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Hiding on the back roads of Ashland County, Ohio are two abandoned properties about half a mile apart. The first one we visited was a new location, a motel that we believe closed in 2007. Our second stop was a Gothic Revival farmhouse built c. 1880 that I previously visited in December but it was a first for my friend. When we first pulled up to the motel, there was a large tractor sitting out front that was not there when I discovered it a week ago. I don't know where the driver was but nobody bothered us. There was also a small brick house with a gambrel roof near the motel that believed was where the caretaker once lived. We couldn't get inside but when we looked through the windows, it appeared someone was using it to store construction supplies as well as windows and doors.
1. The sign out front of the motel still claims a vacancy.
2. The motel sits back from the road on a circular driveway.
3. The walkway to the motel rooms had exterior windows on one side and the windows and doors of the individual rooms on the other.
4. A couple of rooms still had lamps hanging on the walls. In most others, they had been stolen or smashed on the floor.
5. This notice was on every door. I can only imagine what people were flushing that probably kept screwing up the plumbing.
6. This was typical of most of the rooms. Peeling wallpaper with a sink and mirror outside the bathroom in the rear.
7. On either side are two wings of motel rooms with the office in the center. This was once the front desk.
8. The doors to both wings of individual rooms were covered in newspaper that dated to 2007, hence our guess that the motel closed in 2007.
9. Each room contained typical tiny motel bathrooms with a bathtub/shower and a toilet. The vast majority of these were still intact.
10. Curtains in one of the rooms. Each room was decorated differently. Some had wallpaper and some were painted different colors. I don't think any two rooms had the same curtains.
11. Behind the front desk were the entrances to the basement and attic. The attic was up a set of steep steps with nothing exciting at the top. The basement was a little more entertaining.
12. Only the section under the front desk area was a full basement. Under the motel rooms were crawlspaces.
13. Downstairs were typical basement things like the furnace, water heaters, and a couple of fuse boxes. There was also this old sink.
14. At the intersection in front of the caretaker's house was an old light-up sign with an arrow pointing to the motel.
After we finished up at the motel, we got back in the car and drove about half a mile until we pulled up to the overgrown Gothic Revival farmhouse. The property contains a very convenient place to hide the car so we left it there. I could spend all day walking around this old house admiring the architecture. It was built sometime around 1880 by the same builder who built a similar house nearby that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of you may remember that I made a thread about this house when I first explored it seven months ago. It is owned by a local family who seems to be trying in vain to restore it. So far, all they have accomplished is painting one side and putting on a new roof. Inside, the place is a wreck with multiple holes in the floor, an unstable staircase, and old rotten furniture. But the architecture both inside and out is spectacular. I'm not sure how realistic it is, but I eventually want to live in a house like this. Preferably one that's not falling apart.
1. It's very hard to get good outside shots of the house in the summer when it is fairly obscured by trees.
2. This is the clearest picture I could get of the exterior architecture. This is the front of the house that faces the road.
3. The front door is boarded over by numerous small pieces of wood.
4. One of my favorite features of this house.
5. I also like these bay windows. There are three sets of them on the first floor.
6. In some places, entire doors have been used as window boarding.
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8. Front door from the inside.
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10. If this was my first time here, I would have guessed that this was the door removed from the open doorway. But it was not here back in December. My guess is it was used to a cover one of the windows.
11. Numerous people have scratched their names into the dining room walls. All of the graffiti I saw was fairly recent, most of it dating to 2014.
12. The spiral staircase, one of two staircases in the house. Three, if you count the basement.
13. The upstairs hallway is very narrow.
14. A nasty couch located in one of the bedrooms.
15. This is the second staircase. It is steep and creaks heavily when you walk on it.
16. At the end of the hallway is a room full of old rotten furniture including a box spring that it looks like somebody tried to pitch out the window.
17. Several rotting chairs as well as a couch and a couple of bed frames can also be found here.
18. Down in the basement was an old work bench with some rusty junk on it.
19. Tank in the corner.
20. More of the rusty workbench stuff.
21. The basement stairs.
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that house is awesome!
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I second you, CD! That house really NEEDS to be preserved as a horror movie location, I swear! 
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That house is definitely great. The only thing keeping it from being my all-time favorite (at least as far as houses go) is the lack of personal artifacts inside. Architecturally, it is by far and away the best I've been to. I believe it's also the oldest but there are a couple that I have no idea when they were built.
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Oh, that house is a real beauty!! You want to see one not dissimilar that IS full of personal artifacts, just come out here and see the building that contains the apartment I moved out of last winter 
(Sorry, sorry, not ACTUALLY abandoned just very neglected. I seriously considered taking a series of photos in it as if it was...)
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Oh, that house is a real beauty!! You want to see one not dissimilar that IS full of personal artifacts, just come out here and see the building that contains the apartment I moved out of last winter
(Sorry, sorry, not ACTUALLY abandoned just very neglected. I seriously considered taking a series of photos in it as if it was...)
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One of my favorite games to play when traveling rural roads is "abandoned or just neglected?" Some houses are so hard to tell.
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