I am old, but Woolworths made my childhood a fun time. Shopping for school clothes, eating at the lunch counter. Bumping into classmates in the store was fun as well. Especially the boy in your class that you had a crush on!
I grew up in a small Midwest town with a town center. The Rexall drug store was on one corner, the bank on another, the local department store on another and Woolworths made the fourth. As a kid, I went back and forth between the Rexall and Woolworth’s many times. No one can ever replicate the smell of the Woolworth store. I moved to Boston in the early 80s, which was a big jump for me as a young man. There was a 2-story Woolworth in Downtown Crossing, so when I got homesick or scared, I would go into Woolworth’s because it smelled exactly like my hometown store. I doubt anyone will ever say they miss shopping at Amazon!
@@notever8932thank you for sharing your memory & feelings. We moved from one side of my town to another in 1962 when I was 9. I missed my neighborhood, friends, school & original home so much. We had a long strip of stores about 5 blocks away. (Rexall & Bank were at each end as well). Between 2 grocery stores, a toy shop, a women’s shop, and a couple other shops was Woolworth’s. I could wander around in there by myself, losing track of time. It always made me feel at ease. I still live in the same area, but the shopping center hasn’t had one of the original stores in years; definitely annoying is that even the drug store is gone. My husband & I still reminisce about the original stores, trying to name them all. I’ll certainly not forget my times wandering about Woolworth’s.
My first job in the 70's was Woolworths after school and all day saturday.....I liked the girl behind the counter that cooked the meals in the restaurant she was older then me .....I was a good looking guy but she was to old for me...yet everyday after school I came in for work she was usually leaving but she made me milkshakes and burgers and hid them from the manager so I didnt pay for them........Renee was her name...Thanks renee wherever you are.
@@notever8932 That sounds just like the downtown area of the small Midwest town I grew up in, Kenosha Wi. I would gather all the money I made babysitting and head downtown, first stop being Woolworths.
Could be the Musks!! We, of course, had a Woolworth’s in Atlanta and it was the forerunner of “WallyWorld” … (Walmart). You could get virtually anything there and it was fun shopping. Tell an awful story from my childhood involving Woolworth’s. My mother had just a thin gold wedding band and I felt bad about that. So…. My very best friend and I went “shopping”. The one and only time in my life I was DISHONEST and have regretted it ever since. I was about ten or eleven and certainly knew better … BUT … I stole a “diamond” engagement and wedding ring set for my mother’s upcoming birthday. I got away with the theft and, after returning home, wrapped it carefully and happily presented it to my mother on her special day. I watched her open it with the anticipation of an excited child. She pretended (I’m sure) to love it and wore it religiously for a long time. I received an allowance so I suppose she thought I had saved my 75 cents a week. If I remember, it cost around 1$, maybe $1.50. Where can I send the money? NO INTEREST, PLEASE! Anyway, enjoyed seeing Mr. Woolworth’s mansion!
I might have Dementia but I won't forget the time and fun I had shopping at his stores and eating in the diner in the store, I would always eat a grilled cheese sandwich with potato chips and a dill pickle 😋. Those were the good Ole days and I really enjoyed those days and I am so sad 😞 that they had to shut down the stores and go out of business, that's for sure 😢 .I still think I have some of the merchandise that I purchased from the Woolworth store back in the day 😢!!!
@@nancicelenko3144 and in fairbanks alaska i had a coffee & burger at the lunch counter then bought a few clothes for the baby .. just a great place to shop.
I remember Woolworth’s on Market Street in downtown San Francisco in the 1960’s. Lunchtime was so busy, people would stand behind someone already eating at one of the circular counters, waiting for them to finish eating so that they could sit down. Even as a little girl, I thought it was funny and rude.
More on the sale: The buyer was a Long Island resident who made an all-cash offer, according to listing agent Margaret Trautmann of Compass. She said he has experience renovating large properties in the area and intends to live in the mansion after its makeover, but declined to further identify him.
I’m just thrilled to see someone has the time and funding to make it a home again. Hopefully a wonderful family will get to grow up enjoying the beauty surrounding them as well as appreciate and respect it! 🙏💞🙏
Thanks for the update! I had a first floor tour in the 70s when Pall Corp. owned it. Then in early 2000s my fiance & I stopped when we saw an older man raking leaves in the driveway and asked it we could walk around & take photos. He said OK, just don't go in the house. Afterward we thanked him & while chatting he gave his name: Martin Carey, brother of Gov. Hugh Carey. That's how he said it. He lived there! He even let me get of photo with him! ( I later sent him a thank you note). Turns out he also owned my favorite Newport, RI mansion, Seaview Terrace, which he leases to Salve Regina U as dorms! Small world! RIP Martin - looks like your home is again in good hands!
