Tour the Historic (and haunted?) Vaile Mansion
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The Vaile Mansion in Independence, Missouri, is a gem of an historic site with an impressive history. In this video tour, our volunteers take you through the home's most interesting rooms, pointing out details along the way and telling the story of Harvey and Sophia Vaile. Learn more about the Vaile Mansion at VisitIndependence.com or VaileMansion.org.
I loved the presenters as they introduced us to this historical house and grounds. I appreciate all your work.
Was thinking that too about the guides. What a delightful group! Homes like this make me weak in the knees.
Indeed it is obvious this mansion is a source of pride to the local community.
Agreed. Having different people describing each room/space held my attention much more than one guide reciting abbreviated descriptions, histories, which happens, I believe, when one has too much to remember and miles to cover by themselves.
Hahahaha I was all in-depth with the guides until the green haired hat woman. She did not fit the scene. I didn’t hear a thing she said all I could look at was that crazy green hair. Hard to take her serious
@@virgettadrinnen9957 Well...if you did not hear a thing she said, you missed out!
All of the hosts do a beautiful job, expressive, not too fast, not too slow. So pleasing to listen too.
So glad to see these beautiful old homes restored. They are works of art. Thank you!
I wonder if the wingless cherub symbolized a lost child or the absence of children.
Child never had.
I was thinking the same, glad to know the answer.
Not sure , but I do know Victorians loved cherubs and Grecian goddesses. I think they were fascinated with Greek and Roman myths in that time period. There are a lot of Victorian houses with Grecian aspects like the plaques around the lights. You guys should watch “ The Second Empire Strikes Back “. It’s a couple from St Louis Missouri “ fixing up a second empire mansion. The guy is incredibly talented and doing it all himself.
So glad this has been saved and maintained-thank you!
As a child I rode by this house every day on the school bus, probably 1965-,1966. I was fascinated by the house. When I was a girl scout we visited the property it
was a very sad nursing home. There was no beauty then,it was institutional. Glad to see it so cared for.
A nursing home? That's so creepy. "Looking for new ghosts, apply within."
This mansion is beautiful! I absolutely love everything about it! The colors are amazing! ❤️🌹❤️
What a lovely restoration, the art, fine designs, furniture, colors used are an inspiration to designers!
I remember that place when it was a nursing home. The restoration has been spectacular. It is a wonderful place!
Have you gone there for a tour?
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Wonderful job Independence, Missouri! It must have taken an immense amount of work and money to bring this jewel back to its original state. I'm sure we wouldn't recognize it as a nursing home. Thank you for sharing this wonderful, historic home with us!
That was a brilliantly filmed and narrated tour of a magnificent historic mansion! As a former docent, I will say that the docents that spoke in this video are amongst the best I've ever heard! If ever I travel to this area, this will be a "must see" for me! Thank you all for your time and effort in producing this excellent presentation!
So cool that they had a different presenter for each room. Loved every second of it.
10 years ago, I came here with my parents. We toured the home and loved it. So glad to see additional items have been donated and efforts continue to make more improvements.
What an amazing property! Well done restoration.
Thank you for the lovely tour conducted by people who obviously loved the mansion ❤️ And being serenaded by the gentleman with
"The Teddy Bear's Picnic" was wonderful! 🦋🦋🦋🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋
What a gorgeous home! I'm happy that it's so beautifully preserved and well cared for. I'd like to hear more about a possible haunting, though. Thank you for this.
Me too, they didn’t mention who is haunting this mansion.
@@cynthiabustamante7551 How would they know ?
They probably showed the word “haunted?” to entice more viewers. The closest thing to strange things in the mansion is when he had the artist paint subliminal faces into the walls where the owner of the mansion would entertain his male friends to some alcohol and get them “tipsy” enough to see those painted faces on the wall come out at them.
Correction: The reed organ is an Estey Artist's Model. It is not German. It is American and was made in Brattleboro VT. I am a reed organist and restorer. The rest of the video is great though!
I need someone to help me fix the straps on my bellows. My mother ordered the strapping material and was told how to properly fix it but we never got to it and then she was I'll and passed away. I guess I'll check RUclips for a video, but would love some expertise.
This video is so beautifully narrated. My thanks goes to all these lovely volunteers.
Wonderful to have volunteers redoing the fountain, outdoors! Beautiful! I’d love to visit! I’m so glad this came up in my feed! What a great video of such a lovely place! Thank you for the tour!
