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The Hidden Legacy Of The Abandoned Farmhouse That I Found In Long Island, New York
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I discovered an abandoned farmhouse built in 1860 on Long Island, New York, with centuries of history and treasures left behind. Antique furniture, photographs, and paintings were scattered around and throughout. After some research, I discovered that due to a legal battle between the former family and current owners. Things have been left for decades in a state of decay.
Step inside the historical century-old farmhouse in Long Island, and take a look at the legacies left there.
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The exterior
The parlour
The Dining Room
The living room
A floral touch
Antique piano
Family memories
Main foyer staircase
An upstairs vanity
An upstairs bedroom
Antique medicines
A sewing corner
Sewing machine
Home remedies
A long hallway
Looking inside
Clothes in a closet
Antique bathroom mirror
A room in the attic
Antique dress form
Ladies shoes
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Farm house? I don't know, but to me, it doesn't look like a farm house - it's too grand. And there is nothing in the interior shots that would point to those folks as being farmers. That aside, it's sad that someone's personal belongings were just left there. But people die all the time who have no friends or kin left in the world. Their loneliness is so sad.
American farmhouses sometimes look like this, especially those established pre-Depression. The family might have been grand before things went sideways and they had to abandon. I used to find farmhouses like this in the 1970s and 80s when so many farmers went belly up where I lived in Delaware.
The photographs and documents would be the greatest treasure for anyone tracing their family history. It is such a shame when things like that are allowed to become lost.
I do wonder how this happens. I've seen examples in parts of the USA and in other nations too. In NJ if someone stops paying the property taxes, a tax lien is generated and can be foreclosed upon in less than 10 years. Only lands and homes with badly encumbered titles come to this sad fate. So the choice is 1) take ownership and pay taxes or sell the property 2) abandon the property and the lien holder will improve, sell, or otherwise dispose of the home and lands once they gain clear title. I'm not pointing fingers, but I have never seen so many abandoned houses as in South Carolina. The law there seems to encourage the poverty of the people and destroys the tax base of the town/county. The waste simply amazes me!
I always wonder how this happens!!! Recently, I took it upon me to find out what happened to one of the abandoned properties in our area as it's been left in neglect for 35+ years; turns out the lady is in her late 80's now, on her death bed and left the property abandoned simply paying the property taxes all those years occasionally having landscapers come out once that final notice was sent....makes no sense but she did and now the home is so gone, it's only worth the land less the required demolition costs. Was such a beautiful Victorian home too back in '86 all the way up to the late-90's...
so sad. :( "People and their choices", huh? :o
Staged photos, being abandoned for decades, how does that plastic trashcan on wheels in the pic of "The Dining Room" happen to be there.
Sorry I don’t buy this. In some pics it looks like a pack of rats have had a riot and some walls are crack like eggshells and the wallpapers are loose or fallen off. BUT the colors are TOO vibrant, the light colors are TOO light and although things are scattered all around the rooms are still TOO clean, the surfaces of glasses, furniture and glazed ceramics glances and all fabrics are TOO well preserved for a 150 year old ABANDON house on US north east coast! Some pics looks like models in a dollhouse and I KNOW a rose do not keep neither fresh nor clear red for that long!!! I say the outside pic is real, but the rest is fake made “real” by the first pic, the story and a lot of assumptions, imagination and want-to-believe from the viewers.
Some houses are staged for historic tours. It could have been fixed up more recently and then if funding fell through, abandoned
I believe this may have been the case, however when I entered it had not been accessed in about 40 years.
My thoughts also .... many staged photographs here.
The flowers are artificial. If there isn't a lot of light the colors are unlikely to fade much especially if the fabric and dyes are all man-made
Hm. I am still sceptical...
I always wonder, how did you gain access to the house? Did you break into the legally contested home? A lot of the items have clearly been cleaned, some have price tags on them. In one pic there is a large plastic garbage can and what looks like new boxes of nails on the table. Unless you were cleaning, dusting, and polishing mirrors it just looks like you just wandered into a previously abandoned home before it was ready for an estate sale.
I was given access by the people who inherited the property. It was previously untouched for about 40 years.
Is this from the 1800's wow....the clothes must be the last 1800's the end of it....LOVE IT
Why is it a house like that can stay relatively untouched, while pictures of abandoned unclear bunkers are full of grafitti etc.?
Uhm, where did the people go?? 😳
how much to buy it, exactly as it is? (Seriously... how divine is this place? Would loooooove to own it!!)
