So. iliamo1986 has posted twice about this house (recently http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=115232 and earlier http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0). She's taken some great photos and shared some interesting information about the place, both in these threads and in our private discussions. Though she's been in the house before (and before anyone pics or it didn't happens her she's described in great detail some specifics of the interior to me related to my own visits ) but doesn't have photos from that time. Here are mine from our visit in February this year.

This place is really gorgeous and I'm very appreciative for iliamo1986's lead; I'd seen photos of it prior to meeting her through the site and gone out looking for it once without luck. (I've just realized today, though, that I think it was HER pictures on Flickr that I saw!) We're hoping to meet up before summer is out and visit this grand old lady again together.

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And a bonus picture of how the conditions were all day:


I'm madly in love with this house, honestly. If I had large sums of money to dump into restoring it, I'd buy it and move here in a heartbeat. Also maybe if it wasn't haunted as balls probably. But that might only half stop me.

Thank you! I was hoping someone would go inside and I'd get to see the interior. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for posting these! I'm glad I was able to introduce you to this place. It is a real treasure and needs to be photographed as often as possible. I love that it's somewhat remote and that people driving by hardly look twice when they see visitors.

I was so anxious to see the photos of the upstairs, since I've never been brave enough to venture up there.

So the freezer was open?! Ewwwwww...maybe I'm dreaming but I swear someone told me that's where the man of the house, who's an avid hunter, left a crapload of venison. Nasty.

Seeing pictures of the bedroom with the frilly curtains, teddy bears and trophies made me even more sad about this house and the people who lived there, especially since I know who they are.

And now I want to go back inside REALLY SOOOOON.

Cool!! I really like #18. Thanks for sharing this.

I Love Victorians! 2 and 18 are exceptional photos. Great old home place!

Sorry to bring up an oldish thread but thanks for posting this, very intriguing!

wow 9 is a classic

I love Victorians; it's sad to see the inside such a dump.
I wonder if it can be saved.

#1 is beautiful; I like 16 and 18 as well.

Thanks all!

Tenebrae, I have wondered the same thing. Being in that place, you can still really get a sense for the kind of light and space the interior of that house had. It would have been a beautiful place to live and an easy house to love. Oh! I want to go back! It has kind of a scary history (some of which you can read in iliamo86's posts) with the family who owned (owns, actually, is my understanding) the place, as well as a homicide that took place on the grounds after it was deserted. The worst of the structural damage seemed, to my untrained eye, to be concentrated on a little room in the back (where the bed is) that might have been an addition to the original house. In my idle mental ramblings (I have no experience with this and no means to even think about it even if I did), I wondered if that couldn't just be removed and the wall closed up again.

Anyway. She's a charmer, and I'm glad y'all enjoy the photos

I'm looking at these photos again...#5 is an overturned Christmas tree with the skirt and garland still attached. Are those Santa ornaments I can see faintly on the right side of the picture?

Hmmm... Wall damage in 7 and 15 is easily repairable; the evidence of settling in #11 is more concerning (IMHO).

There were Santas everywhere. It was very weird. So many santas.

And... yeah, the mold up in the corners, I see that now. Honestly the floors up there, and the stairs to get there, all felt fine (granted, I'm fairly small). The cracks and stuff in the walls upstairs didn't look much notably worse than anything we patched and re-plastered in the 160+ year old house that my job moved into last winter which granted, yes, did need work, but structurally was (is) perfectly sound. Perfectly sound and has been a bookstore (heavy; I carried a lot of it around a bunch, it's heavy) for the past 35 years and is continuing to be under our curation.

Still though. *sigh* She's so pretty.

A whole lotta TLC and this lovely beauty can really become a home again.