jessnostalgia7253 what happened to it after she died?
This makes me so sad. This house was featured last year (I think) or maybe in 2020 on a wonderful website called Old House Dreams. It was listed for sale and we were all hoping that someone historically minded would be able to restore this incredible house to her former glory. I guess that never happened 😢. I'm so glad that you are able to document her before she is gone forever.
I agree. What a shame that these beautiful house go to wAste. Even with an in town location. A big shame
@@shellymiller7101... Yes, even more so with this one as it is so historically significant.
It's being restored right now
Very polite ghosts 👻 This was a gorgeous house at one point in it's lifetime. Thanks for the showing! Next time, please remember to say thank you to the ghosts...it was most likely a previous home owner showing you around. When they open doors for you, they are welcoming you. If they slam doors on you, they want you out.