Amazing to see this location in such a preserved state this day in age...excellent photos! Tempted to head up there to check this place out before vandals get to it.
Wow, completely enjoyed all the photos. Wanted to see more. Sad in a way, but with the right connections, this all should be in a museum as a reminder of times gone by. (no indoor plumbing too) Where was the outhouse?
Very sad
But is it haunted?
OMG, that piano! And the headboard in the bedroom. WAAAAANT!
Farm house? I don't know, but to me, it doesn't look like a farm house - it's too grand. And there is nothing in the interior shots that would point to those folks as being farmers. That aside, it's sad that someone's personal belongings were just left there. But people die all the time who have no friends or kin left in the world. Their loneliness is so sad.
American farmhouses sometimes look like this, especially those established pre-Depression. The family might have been grand before things went sideways and they had to abandon. I used to find farmhouses like this in the 1970s and 80s when so many farmers went belly up where I lived in Delaware.
The photographs and documents would be the greatest treasure for anyone tracing their family history. It is such a shame when things like that are allowed to become lost.
I do wonder how this happens. I've seen examples in parts of the USA and in other nations too. In NJ if someone stops paying the property taxes, a tax lien is generated and can be foreclosed upon in less than 10 years. Only lands and homes with badly encumbered titles come to this sad fate. So the choice is 1) take ownership and pay taxes or sell the property 2) abandon the property and the lien holder will improve, sell, or otherwise dispose of the home and lands once they gain clear title. I'm not pointing fingers, but I have never seen so many abandoned houses as in South Carolina. The law there seems to encourage the poverty of the people and destroys the tax base of the town/county. The waste simply amazes me!
I always wonder how this happens!!! Recently, I took it upon me to find out what happened to one of the abandoned properties in our area as it's been left in neglect for 35+ years; turns out the lady is in her late 80's now, on her death bed and left the property abandoned simply paying the property taxes all those years occasionally having landscapers come out once that final notice was sent....makes no sense but she did and now the home is so gone, it's only worth the land less the required demolition costs. Was such a beautiful Victorian home too back in '86 all the way up to the late-90's...
so sad. :( "People and their choices", huh? :o
Staged photos, being abandoned for decades, how does that plastic trashcan on wheels in the pic of "The Dining Room" happen to be there.
Sorry I don’t buy this. In some pics it looks like a pack of rats have had a riot and some walls are crack like eggshells and the wallpapers are loose or fallen off. BUT the colors are TOO vibrant, the light colors are TOO light and although things are scattered all around the rooms are still TOO clean, the surfaces of glasses, furniture and glazed ceramics glances and all fabrics are TOO well preserved for a 150 year old ABANDON house on US north east coast! Some pics looks like models in a dollhouse and I KNOW a rose do not keep neither fresh nor clear red for that long!!! I say the outside pic is real, but the rest is fake made “real” by the first pic, the story and a lot of assumptions, imagination and want-to-believe from the viewers.
Some houses are staged for historic tours. It could have been fixed up more recently and then if funding fell through, abandoned
I believe this may have been the case, however when I entered it had not been accessed in about 40 years.
My thoughts also .... many staged photographs here.
The flowers are artificial. If there isn't a lot of light the colors are unlikely to fade much especially if the fabric and dyes are all man-made
Hm. I am still sceptical...
I always wonder, how did you gain access to the house? Did you break into the legally contested home? A lot of the items have clearly been cleaned, some have price tags on them. In one pic there is a large plastic garbage can and what looks like new boxes of nails on the table. Unless you were cleaning, dusting, and polishing mirrors it just looks like you just wandered into a previously abandoned home before it was ready for an estate sale.
I was given access by the people who inherited the property. It was previously untouched for about 40 years.
Is this from the 1800's wow....the clothes must be the last 1800's the end of it....LOVE IT
Why is it a house like that can stay relatively untouched, while pictures of abandoned unclear bunkers are full of grafitti etc.?
Uhm, where did the people go?? 😳
how much to buy it, exactly as it is? (Seriously... how divine is this place? Would loooooove to own it!!)
Amazing to see this location in such a preserved state this day in age...excellent photos! Tempted to head up there to check this place out before vandals get to it.
Wow, completely enjoyed all the photos. Wanted to see more. Sad in a way, but with the right connections, this all should be in a museum as a reminder of times gone by. (no indoor plumbing too) Where was the outhouse?
Very sad
But is it haunted?
OMG, that piano! And the headboard in the bedroom. WAAAAANT!