I'm from the UK and Woolworths was a big thing here too, loved shopping there, so glad such a beautiful place is being restored as I'm sure it is of cultural importance, so many of these places are lost forever and that's so sad.
Barbara Hutton the heiress to two fortunes died penniless and alone. Her story was made into a T.V. movie called "Poor Little Rich Girl." Given that the Top Floor of the mansion was comparatively plain, it was most likely the Servants quarters during Woolworth's time.
Wow, that mansion is amazing. Glad that they are restoring it once again. That Pipe organ was amazing to see as well. I'm sure it was a beautiful sounding instrument when it was fully functional.
From what I recall Walter Chrysler offered to buy it for around 200k. After 1929 and into the depression, If you had the cash these homes could be bought at bargain prices.
My father worked for a Woolworth store in Newark NJ. For 43 years He would go to the Woolworth building in New York every Thursday. I have also been inside the lobby of the Woolworth building. All of that ornate carving and sculpting you showed was all Mr Woolworth because it matches the ornateness of the lobby in the Woolworth building .
Great video. Thank you. Awhile ago I watched a mini serie about Barbara Hutton. At some point we can see Frank Woolworth playing pipe organ in his mansion. 😊
The console you saw is for the pipe organ and the carved panel,door you said was nothing, is for the large metal pipe hooked to the blower, probably down in the basement area which supplied vacuum power to the bellows and shutters for the pipe organ and was isolated as to not hear the motor running. The other "grille" work probably had pipes hidden behind them with shutters which opened and closed for appropriate volume. Another person said this was a player organ which would play with paper rolls but it doesn't appear that there is anywhere to put a roll in this console. Perhaps there was another console before this one which would have matched what he had written in his comment! BTW, PLAYER/REPRODUCER pianos mimicked EXACTLY what the pianist recorded for the paper roll with a ton of small, large bellows which controlled the loud pedal, soft pedal, crescendo etc. etc. etc. google Welte-Mignon reproducer piano at Carnegie hall where a huge portion of the audience (75%) didn't guess correctly if it was the Welte piano roll or the actual pianist behind the closed curtain playing. Fabulous home here!! OH, BTW, wasn't that DVD Saw 6,,(VI)and NOT SAW 4 (1V)?.?. ASKING for a friend!! LOL...
*Now that's what I call a "palace grade" mansion!* Generally only that level of opulence in European palaces. Amazing stuff. So glad it did not fall into neglect. Thanks also for the history of the home. It adds depth to the videos.
@@RangerRickTV Unlike many (from what I have seen, American) mansions, this one had the best craftsmen and designers that money could buy. Hence my 'palace grade' comment. It is style and class (even though I have no desire to live in such a thing). As another commenter said, approach the new owners, see if the 'after reno' would be possible.
Ahhhh yes Woolworth’s was a great store and you felt you had so much to choose from. I still have a flour sifter I bought at Woolworth’s decades ago? 🌺
I so miss woolworth stores in the UK they were a high street staple for years I allways in the 80s when i started earning some money went every friday on pay day to buy records singles and albums from the charts then later cds! ...sadly along with other well establish named retail stores in the uk they went bust too due to online shopping or as with many other stores the covid lock downs and never recovered!
Thank you for the tour! Yes beyond words - I’m so glad you appreciate the architecture, hard work and true beauty of the craftsmanship. Such fine materials! 😊
Woolworth also built a mansion in Scranton PA; that too was abandoned. Someone came along and saved it from being torn down; It has been breathtakingly renovated. Today it is an Airbnb, 8300 sq ft, 11 Bedrooms 33 beds. The address is 520 Jefferson Ave, Scranton, PA 18510
I remember as a child going to a town on vacation or visiting family and asking mom, “where’s the Woolworth store”? Every town had a Woolworth 5 & 10 cent store!
We had an F.W. Woolworth store in the town where I grew up in, in Ohio...us kids would go-to it with our spare change or allowance, all the time! Loved it!! It's since went out of business, particularly once the Big Malls started taking over!!
I can not believe how detailed and BEAUTIFUL it is and how it once looked furnished and lived in!! Unbelievable... thank you, wish we could have seen more of it and the clock building! Oh well very nice video!! One more note: Woolworth's 5 and dime store certainly paid off in a very BIG WAY for him!!!!
