This Confederate Colonel’s House Was Left Behind With All Its Belongings Still Inside (26 Pics)
As an urban explorer it’s the kind of house you dream about. A house filled with so much history, every way you hold your camera a new story can be told. Look around inside the abandoned house of a Confederate civil war Colonel. From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around, as vines and nature creep in to take over.
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The 1853 Greek revival-style house
Virginia creeper vines overtaking the exterior
The antique decorated parlour is slowly peeling away
Taxidermy stag head in a bedroom
A photograph of 19 members of a WWII combat battalion
A bedroom with Victorian armoire
Antique bureau with mirror and vintage militaria
Marble-topped east-lake washstand and dresser
Tall mirror chair in the foyer
The master bedroom with portrait of the colonel
Elegant Victorian vanity dressing table
Various papers and pamphlets across a writing desk
The grand entrance hall staircase
Old photographs and postcards
An attic of oddities
Mid century kitchen with appliances
Vintage rotary phone hangs on the kitchen wall
The kitchen’s medicine cabinet
A glimpse into the crumbling dining room
Flowers and glassware scattered atop a dresser in a bedroom
In the attic old books and an antique pump organ
An antique trunk filled with old papers and letters
Vines growing up a bedroom wall
The English style basement
The homes private graveyard
Generations of family members in the graveyard
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I have seen a lot of.posts abt such abandoned homes. It always intrigues me that people just left a huge part of their lives in those houses and went away, just like that, never to return! I wonder what caused such abrupt moves. Even here there are kettles in the kitchen, as if someone was just making thoer morning coffee.
I could understand, that if people die or get sick and have to move they leave their things behind. What I don’t get, is why nobody else cares for this stuff. Surely there must be family or friends, why don’t they do something about all this, partly really beautiful, belongings rotting away slowly. I experienced this myself. We once wanted to buy an older house, after the owner had died in hospital a year or so ago. The door was opened for us by a relative of this man, and it was just unsettling: the kitchen table was still set with breakfast board, knife, marmelade, coffee creamer… so this man had a heartattack, the ambulance was called and the door was just shut and never opened again until we came. What kind of person could he have been, that no one cared about his belongings? Still harrowing…
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My absolute dream is to buy a house of this sort and rummage through it for fun.
We've just done exactly that - an old mill house in rural France. It actually looks a lot like the one in these pics (interior mostly). Rummaging is not so much fun though. We're just finding a lot of broken glass, roof tiles, moldy wallpaper and bat droppings. And after months of digging up bramble roots in the garden, the only treasure we've discovered are bits of wire and broken bottles. :/
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My parents bought a house in the 80s that was almost 100 years old and had just been "left". It was amazing to rummage through, I still clearly remember all the photos that had been left behind. There were letters, newspapers and clothes. Like a small box that was full of medical supplies from the war - I think she was a nurse. Dad restored the house from top to bottom and left things for others later to find, like 20c in the concrete surround of the oven with the penny he found
I have seen a lot of.posts abt such abandoned homes. It always intrigues me that people just left a huge part of their lives in those houses and went away, just like that, never to return! I wonder what caused such abrupt moves. Even here there are kettles in the kitchen, as if someone was just making thoer morning coffee.
I could understand, that if people die or get sick and have to move they leave their things behind. What I don’t get, is why nobody else cares for this stuff. Surely there must be family or friends, why don’t they do something about all this, partly really beautiful, belongings rotting away slowly. I experienced this myself. We once wanted to buy an older house, after the owner had died in hospital a year or so ago. The door was opened for us by a relative of this man, and it was just unsettling: the kitchen table was still set with breakfast board, knife, marmelade, coffee creamer… so this man had a heartattack, the ambulance was called and the door was just shut and never opened again until we came. What kind of person could he have been, that no one cared about his belongings? Still harrowing…
Load More Replies... My absolute dream is to buy a house of this sort and rummage through it for fun.
We've just done exactly that - an old mill house in rural France. It actually looks a lot like the one in these pics (interior mostly). Rummaging is not so much fun though. We're just finding a lot of broken glass, roof tiles, moldy wallpaper and bat droppings. And after months of digging up bramble roots in the garden, the only treasure we've discovered are bits of wire and broken bottles. :/
Load More Replies... My parents bought a house in the 80s that was almost 100 years old and had just been "left". It was amazing to rummage through, I still clearly remember all the photos that had been left behind. There were letters, newspapers and clothes. Like a small box that was full of medical supplies from the war - I think she was a nurse. Dad restored the house from top to bottom and left things for others later to find, like 20c in the concrete surround of the oven with the penny he found
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