What a well done video! I enjoyed all of the docents. They were all so pleasant and well informed and had great delivery. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Wonderful house and beautiful lady's and gentlemen who took the time, I truly enjoyed your tour, thank you so much.
Absolutely gorgeous!! I love that this home is so beautifully restored and preserved.
A magnificent mansion. Thanks for a brilliant tour.
Thank you for sharing! I live in an old oil boom town where the glorious homes here have sparked my interest in historical architecture. I enjoyed the tour! Well done volunteers!
Where is that at, love old homes
The gentlemen and the ladies did an incredible job describing all of the features the house.
What a well done tour. I thought all the presenters were so eloquent and knowledgeable. I can't wait to visit!
I’ve been in the mansion back in the 80’s. Gorgeous then and now
Well done USA in preserving your heritage! Simply awesome.
Very, very well done! The beautiful home was beautifully presented.
Immensely stunning and interesting! Thank you to all the presenters!
This was a beautiful home.
I enjoyed the tour.
I cant imagine liveing such a perfect house.
Breathtaking, jaw dropping and lavish. I loved the commentaries by the knowledgeable "Friends of Vaile", historians.
Fabulous tour!! Expertly done by very well versed folks!! Thank you so much!! 🥰
We visited Vaile Mansion today and Charlie was our guide. It's a wonderful place full of history and art. A very interesting tour. Highly recommended.
Totally enjoyed this, especially the random information included. Thank you for sharing! 🤗
Such a beautiful house and so beautifully restored! Exciting that you are working on the grounds and pond, too. I would love to see it some day.
What an extraordinary construction and this video tour was a pleasure, it was very well produced. Thankfully no short-sighted developers got a hold of this piece of history. It may have ended up as parking lots and apartments.
What a beautiful home he built for his wife. Love these old home the way they are built . Thank you , for sharing with all of us. I have enjoyed this video very much.
Beautiful house. Sad that the different owner's all had sad lives and then a nursing home . Enjoyed the tour maybe I'll get to come see it one day. O and I loved the singing at the end.
Magnificent! Thank you for the wonderful presentations, history, information, and details. I am impressed with your dedication and hard work maintaining this exquisite old home and the grounds surrounding it!
Beautiful home! So glad it is restored and maintained as it was!
The workmanship is amazing. Truly fantastic. Gorgeous. This is one of the most beautiful old homes I’ve ever seen.
This tour has been the best I have seen! Congratulations on a fantastic restoration!
Oh, I really enjoyed this tour especially how each room was presented by a different person and unique personality. It was also nice to hear that the Vaile's were abolitionist so my heart can feel warm not only to the house but the people who made it, determined to do whats right even tho it was not popular. BTW, Shannon I love your style.
Beautiful! Thank you for posting. I live in the metro area and will have to come visit!
A beautiful and exquisitely furnished old home. Thank you for sharing.
what a beautiful building...
Wonderful Manson, and very personable volunteers, my brother lives on the same street
The home is just gorgeous!!! I would love to visit, and I hope the man is there, singing away!!!
What a spectacular tour, by outstanding docents! Learning about the property is expected of course, but learning little tidbits about the era, even better!
That was excellent. I enjoyed the tour very much.
Thank you for the tour! I love the green paint in the master bedroom. I painted my living room that color once. It was really pretty.
One of the very best vidio tours of historic homes. I especially enjoyed the flow of using several different people to present different areas of the home. Would love to tour.
This was wonderful! The different tour guides in each area made it just like a visit to this lovely place. Their pride and knowledge is apparent and they made it fun. This goes on my list of beautiful historic sites to see some day. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the presentation. A big thankyou to the volunteers.
Very glad that this beautiful home was saved, I'd love to visit there. Is it haunted? The period dresses were beautiful! Every room was spectacular. I'm a new subscriber, looking forward to your next video. 😊🌹🌹🌻
This is a beautiful home. It's a shame that so few people got to see the interior during the first 20 yrs of the house existence. Thank for this tour.
Great presentation of history and a beautiful home so glad it wasn't demolished
All of the presenters are just charming! I hope to make a trip across the state to tour this wonderful house! Thank you all so much for this video, especially the song at the end! ❤️
The mansion is extraordinarily beautiful ❤
This was entirely enjoyable. Thank you all.
Love this❤. Appreciate your sharing this beautiful restoration.
I had read so much about this.
I am glad to have found this upload.
Thank you.
I WILL be visiting.
Just gorgeous and so well presented❤.