Woolworths was here in Canada too. I'm in British Columbia and there was one near me in the interior, in Kamloops. Sure have fond memories of going there with my folks when I was a kid.😊 Loved the lunch counter, also going downstairs to the pet department and see the pretty budgie birds. Oh yeah, and I remember the fun we had with the photo booth downstairs too. Always thought it was fascinating that the photos that came out of the slot in a strip, were developed so 'fast' in about several minutes or so.... My dear late Mom always got her favorite perfume there, called Ben Hur...and all for a whopping 10 cents! It smelled really nice, like vanilla and oak. Loved when Mom got all gussied up and wore that scent. Anyway, glad this historical treasure and landmark is being saved. So sad when they are gone forever. Have a happy, healthy 2025! You've got a new subber in me to your channel...Cheers! 🥰🇨🇦
I'm happy that I am able to still remember ☺️ ✨️ the time I had back when I was young ,now I'm sixty years old and I have most of my memories before I loose my memories of of those days!!
its the best i have seen, the details are magnificent. just gorgeous, you live in that mansion i'm sure you will feel like a king or queen in paradise, the list goes on
The Woolworth Building in NYC began construction in 1910! The building was completed in 1912! It opened April 24, 1913! At 792 feet the building was the tallest building in New York and the world from 1913 to 1929.!! 😱
This just goes to show you that back in the day Rich super rich people did not pay any taxes so they could afford to build these huge homes that eventually no one could live in anymore for the pure fact of it just being too expensive to run to run a house like that you would need to be a millionaire
The Pipe Organ you saw looks like just the console of the instrument. It seems to be the remnant of a very expensive Aeolian player pipe organ. These very expensive instruments actually sold well for a while as it was a toy that just about all the newly rich in the United States wanted. This organ played by paper rolls very similar to a player piano but frequently a professional organist was hired to play certain occasions. Frank Woolworth went a bit mad at the end of his life and operated this organ at all hours. He used to sit at while the automation played and fantasize he was an actual musician and frequently his granddaughter Barbara had to sit next to him. Organists are indifferent to these instruments as they were designed, honestly, for the musically ignorant. A fair of these costly behemoths survive and a good number of the survivors have been restored.
I’m trying to figure out why you are saying it’s ridiculous and crazy. I, sincerely hope someone buys this beautiful home from the past and keeps it up. It’s a wonderful home!
The ornate door you opened about 10:30 minutes in, was the door to the organ pipes. It’s not clear from the video where the organ console in relation to the pipes. I’m not an expert. Thanks for the video. I had never heard of this mansion.
It looks like the wind chest to me. I saw something similar when I toured the Biltmore. To the right of the ladder in your video you can see the duct from the electric blower in the basement.
Woolworth also had a mansion in South Monmouth, Maine. It's huge but not as opulent as this mansion. We lived near it when I was young and our parents would bring us to see the horses.
In the 80's, the Minnesota company I worked for, sold products manufactured in Glen Cove by a NY company. They leased the mansion for a couple years, did some repairs to the place, but also used it for a training location for their sales people. I was fortunate to to have been there twice.
From the book Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous by Rollin Smith (2014) “The largest and most elaborate room boasted a ‘$100,000’ Aeolian organ, the four-manual, seventy-six rank, Opus 1410. The carved lacework grilles of this music room concealed an alcove from which a private detective spied on the guests.”
Grew up on long island and didn't know about this mansion. I have been to the Vanderbilt museum out in Suffolk County. So much wealth out on the island. Beautiful. Glad some of it is rescued and restored. You should visit the Hearst castle in San Simeon California. If you like architecture and imported things from all over the world. William Randolph Hearst had it built I think.
It goes to show no matter the power or the riches one could possibly gather on one’s life time it all has to be returned to whom it has always belonged to and had only allowed one to barrow to allow one to prove how worthy one was to even have been able to think it was his not the true creator . And see how many had suffered while one was drunk in his collection of greatness he was allowed to barrow for only a short time .
When I was about 17 I worked at Woolworth diner in downtown Denver, Colorado so crazy. It was so amazing because it was a store that had a restaurant a little like cafeteria. It was so cool.❤
I worked at William Crow Jewelry near Woolworth in Denver in the 70's and shopped there. When they started turning that area into a mall the sad thing was that many unique stores were closed down.
Such a stupid clickbait title. This home was never “abandoned”. There are people WORKING TO RESTORE IT in your vid. The whole bit of acting like you’re sneaking around, when you clearly had permission to be there made me not finish the vid.
The instrument you weren't able to recognize is a pipe organ, at the time of the house's construction it was considered the latest in-home entertainment, many homes of that period had their own organs, a status symbol and example of one's extravagance and wealth.
I've heard that there is a secret tunnel that leads to the beach behind the mansion. I have never seen it but hear it exists. The story is that Mr. Woolworth had it built so he didn't have to run into his neighbors when going to the beach. In the ball room there is a organ behind the wall there and was used for parties. There is a lot of detail in the mansion and if you look at the wood framing around the windows in the ball room, some of the cherubs have mustaches. I was told by the prior owner that Mr. Woolworth had a sense of humor and those cherubs depicted him.
