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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Share on FacebookI 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
I love seeing things like this! I want that old trunk and books.
I'm genuinely surprised how much furniture remains in the house. And some of it's in mint condition. Heck, the beds still had linen on them. It's like the previous residents just up and left taking only their clothes. You would think people would have looted the "free" antiques by now.
This is probably staged in a old home. If no one had tended to it for years it wouldn't look this good. Phone on the wall,console television......
Load More Replies...A view on how the foyer designs were kept pretty close on some of these homes, lower image is from Bryan Sansiveros earlier posting here. https://tinyurl.com/bored-panda comp-5ee86...a2cd3b.jpg
Many of these photos look staged. A lot of items positioned very conveniently and free of dust.
I was thinking the same. Very artfully staged. The coat on the chair in the living room would be totally moth eaten and ragged by now.
Load More Replies...Love it! Some are obviously "staged" (too neat), but I'm used to that by now. So many treasures! I'd be out the door with that trunk, lol. I see the "vintage" phone (gotta be the '60s or '70s) is throwing some folks off. The house itself is from the 1800s, but the belongings are from various years as the family grew, that's what makes it such a cool find to me. From the opening text: "From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around ..."
So the new term for one who goes into a private property uninvited to take pictures of a dead mans stuff is no longer "trespasser" but "urban explorer"?
You realize that some day whoever this property was left to will die, and the county, or some professional cleaners hired by whatever cousin inherits, will come in and dump everything in the garbage? You can't trespass against the dead. Don't be a snowflake.
Load More Replies...Why do u mfus have to pick everything apart!?!!! Ive never seen a bigger bunch of A** holes!!!! STFU!!!!!!!!
The first thing I'd look for in an abandoned property is the date of the last occupancy. A calendar or newspaper. I saw nothing in these photos newer than the 1980s, but nothing was mentioned. Hard to believe a place would sit untouched for almost 40 years. If this is a legitimate find and not staged as some have suggested more facts are needed.
It is amazing to me that no one steals the items in houses like this. It's such a snapshot of an era.
OMGosh growing up we had the EXACT stove! So many lovely things just abandoned here. Sad, but yet hauntingly beautiful.
My inner thrift girl want to rummage every pile and see what can be saved and be given to salvation army or just give to those who don't have enough.
Given the mid-20th century stuff left behind, I presume that the place might have been ransacked by squatters over time. On why it was left as is, numerous things come to mind, as other posts herein have surmised. One other idea is this: the last resident was a WWII veteran, or spouse. The kids, baby boomers, might have taken off for their own lives and never returned (actually, a more common story than one might think). They may not have had grandchildren, and the children died before returning. When the local ambulance service took the last resident away for the hospital, or morgue, the place was left as-is, and no owner returned to reside. -Dr M, retired history professor
So can you just take things like that if it's an abandoned house?
No, only pictures (you also need permission to enter the property, being the US, you could be shot if you don't have permission, but I guess nobody cares about this home)
Load More Replies...Please do not publish the location of this house. There are people that will seek it out and burn it to the ground!
This house was obviously abandoned in the 40s. The title is very misleading.
There is beautiful furnishings in there that I would love to have. Just to bad it went to waste. Hope someone gets it that takes care of it
One could only wish some of these items could be taken restored and preserved for museum pieces.
I think these pictures are too 'staged' looking to be true. This house was obviously abandoned a long time ago & yet the flowers are still yellow? Close examination shows they are fake but still no dust & quite bright. And absolutely no dust on the pamphlets on the table? The table with the photos was dusty but the photos weren't. And they are just a bit too artfully scattered. The kitchen has peeling wallpaper & bright steel kettles. The yellow sofa in the 'parlour' is way too clean compared with the wallpaper that has peeled itself off the wall. And that sad photo of WWII pals? Closer inspection leads me to believe otherwise. They are holding a flag who's insignia doesn't fit with any other one, and not everyone is in uniform. The hat would have molded away far before now & that shiny shoe? It's a tap shoe. I've heard of people who stage photos in old buildings with their own props & I think that is what has happened here, which is sad because the house speaks better without them.
