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butrphly
   
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< on 6/21/2010 8:53 PM >
|  | | | Interesting weekend for me.. So I was driving along a middle of no where road and I looked to my right and almost sh**. It was a huge gorgeous mansion that did not look inhabited! I probably drove by six times and ran over a groundhog when I noticed a truck in the drive and man walking the grounds! I finally decided to make the stop...
I pulled into the long drive and the man was now parked down by the mansion. I was parked a little bit away. I left all my photography gear in the car and slowly walked toward the man. As I gently approached I said excuse and told him my story and after a few minutes of me begging and explaining myself he let me in.
As I walked through the grand double doors, I was taken aback by both the beauty of the home and the fact that there was a HUGE rifle sitting next to the door. I pretended not to see it, but in my head I was thinking I am f'd. This man is going to hurt me. So Im taking pictures, shaking my ass off with the thoughts that I could end up like Hannibal Lector's lunch.. the man proceeded to ask me the same questions over and over(guessing he wanted to make sure I wasn't lying). So, we walked around the whole house.. let me tell you that there were rifles by pretty much every single door. These guys obviously don't want visitors. I feel both lucky that I had the opportunity to view this place and get a few ok pics but also that I made it out of their alive. As a female it is quite scary going alone!
So.. with that said here are a few of the pics.. like I said.. not the greatest because I couldnt set up my tripod with someone up my ass and rifles all over..
Enjoy
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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Send4Help
  
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A biology lab far, far away...
Gender: Male
No time for the old in-out, love.
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<Reply # 1 on 6/21/2010 9:02 PM >
| | | | This is in NEPA correct?
The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. |
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 2 on 6/21/2010 9:05 PM >
| | | | You are correct.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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Livingstone
Gender: Male
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 3 on 6/21/2010 9:05 PM >
| | | | Quite the find, looks pretty clean, nice pics. Know any of the history? So who was the dude, caretaker? squatter?
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 4 on 6/21/2010 9:06 PM >
| | | | Are you from NEPA?
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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Livingstone
Gender: Male
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 5 on 6/21/2010 9:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by butrphly
Are you from NEPA?
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Who? Me? nah, SEPA years ago
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 6 on 6/21/2010 9:09 PM >
| | | | I believe he was the current owner. He did not tell me too much about him. I know he was from California and I read that the current owners are also from there. I do know a little of the history.. It belonged to the Kehoe family, a prominent family in NEPA during the coal mining era. After that it became a bed and breakfast and those owners did not take care of it. It was a great find and a real gem. It is immaculate.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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don_corleyone
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F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 7 on 6/21/2010 9:51 PM >
| | | | i played "find the rifle", but could not. I CALL SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS, MA'AM!
leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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ban256
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<Reply # 8 on 6/21/2010 10:03 PM >
| | | | Wish you got more of that dumbwaiter 
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macgruder
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Northern NJ
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 9 on 6/21/2010 10:06 PM >
| | | | Not a single rifle anywhere.
gorgeous location though, very cool that he let you inside.
Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 50mm 1.2, Canon 28mm 1.8, Canon 16-35 f2.8L
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Send4Help
location:
A biology lab far, far away...
Gender: Male
No time for the old in-out, love.
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 10 on 6/21/2010 10:41 PM >
| | | | I am from NEPA, but spend most of my time living in Philly.
That place was abandoned for several years though. There are a few other members that grew up near there that would know more about it.
The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. |
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xRawrcoonx
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Metro North, MA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 11 on 6/21/2010 10:41 PM >
| | | | Amazing find and great pictures.
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 12 on 6/21/2010 10:49 PM >
| | | | I was not about to take a picture of the rifles. If it even looked like he was going to be in the picture he freaked on me.. started waving his arms around and yelling..
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 13 on 6/21/2010 10:52 PM >
| | | | I grew up in NEPA and moved to the Philly area when I was 18..
I never heard of or saw this place until Saturday.
Thank you all for the comments!
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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jukebox fuckup
location:
killadelphia
Gender: Female
| | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 14 on 6/21/2010 11:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by butrphly
It belonged to the Kehoe family, a prominent family in NEPA during the coal mining era. After that it became a bed and breakfast and those owners did not take care of it. It was a great find and a real gem. It is immaculate.
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hahah! As soon as I saw NEPA, I thought "coal barons"
“Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite." |
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consecrated
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 15 on 6/22/2010 11:30 AM >
| | | | Great find.
Just out of curiosity, what was the story you gave him? I assume he'd question the legitimacy of "I'm going to post these online" but then again some people really don't care. I try to go with "it's just a hobby of mine" which is absolutely true, but some people just don't by it because they don't understand it. They think I must be doing something else with the photos.
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butrphly
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 16 on 6/22/2010 1:22 PM >
| | | | I am a manager of photography company so I gave him my card. I told him what I do for work and that this is my hobby and that I am working on a project. Without the card I don't think he would have let me in.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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consecrated
location:
Connecticut
Gender: Male
Æthereal
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 17 on 6/22/2010 1:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by butrphly
I am a manager of photography company so I gave him my card. I told him what I do for work and that this is my hobby and that I am working on a project. Without the card I don't think he would have let me in.
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That works. That's a good idea for anyone actually. It provides some legitimacy to your motives, and providing a name (fake or not) gives many people a warm and fuzzy.
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zero5four
location:
Southwest Florida
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 18 on 6/22/2010 3:40 PM >
| | | | amazing find. Love the stained glass window.
gotta get in, before its gone forever |
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mascarah
location:
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Mansions and Rifles
<Reply # 19 on 6/22/2010 6:51 PM >
| | | | Some history on the house in question:
Rosen’s appraisal valued the property at $701,000, and he presented pictures showing the need for extensive interior repairs. Rosen estimated it will cost about $1 million to repair and renovate the interior.
The three-story, 9,200-square-foot home was built in 1925 by coal baron and political leader John C. Kehoe.
The Kehoe forces ran the city for decades, amidst constant allegations of corruption and cronyism. Ruling from his wheelchair at the family estate, the political dictator was a major force in elections for Governor, Luzerne County and Pittston City Hall, and the city school board also. One reason for disdain of Kehoe was that he owned the Pittston Sunday Dispatch, where in a weekly column, As Kehoe Knows It, he cursed enemies and heaped praise on his few friends and himself as well. The annual Kehoe post-Labor Day political clambake on the Harding lawn drew about 2,000 guests that often included Governors and U.S. Senators, Scottish bagpipers and a Caledonian band. Now, as Kehoe lingered through the last days of his terminal illness in October, the new Loftus coalition was mounting an impressive takeover of city government, only two weeks after Kehoe’s death.
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