Lived in Far Rockaway, NY from the time I was a baby until 18 years old. Went to town (as we called it) with my mom and then friends after school on the weekdays & also weekends. In town always shopped at F.W. Woolworths & ate at their lunch counter. Great store & miss those times in the 60's. Also, had a Grant's Dept. Store that we shopped at, Gino's Pizzeria, Popular Cotton(womens wear), Cushman's Bakery, 3 movie theaters(The RKO Strand, Columbia, and the Pix). Good memories if going to those theaters. Had a Mortens Army Store, Drug Store Pharmacy (started Wal ....? (cannot remember full name). Eppy's for womens wear, Great Deli, Bowling Alley, 2 car dealerships(Chevy & Pontiac). Safe area day & night. Walked to the beaches (So many bungalows rented for the summers), so many great stores (cannot name them all) in our town of Far Rockaway, NY. Again, so many great memories of growing up there. Unfortunately, our town started to go down hill around early 70's. Moved to Rockaway Park from 1968-1974 & shopped the stores on 116th Street, and enjoyed the boardwalk & ocean, took the subway line from 116th street to Manhattan for work. The Rockaways since living there have gone down hill because of NYC bringing in the elements that destroyed once a great place to be born & raised in. That was because of NYC Mayor John Lindsay in office. Miss those great days growing up & living in Far Rockaway & Rockaway Park. Miss Woolworths, Grant's stores & the rest of the stores while growing up in Far Rockaway. Left Rockaway Park in 1974, moved to L.I. Enough said. 😊😢
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@9:50 a pipe organ, they had to be "pumped" before any sound would come out., usually featured in vincent price macaber movies
I am old, but Woolworths made my childhood a fun time. Shopping for school clothes, eating at the lunch counter. Bumping into classmates in the store was fun as well. Especially the boy in your class that you had a crush on!
I grew up in a small Midwest town with a town center. The Rexall drug store was on one corner, the bank on another, the local department store on another and Woolworths made the fourth. As a kid, I went back and forth between the Rexall and Woolworth’s many times. No one can ever replicate the smell of the Woolworth store. I moved to Boston in the early 80s, which was a big jump for me as a young man. There was a 2-story Woolworth in Downtown Crossing, so when I got homesick or scared, I would go into Woolworth’s because it smelled exactly like my hometown store. I doubt anyone will ever say they miss shopping at Amazon!
@@notever8932thank you for sharing your memory & feelings. We moved from one side of my town to another in 1962 when I was 9. I missed my neighborhood, friends, school & original home so much. We had a long strip of stores about 5 blocks away. (Rexall & Bank were at each end as well). Between 2 grocery stores, a toy shop, a women’s shop, and a couple other shops was Woolworth’s. I could wander around in there by myself, losing track of time. It always made me feel at ease. I still live in the same area, but the shopping center hasn’t had one of the original stores in years; definitely annoying is that even the drug store is gone. My husband & I still reminisce about the original stores, trying to name them all. I’ll certainly not forget my times wandering about Woolworth’s.
My first job in the 70's was Woolworths after school and all day saturday.....I liked the girl behind the counter that cooked the meals in the restaurant she was older then me .....I was a good looking guy but she was to old for me...yet everyday after school I came in for work she was usually leaving but she made me milkshakes and burgers and hid them from the manager so I didnt pay for them........Renee was her name...Thanks renee wherever you are.
@@notever8932 That sounds just like the downtown area of the small Midwest town I grew up in, Kenosha Wi. I would gather all the money I made babysitting and head downtown, first stop being Woolworths.
90 m usd and no land ,lol have ppl so close hear them fart. useless.
I am so happy someone saved it and restored it. What a living beauty 😳
I'm not seeing anything about it being restored.
Please tell me the Musk Family are not the new owner's.
Could be the Musks!! We, of course, had a Woolworth’s in Atlanta and it was the forerunner of “WallyWorld” … (Walmart). You could get virtually anything there and it was fun shopping. Tell an awful story from my childhood involving Woolworth’s. My mother had just a thin gold wedding band and I felt bad about that. So…. My very best friend and I went “shopping”. The one and only time in my life I was DISHONEST and have regretted it ever since. I was about ten or eleven and certainly knew better … BUT … I stole a “diamond” engagement and wedding ring set for my mother’s upcoming birthday. I got away with the theft and, after returning home, wrapped it carefully and happily presented it to my mother on her special day. I watched her open it with the anticipation of an excited child. She pretended (I’m sure) to love it and wore it religiously for a long time. I received an allowance so I suppose she thought I had saved my 75 cents a week. If I remember, it cost around 1$, maybe $1.50. Where can I send the money? NO INTEREST, PLEASE! Anyway, enjoyed seeing Mr. Woolworth’s mansion!
The whispering is annoying!