So this is a "Confederate colonel"s house? No: 1) the confederate army disbanded in 1865 and the phone is a 1960s model 2) that ammo box is *not* from an era that used flint muskets confederate army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_forces_of_the_Confederate_States phone: https://www.loveproperty.com/galleries/95574/secrets-of-a-confederate-colonels-abandoned-dream-home?page=1 (picture 8)
Sorry....but the photo with the ammo box is photo shopped....and badly I might add. When I see something like that I loose respect for the photographer.
So tired of these staged "OMG look what we found!" photos. Only a dullard would believe this s**t.
This is how the home was left. Please take your negativity somewhere else. If you don't care for these kinds of articles then don't read them.
Load More Replies...Did you read the first paragraph?
Load More Replies...I love urban explorations, but some of this stuff seems pre-arranged. That said, I wish I could go in that house and poke around!
How is there a WWII photo in a home that was abandoned during the Civil War?
Interesting, but it's a shame none of these are real, they are all staged pics.
I just dont get how this "urban explorers" gets inside private properties without blinking much about....it does belong to someone, you dont have any right to invade a property just to expose the privacy of people that are not alive anymore in order to get "likes" for your work. See how bad ended the story of that abandoned mansion of the Russian magnate in UK...finally the Police was involved. A door is closed, and you are not invited in. Stay away.
Very staged. If the fresh flowers didn’t give it away the dust patterns do. If it really were untouched since the 60’s, nature would’ve fully taken over.
The flowers didn't look very fresh, however, for a place not lived in for over 30 years (my guess), there were no missing windows, vandalism, graffito. The open cupboards etc. said the place had been visited before and the "look" possibly staged.
Load More Replies...Please take your racist politics elsewhere.
Load More Replies...No but the house was still built during that time. Just like there were no smart phones in 1959 yet I'm holding one in a 1959 home.
Load More Replies...You mean the CSA, surely? Or perhaps the colonel was just very, very long lived (seems he took part in WWII as well).
Load More Replies...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
I love seeing things like this! I want that old trunk and books.
I'm genuinely surprised how much furniture remains in the house. And some of it's in mint condition. Heck, the beds still had linen on them. It's like the previous residents just up and left taking only their clothes. You would think people would have looted the "free" antiques by now.
This is probably staged in a old home. If no one had tended to it for years it wouldn't look this good. Phone on the wall,console television......
Load More Replies...A view on how the foyer designs were kept pretty close on some of these homes, lower image is from Bryan Sansiveros earlier posting here. https://tinyurl.com/bored-panda comp-5ee86...a2cd3b.jpg
Many of these photos look staged. A lot of items positioned very conveniently and free of dust.
I was thinking the same. Very artfully staged. The coat on the chair in the living room would be totally moth eaten and ragged by now.
Load More Replies...Love it! Some are obviously "staged" (too neat), but I'm used to that by now. So many treasures! I'd be out the door with that trunk, lol. I see the "vintage" phone (gotta be the '60s or '70s) is throwing some folks off. The house itself is from the 1800s, but the belongings are from various years as the family grew, that's what makes it such a cool find to me. From the opening text: "From centuries ago, until mid-century modern, remnants of generations of families are scattered all around ..."
So the new term for one who goes into a private property uninvited to take pictures of a dead mans stuff is no longer "trespasser" but "urban explorer"?
You realize that some day whoever this property was left to will die, and the county, or some professional cleaners hired by whatever cousin inherits, will come in and dump everything in the garbage? You can't trespass against the dead. Don't be a snowflake.
Load More Replies...Why do u mfus have to pick everything apart!?!!! Ive never seen a bigger bunch of A** holes!!!! STFU!!!!!!!!
The first thing I'd look for in an abandoned property is the date of the last occupancy. A calendar or newspaper. I saw nothing in these photos newer than the 1980s, but nothing was mentioned. Hard to believe a place would sit untouched for almost 40 years. If this is a legitimate find and not staged as some have suggested more facts are needed.
It is amazing to me that no one steals the items in houses like this. It's such a snapshot of an era.