A most gorgeous home! Nicely presented!!
What a gorgeous mansion!
To step back in time just once to see the beauty of the time and place... Thanks for the wonderful tour.
I absolutely love this show what a beautiful amazing home!
Thank you so much, I appreciated knowing that you have all worked so hard to keep this grand beauty fabulous!!
I enjoyed watching this very much.
Great video. Can see the enthusiasm in each presenter. Will visit someday!
Beautiful home xxx
I have seen Mrs. Vaile’s photo before! (I have friends I just saw last Sunday on the East coast for a wedding who are from Missouri! I can’t wait to ask them if they’ve been here! Poor woman...what a sad story for the Vaile couple.
Yes this story was so sad no children especially people acting jealous over their money. Poor Sophie must have felt lonely.
Everytime i was there! Going up stairs ALWAYS, gave me chills🤔😳
So u got the willys too!!!😶
What a beautiful home. Thank you. ❤
Just beautiful what a wonderful video, thank You .🙏
Thank you, everyone!
i found this lovely tour accidentally. what a joy 🥰
WOW!
One word BEAUTIFUL!
I love you old home!
Keep the good work!
I'm absolutely loving this.
Thank you very much for this wonderful introduction to this beautiful house .
It was a beautiful tour & the home is gorgeous. Thank you! ❤
I think you mean the regular folks were bathing in a round metal washtub while the Vails were bathing in their copper tubs. A basin would have been entirely too small to take a bath in. Our house was built in 1912 with no bathrooms and no running water in the kitchen so the Price family used a washtub brought into the kitchen, water heated on the wood stove and poured into the tub. This was the same system used by my grandparents in their home in Pulaski, Illinois, which had no indoor plumbing. Things have changed so much in the last 100 years.
The pink cushioned seat is NOT a "tet-ah-tay" It is a French word, "tête-à-tête". Tête is the French word for "head". Tête-à-tête translates literally as head-to-head but colloquially means face-to-face. Note that the chair has one person seated on one side while the second person is seated on the other allowing them to "put their heads together" to have a private conversation in comfort. Just sayin’, the docent might want to learn this term.
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Thank you for beating me to this! I wanted to cringe and shriek every time she said that.
And chandelier is pronounced “shan” with ch blend a soft sound like in shore or ship, not a hard ch like in chore or chew.
@@janh5199 I apparently missed that one, but how bizarre!
If you feel so inclined, please provide a phonetic spelling that an English speaker can use. I already knew from reading other sources how it is spelled, and that it is French, and that it literally means "head to head" and is used for face to face meetings as well as for that S shaped double chair - but I have never known how to pronounce it. I assume the speaker in the video was in the same position I am; knowing all about it except the pronunciation.
This is absolutely beautiful! This people are so humble and beautiful. Thanks for sharing this video with us? Amazing gorgeous!
This was wonderful! Thank you so much!
This is a beautiful home. Very impressive the way it has been restored.
Thank you, Lovely Presentations with such dedicated Docents and Volunteers!!!
Beautiful restoration and has to be one of the most beautiful exsisting Mansions of this type left in America. I bet this place is haunted as all get out though...
Yes, that house is haunted, and is a time capsule that hold ancient spirit.
@@dreamscott5913 I think the haunting is probably from the era of the Sanitarium !!!
Ive been here. And yea it is very haunted
One correction. The Estey organ was not from German origin. It was manufactured in Brattleboro, Vermont in the late 1800's. Many of the workers were immigrants from Germany, but the organ was made here in the U.S.
Fantastic preservation ... and equally fantastic Presentation. Beautifully done.
Excellent work on a landmark home...
Loved the tour!!
Thank you for this wonderful tour ❤️
Wow absolutely stunning and amazing so gorgeous!
What a great job you all do keeping this beautiful piece of History in great shape.
I hope I can come visit it someday.
Thank you for the tour I really enjoyed this video 🤓
OMG , I wish I could visit in person, especially at Christmas time .
This house is so beautiful. Thank you really enjoyed the video so well put together
Absolutely breathtaking 😍 ❤ thank you for sharing such a beautiful historic estate !!
Lovely presentation….👏👏
Absolutely stunning mansion!
In love with the copper tub
Would like to have seen the kitchen ..disappointed. Rest of the house, magnifique!
It’s beautiful & I love the furniture! I had many antiques but most were wrecked. I’m happy to have what I do have left. I loved watching this! I love the fabric of the curtains! Love paisley! ♥️