I might have Dementia but I won't forget the time and fun I had shopping at his stores and eating in the diner in the store, I would always eat a grilled cheese sandwich with potato chips and a dill pickle 😋. Those were the good Ole days and I really enjoyed those days and I am so sad 😞 that they had to shut down the stores and go out of business, that's for sure 😢 .I still think I have some of the merchandise that I purchased from the Woolworth store back in the day 😢!!!
a sandwich a pop and chips all for 20 cents. yes!
Tonight, I was reminiscing with my in-laws about shopping and eating at Woolworth’s!! Great memories! ❤
@@nancicelenko3144 and in fairbanks alaska i had a coffee & burger at the lunch counter then bought a few clothes for the baby .. just a great place to shop.
I remember Woolworth’s on Market Street in downtown San Francisco in the 1960’s. Lunchtime was so busy, people would stand behind someone already eating at one of the circular counters, waiting for them to finish eating so that they could sit down. Even as a little girl, I thought it was funny and rude.
@@janetheard4357 i had my first nickle coke at the counter w my grmama..
Worked the food counter at Woolworth in high school. Loved this store growing up
More on the sale: The buyer was a Long Island resident who made an all-cash offer, according to listing agent Margaret Trautmann of Compass. She said he has experience renovating large properties in the area and intends to live in the mansion after its makeover, but declined to further identify him.
You are correct!😊
I’m just thrilled to see someone has the time and funding to make it a home again. Hopefully a wonderful family will get to grow up enjoying the beauty surrounding them as well as appreciate and respect it!
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@@sandrabosley8616 I would love to see what it looks like now. When it filmed it, it was many years ago.
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It would be nice to see it now.
Any chance you would contact the owner and ask if you could film the “after” renovations? 😉
Would love to see the after renovations.
Thanks for the update! I had a first floor tour in the 70s when Pall Corp. owned it. Then in early 2000s my fiance & I stopped when we saw an older man raking leaves in the driveway and asked it we could walk around & take photos. He said OK, just don't go in the house. Afterward we thanked him & while chatting he gave his name: Martin Carey, brother of Gov. Hugh Carey. That's how he said it. He lived there! He even let me get of photo with him! ( I later sent him a thank you note). Turns out he also owned my favorite Newport, RI mansion, Seaview Terrace, which he leases to Salve Regina U as dorms! Small world! RIP Martin - looks like your home is again in good hands!
Don't care about taylor swift. Just want to see the mansion.
This place must have looked like royal palace when Mr Woolworth lived there. I hope the new owner brings it back to its full glory.
There were still Woolworths when I was a kid....I loved the 5 & Dime....so sad none of them exist any longer
I really miss going to Woolworths w/my Gran & then sitting at the lunch counter to have a bite, a sundae, a Chocolate malt or soda pop ❤😢👍🏻😎🙏🏻
At least they are not knocking it down like so many other places in this country.
Extremely gorgeous architecture
Thank for taking a chance to film the Woolworth Mansion. I lived on Long Island never got see it.👍🏻🙂
Beautiful home. I'm happy to see vandals didn't find that place and destroy it.
It's a beauty!
Loved shopping at the Woolworth stores. Great memories!
Me too!
We had tons of stores in Chicago. Hard to believe they have been gone for almost 30 years.
@@cocoaorange1 That’s where I shopped! Mt. Greenwood one and then Loop State Street store. The good old days!
who doesn t remember going to woolworth?! beautiful house!
I'm from the UK and Woolworths was a big thing here too, loved shopping there, so glad such a beautiful place is being restored as I'm sure it is of cultural importance, so many of these places are lost forever and that's so sad.
Barbara Hutton the heiress to two fortunes died penniless and alone. Her story was made into a T.V. movie called "Poor Little Rich Girl."
Given that the Top Floor of the mansion was comparatively plain, it was most likely the Servants quarters during Woolworth's time.
She was the original " million dollar baby in a five and ten cent store" or so the story goes...
Wow, that mansion is amazing. Glad that they are restoring it once again.
That Pipe organ was amazing to see as well. I'm sure it was a beautiful sounding instrument when it was fully functional.
It's one of my favorite mansions. !
That was probably a family chapel, where the family could have church services in the home.
I adored Woolworths as a kid here in LINY. Such a fun place. So many memories! - I am so happy it will be fully restored! Wonder who?
From what I recall Walter Chrysler offered to buy it for around 200k. After 1929 and into the depression, If you had the cash these homes could be bought at bargain prices.
My father worked for a Woolworth store in Newark NJ. For 43 years He would go to the Woolworth building in New York every Thursday. I have also been inside the lobby of the Woolworth building. All of that ornate carving and sculpting you showed was all Mr Woolworth because it matches the ornateness of the lobby in the Woolworth building .
Alway thrilled to hear that a wonderful old building(s) is getting a new life 😍😍🤩🤩 Gorgeous mansion
It would be a dream to explore here! Absolutely stunning!
Wow, that is so magnificent, thanks for taking us on its tour!