OMGosh growing up we had the EXACT stove! So many lovely things just abandoned here. Sad, but yet hauntingly beautiful.
My inner thrift girl want to rummage every pile and see what can be saved and be given to salvation army or just give to those who don't have enough.
Given the mid-20th century stuff left behind, I presume that the place might have been ransacked by squatters over time. On why it was left as is, numerous things come to mind, as other posts herein have surmised. One other idea is this: the last resident was a WWII veteran, or spouse. The kids, baby boomers, might have taken off for their own lives and never returned (actually, a more common story than one might think). They may not have had grandchildren, and the children died before returning. When the local ambulance service took the last resident away for the hospital, or morgue, the place was left as-is, and no owner returned to reside. -Dr M, retired history professor
So can you just take things like that if it's an abandoned house?
No, only pictures (you also need permission to enter the property, being the US, you could be shot if you don't have permission, but I guess nobody cares about this home)
Load More Replies...Please do not publish the location of this house. There are people that will seek it out and burn it to the ground!
This house was obviously abandoned in the 40s. The title is very misleading.
There is beautiful furnishings in there that I would love to have. Just to bad it went to waste. Hope someone gets it that takes care of it
One could only wish some of these items could be taken restored and preserved for museum pieces.
I think these pictures are too 'staged' looking to be true. This house was obviously abandoned a long time ago & yet the flowers are still yellow? Close examination shows they are fake but still no dust & quite bright. And absolutely no dust on the pamphlets on the table? The table with the photos was dusty but the photos weren't. And they are just a bit too artfully scattered. The kitchen has peeling wallpaper & bright steel kettles. The yellow sofa in the 'parlour' is way too clean compared with the wallpaper that has peeled itself off the wall. And that sad photo of WWII pals? Closer inspection leads me to believe otherwise. They are holding a flag who's insignia doesn't fit with any other one, and not everyone is in uniform. The hat would have molded away far before now & that shiny shoe? It's a tap shoe. I've heard of people who stage photos in old buildings with their own props & I think that is what has happened here, which is sad because the house speaks better without them.
So this is a "Confederate colonel"s house? No: 1) the confederate army disbanded in 1865 and the phone is a 1960s model 2) that ammo box is *not* from an era that used flint muskets confederate army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_forces_of_the_Confederate_States phone: https://www.loveproperty.com/galleries/95574/secrets-of-a-confederate-colonels-abandoned-dream-home?page=1 (picture 8)
Sorry....but the photo with the ammo box is photo shopped....and badly I might add. When I see something like that I loose respect for the photographer.
So tired of these staged "OMG look what we found!" photos. Only a dullard would believe this s**t.
This is how the home was left. Please take your negativity somewhere else. If you don't care for these kinds of articles then don't read them.
Load More Replies...Did you read the first paragraph?
Load More Replies...I love urban explorations, but some of this stuff seems pre-arranged. That said, I wish I could go in that house and poke around!
How is there a WWII photo in a home that was abandoned during the Civil War?
Interesting, but it's a shame none of these are real, they are all staged pics.
I just dont get how this "urban explorers" gets inside private properties without blinking much about....it does belong to someone, you dont have any right to invade a property just to expose the privacy of people that are not alive anymore in order to get "likes" for your work. See how bad ended the story of that abandoned mansion of the Russian magnate in UK...finally the Police was involved. A door is closed, and you are not invited in. Stay away.
Very staged. If the fresh flowers didn’t give it away the dust patterns do. If it really were untouched since the 60’s, nature would’ve fully taken over.
The flowers didn't look very fresh, however, for a place not lived in for over 30 years (my guess), there were no missing windows, vandalism, graffito. The open cupboards etc. said the place had been visited before and the "look" possibly staged.
Load More Replies...Please take your racist politics elsewhere.
Load More Replies...No but the house was still built during that time. Just like there were no smart phones in 1959 yet I'm holding one in a 1959 home.
Load More Replies...You mean the CSA, surely? Or perhaps the colonel was just very, very long lived (seems he took part in WWII as well).
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