Great video. Thank you. Awhile ago I watched a mini serie about Barbara Hutton. At some point we can see Frank Woolworth playing pipe organ in his mansion. 😊
The console you saw is for the pipe organ and the carved panel,door you said was nothing, is for the large metal pipe hooked to the blower, probably down in the basement area which supplied vacuum power to the bellows and shutters for the pipe organ and was isolated as to not hear the motor running. The other "grille" work probably had pipes hidden behind them with shutters which opened and closed for appropriate volume. Another person said this was a player organ which would play with paper rolls but it doesn't appear that there is anywhere to put a roll in this console. Perhaps there was another console before this one which would have matched what he had written in his comment! BTW, PLAYER/REPRODUCER pianos mimicked EXACTLY what the pianist recorded for the paper roll with a ton of small, large bellows which controlled the loud pedal, soft pedal, crescendo etc. etc. etc. google Welte-Mignon reproducer piano at Carnegie hall where a huge portion of the audience (75%) didn't guess correctly if it was the Welte piano roll or the actual pianist behind the closed curtain playing. Fabulous home here!! OH, BTW, wasn't that DVD Saw 6,,(VI)and NOT SAW 4 (1V)?.?.
ASKING for a friend!! LOL...
Amazingly interesting info thank you🌸
*Now that's what I call a "palace grade" mansion!*
Generally only that level of opulence in European palaces. Amazing stuff. So glad it did not fall into neglect.
Thanks also for the history of the home. It adds depth to the videos.
A true American masterpiece!
@@RangerRickTV Unlike many (from what I have seen, American) mansions, this one had the best craftsmen and designers that money could buy. Hence my 'palace grade' comment. It is style and class (even though I have no desire to live in such a thing).
As another commenter said, approach the new owners, see if the 'after reno' would be possible.
Ahhhh yes Woolworth’s was a great store and you felt you had so much to choose from. I still have a flour sifter I bought at Woolworth’s decades ago? 🌺
Thank you for the tour that place is awesome. I hope the new owners enjoy it and they keep all the furniture. 😊
I hope so!
In another video I saw. Apparently the furniture was supposedly sold
@@GregB419 I wish I could have seen most of it.
I so miss woolworth stores in the UK they were a high street staple for years I allways in the 80s when i started earning some money went every friday on pay day to buy records singles and albums from the charts then later cds! ...sadly along with other well establish named retail stores in the uk they went bust too due to online shopping or as with many other stores the covid lock downs and never recovered!
Thank you for the tour! Yes beyond words - I’m so glad you appreciate the architecture, hard work and true beauty of the craftsmanship. Such fine materials! 😊
Woolworth also built a mansion in Scranton PA; that too was abandoned. Someone came along and saved it from being torn down; It has been breathtakingly renovated. Today it is an Airbnb, 8300 sq ft, 11 Bedrooms 33 beds. The address is 520 Jefferson Ave, Scranton, PA 18510
Awesome to hear!😊
Beauty and wealth in its fullness. Amazing. I hope that they repair the house to its original state and don't destroy it's beauty.
I remember as a child going to a town on vacation or visiting family and asking mom, “where’s the Woolworth store”? Every town had a Woolworth 5 & 10 cent store!
We had an F.W. Woolworth store in the town where I grew up in, in Ohio...us kids would go-to it with our spare change or allowance, all the time! Loved it!! It's since went out of business, particularly once the Big Malls started taking over!!
I can not believe how detailed and BEAUTIFUL it is and how it once looked furnished and lived in!! Unbelievable... thank you, wish we could have seen more of it and the clock building! Oh well very nice video!! One more note: Woolworth's 5 and dime store certainly paid off in a very BIG WAY for him!!!!
Woolworths was here in Canada too. I'm in British Columbia and there was one near me in the interior, in Kamloops. Sure have fond memories of going there with my folks when I was a kid.😊 Loved the lunch counter, also going downstairs to the pet department and see the pretty budgie birds. Oh yeah, and I remember the fun we had with the photo booth downstairs too. Always thought it was fascinating that the photos that came out of the slot in a strip, were developed so 'fast' in about several minutes or so.... My dear late Mom always got her favorite perfume there, called Ben Hur...and all for a whopping 10 cents! It smelled really nice, like vanilla and oak. Loved when Mom got all gussied up and wore that scent. Anyway, glad this historical treasure and landmark is being saved. So sad when they are gone forever. Have a happy, healthy 2025! You've got a new subber in me to your channel...Cheers! 🥰🇨🇦
I'm happy that I am able to still remember ☺️ ✨️ the time I had back when I was young ,now I'm sixty years old and I have most of my memories before I loose my memories of of those days!!
This needs to be a museum or hotel…..
How about a beautifully maintained home!!🤔
@@butlercreek4583because then no one can visit it and actually see the true beauty for themselves
So, what did you see in the basement that was astonishing that you couldn’t get recorded?
Look at all the detail in the walls and the ceilings and everywhere, lovely table it looks like its worth a lot, thanks for the explore enjoyed 👍
I thoroughly enjoyed it and thank you for watching tiger.
its the best i have seen, the details are magnificent. just gorgeous, you live in that mansion i'm sure you will feel like a king or queen in paradise, the list goes on
The Woolworth Building in NYC began construction in 1910! The building was completed in 1912! It opened April 24, 1913! At 792 feet the building was the tallest building in New York and the world from 1913 to 1929.!! 😱
Mom always took us to Woolworths to buy our Halloween costumes, and would get a bite at the food counter. 😢
WOW!! New Sub. How were you able even to set foot on this amazing property? Thank you!
Beautiful Archetchial design!!!
I used to love going into Woolworths when i was younger, they had the best frozen custard
This just goes to show you that back in the day Rich super rich people did not pay any taxes so they could afford to build these huge homes that eventually no one could live in anymore for the pure fact of it just being too expensive to run to run a house like that you would need to be a millionaire
The super wealthy actually paid insane income tax back in the day. Look up the 90% tax.
This mansion is the most beautiful mansion I have ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of them! Gorgeous! Absolutely stunning! ❤ thank you for bringing it !
I remember the actual waffles with the square of Neapolitan ice cream in the middle from Woolworth. Yum!
Their doughnuts were the world's greatest.
Thanks!
Amazing! So happy they are keeping this place up!
Glad it’s not in decay. Storing old relics of the place while restoring.😮 it’s really beautiful! I wonder who owns it now??
8,000,000!🤦🏻♀️ Congratulations ! I want to know who please??
The Pipe Organ you saw looks like just the console of the instrument. It seems to be the remnant of a very expensive Aeolian player pipe organ. These very expensive instruments actually sold well for a while as it was a toy that just about all the newly rich in the United States wanted. This organ played by paper rolls very similar to a player piano but frequently a professional organist was hired to play certain occasions. Frank Woolworth went a bit mad at the end of his life and operated this organ at all hours. He used to sit at while the automation played and fantasize he was an actual musician and frequently his granddaughter Barbara had to sit next to him. Organists are indifferent to these instruments as they were designed, honestly, for the musically ignorant. A fair of these costly behemoths survive and a good number of the survivors have been restored.
Right on! Great job!
I’m trying to figure out why you are saying it’s ridiculous and crazy. I, sincerely hope someone buys this beautiful home from the past and keeps it up. It’s a wonderful home!
The ornate door you opened about 10:30 minutes in, was the door to the organ pipes. It’s not clear from the video where the organ console in relation to the pipes. I’m not an expert. Thanks for the video. I had never heard of this mansion.
i.e. pipe chamber.....
It looks like the wind chest to me. I saw something similar when I toured the Biltmore. To the right of the ladder in your video you can see the duct from the electric blower in the basement.
Even if you could afford the mansion, you would never afford the New York taxes!
Woolworth also had a mansion in South Monmouth, Maine. It's huge but not as opulent as this mansion. We lived near it when I was young and our parents would bring us to see the horses.
Thank you from the UK The store is sorely missed here
The third floor would have definitely been the servants quarters during Woolworth's time.
I have a lot of happy memories from Woolies as well called it .
Hi Rick!❤ I truly enjoyed this video, even though we didn’t get to go into all the rooms what we did get to see was spectacular so thank you
I loved it!
I was a stock boy for woolworths on 43rd street and 14th Avenue in Brooklyn. I dated one of the register girls named Linda.
Definitely "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" at least I too own that faded book of Waterford (on the mantle). 💰
Indeed you are correct 💯
That what amazing. Wish you could have went through all of the building. Thanks
$8 million is not a bargain....the cost to fix and taxes will jack that fee up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do not see that type of craftsmanship anymore.
I remember when I used to shopping in Woolworth and I even ate the diner in the store, but it's so sad 😞 that they closed the stores down 😢
Yes. Them and G. C. MURPHYS.
Sad they not still around.
Why was 00:54 second mark blurred from building
What was that for?
oh lucky # 6 to like and lucky number 3 to comment. Wow gilded age anything is some of my favorite stuff and this place is just full of it. Thanks
Yes!
I have seen some pretty impressive mansions but none like this. WOW!
In the 80's, the Minnesota company I worked for, sold products manufactured in Glen Cove by a NY company. They leased the mansion for a couple years, did some repairs to the place, but also used it for a training location for their sales people. I was fortunate to to have been there twice.
Breathtaking!
This was the house in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock movie North By Northwest with Cary Grant.
From the book Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous by Rollin Smith (2014) “The largest and most elaborate room boasted a ‘$100,000’ Aeolian organ, the four-manual, seventy-six rank, Opus 1410. The carved lacework grilles of this music room concealed an alcove from which a private detective spied on the guests.”
A stunning place and it dwarfs all the other mansions in the area, though a bit cold for me in the winter time.
Grew up on long island and didn't know about this mansion. I have been to the Vanderbilt museum out in Suffolk County. So much wealth out on the island. Beautiful. Glad some of it is rescued and restored. You should visit the Hearst castle in San Simeon California. If you like architecture and imported things from all over the world. William Randolph Hearst had it built I think.
NYS should Make it a Museum if it is ever abandoned!
I could care less about swift!
Just want to see this gorgeous house!! 😊
I totally agree!
Agree 400% .... NO T.S. Needed.
I remember well shopping at Woolworth's when I was young. Shame this is abandoned!
Good Ol Woolworth ❤ It When I Was Growing Up Brunswick Ohio And Ate At The One In Phoenix Arizona. 😊
Memories, memories!
At least its not Wasted Architecture! Especially when there's so much history attached to it!👍
It goes to show no matter the power or the riches one could possibly gather on one’s life time it all has to be returned to whom it has always belonged to and had only allowed one to barrow to allow one to prove how worthy one was to even have been able to think it was his not the true creator . And see how many had suffered while one was drunk in his collection of greatness he was allowed to barrow for only a short time .
❤❤❤❤❤ so much craftsmanship went into this that they're artwork 😍! #tradesmen built these!
When I was about 17 I worked at Woolworth diner in downtown Denver, Colorado so crazy. It was so amazing because it was a store that had a restaurant a little like cafeteria. It was so cool.❤
I worked at William Crow Jewelry near Woolworth in Denver in the 70's and shopped there. When they started turning that area into a mall the sad thing was that many unique stores were closed down.
Such a stupid clickbait title. This home was never “abandoned”. There are people WORKING TO RESTORE IT in your vid. The whole bit of acting like you’re sneaking around, when you clearly had permission to be there made me not finish the vid.
What? Only 8 million? They definitely stole this property. 😆
The frozen custard at Woolworth's was great. Always had for dessert after lunch at Woolworth's. ❤😊
That light in the tower building is STUNNING.
Crazy huh?
Absolutely stunning
After my doctors appointment mom and me would stop and I would get a cherry episode and German chocolate cake.yum
as the inspector falls into a living room, crashing into a piano, "That was a famous Steinway! " ..... "Not anymore"
The instrument you weren't able to recognize is a pipe organ, at the time of the house's construction it was considered the latest in-home entertainment, many homes of that period had their own organs, a status symbol and example of one's extravagance and wealth.
Beautiful!
Also I bet the outside Surroundings and Gardens must have been magnificent in its "hayday?"
The place is astounding. Get some batteries in those beeping smoke detectors for cripes sake. Lol!
I've heard that there is a secret tunnel that leads to the beach behind the mansion. I have never seen it but hear it exists. The story is that Mr. Woolworth had it built so he didn't have to run into his neighbors when going to the beach. In the ball room there is a organ behind the wall there and was used for parties. There is a lot of detail in the mansion and if you look at the wood framing around the windows in the ball room, some of the cherubs have mustaches. I was told by the prior owner that Mr. Woolworth had a sense of humor and those cherubs depicted him.
Lived in Far Rockaway, NY from the time I was a baby until 18 years old. Went to town (as we called it) with my mom and then friends after school on the weekdays & also weekends. In town always shopped at F.W. Woolworths & ate at their lunch counter. Great store & miss those times in the 60's. Also, had a Grant's Dept. Store that we shopped at, Gino's Pizzeria, Popular Cotton(womens wear), Cushman's Bakery, 3 movie theaters(The RKO Strand, Columbia, and the Pix). Good memories if going to those theaters. Had a Mortens Army Store, Drug Store Pharmacy (started Wal ....? (cannot remember full name). Eppy's for womens wear, Great Deli, Bowling Alley, 2 car dealerships(Chevy & Pontiac). Safe area day & night. Walked to the beaches (So many bungalows rented for the summers), so many great stores (cannot name them all) in our town of Far Rockaway, NY. Again, so many great memories of growing up there. Unfortunately, our town started to go down hill around early 70's. Moved to Rockaway Park from 1968-1974 & shopped the stores on 116th Street, and enjoyed the boardwalk & ocean, took the subway line from 116th street to Manhattan for work. The Rockaways since living there have gone down hill because of NYC bringing in the elements that destroyed once a great place to be born & raised in. That was because of NYC Mayor John Lindsay in office. Miss those great days growing up & living in Far Rockaway & Rockaway Park. Miss Woolworths, Grant's stores & the rest of the stores while growing up in Far Rockaway. Left Rockaway Park in 1974, moved to L.I. Enough said. 😊😢