1880's ABANDONED farmhouse - You won't believe what's inside. 

Such a shame. I hate to see our beautiful old farms disappear. Its happening at an alarming rate across the US. 😢 Beautiful barn.

This would be beautiful if restored and such a peaceful looking area. Love the old Barns

Soo heart breaking-We Are Losing Our Lives and Family Farmers 🙏🙏🙏🙏

How Awesome This is were I lived with my father in 1974. I recognize this farm. Bowling Brook is near their. I visited people at this farm. So COOL Thank You

That one building is actually a corn crib which would have held ear corn as that was how it was stored 50 years ago. That is why the sides are slats to allow for air flow to help dry the ears of corn. Good explore.

I get nothing but good vibes from this old house. I wish she could be saved.

So sad these old farms are disappearing, I love the old barn.

What a beautiful old home place , I miss those old days

What you called the "hen house" was the well house. The concrete pit was used to cooling milk cans, butter, and other perishables. The windmill would have been nearby and pumped water through the pit continuously during the warm months.

I would love to own that farm and get to live in that house .

I really like how this man didnt touch everything & was the utmost respectful on this property!

The hole in the floor of the bedroom had an iron grate over it at one time. It was to let heat from the 1st floor come up to heat that room.

What a shame! That place could have been beautiful, probably once was 🥺

That's a pretty neat old farm house. It's a shame those old houses are left to rot down. That first build was an old corn crib. And the big barn at the end was a really old dairy barn. It doesn't look to even have pipe lines or a milk house. Interesting. Really neat

The first "barn" you were in was a corn crib. That's where they would put corn to dry out. The first building you called the hen house was the milk house. There was a cement bath along the wall where they would put the milk cans to cool until picked up by the milk company. The heating stove would not have been upstairs. It would have sat in the room right below the hole in the floor and would have had a stove pipe chimney that came up thru the hole in the floor and then bend over to the hole in the chimney wall upstairs heating both the downstairs and upstairs. My guess is it was an elderly couple that died and no one else ever moved in.

Ahhh, it always makes me feel sad when you see these abandoned homes, all their things just left there. This was great to see though

cam just imagine the chickens, horses, farmer and wife and many children playing in the area - bet it was so much fun during those years

Wow! I was hit with a ton of childhood memories from that rainbow pillowcase. I swear all my friends had those rainbow sheets. I remember having my sleeping bag, my Cabbage Patch Kid and my sticker book sitting on my bed waiting to go to a sleepover party

I LOVED growing up on a farm. Best thing my folks could done for us kids. City to the country! I miss it now that im older, as a kid, chores were tough to handle living in the midwest years ago when winters really sucked.😊 Im very grateful for growing up there.

stoves never went upstairs. Heat rises remember. And NOBODY wants to carry firewood upstairs! It would have been located somewhere on the main floor, either kitchen or livingroom, stove pipe went up thru that bedroom and into the chimney. Looks like they closed the ceiling in the lower level but didn't bother with upstairs. Likely parked a piece of furniture over it to prevent stepping in it. The only heat upstairs would have come off that chimney pipe and up the central staircase. Made for some speedy dressing on winter mornings! At least until they had the furnace put in. They definitely had dairy cattle with those head gates in the biggest barn. Little shed behind the house was not the chicken coop. I'm pretty sure that was the spring or milk house with that concrete "cooler" built right in. Likely had water that trickled thru it to keep the milk cans cold. I was happy to see they had the smarts to take the fridge door off!

Looks like somebody has repaired the foundation of that first barn. It's inn good shape. Would hate to see that one torn down. Now if someone would tear it down and reuse that nice lumber especially those big old beams. You can't replace those once scraped by a dozer and burned or just thrown away

Houses were similar in build at that time. Ours was. We had 100 year old barn renovated about 7 years ago. We had sold crop land. House and 6 acres we sold few years ago as got tired of renting it. Thank you for showing this.

Great job on finding an abandoned house. Maybe you could do this when you get tired of going to graveyards and cemeteries. 😊

It's quite an amazing find in the right hands. From the pine (which may heart pine), to the planking, doors. casings and fixtures, the entie structure could be a wealth of gratitude because it was preserved so well.

Such a cool looking place! Thanks for sharing!

I lived in a farmhouse on the east coast back in the early 90s. The layout was similar, and I actually had a skeleton key to one of the doors. The upstairs had a bedroom similar to the one with a sloped ceiling and wall paper peeling off. In one bedroom the plaster ceiling was water damaged and eventually partially collapsed, crazy! Drafty and hard to heat during a harsh winter. The windows were French style with individual panes like this house.

Small first bldg. Was wash house.First barn was a corn crib. The second cow barn. Third hog house. Out house was woork shop.

This is so sad. I hate to see old homes and barns just left to rot down. I’m sure it was nice in its day.

Thank you for posting this time capsule of a beautiful farm. Its sad to see these houses and barns disappear from our landscape in the name of progress. I wonder if there are any family members left who could provide a history of their life, growing up here?

That’s why these people had so many children….all the work involved‼️‼️‼️

Would love to own that vice.😊

The first one was a chicken coup. The second one was an old corn crib.They also had a horse barn, machine shed, and the last one is where they milked. I’m guessing the slab next to the barn, was the old milk house? Love these videos soo much!

I like 👍 old fashioned home 🏡

Kind of sad to see once was a thriving home and farm be so deserted- what surprised me the most was how many antique looking items were left untouched- and the fact no critters came dashing out when you were looking around! :P

The house looks like it could be saved.looks like someone started to work on house.

The Big Barn had a milking parlor in it. That's a nice old barn

The first barn you entered is not a barn. It's a corn crib. Whole ears of corn were stored in it for drying on the cob before shelling

Most people would not leave clothing furniture etc. One of the buildings was a tool shed, another one a machine shed. I wish i could buy some of the old items in here.

What's really interesting is the fact it was rather recently occupied yet whoever lived there left the original stuff pretty much as it was. This makes me believe the person or persons who took up residence there in ca. 2012 must have had some connection with the original owners. This is an odd one, that's for sure. Bums would have stripped the place.

dude at 9:22 there was a calendar ...you failed..LOL.....dead giveaway clue when las occupied ..at 18:40 had Ed Gein vibes...lol..thanks for posting

Oh this is so awesome!

The 2nd building you looked at after the house was an ear corn crib. 🌽

I love this sort of thing!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

That first building you went to from the house is actually the milk house that's where they started her brother equipment in for milking the milk machines the milk pails milk cans not chicken

Awesome!

What a nice farm it was back in the day. It's so sad that once they leave it that's all there is. No one to take over and enjoy it

,beautifull Good looking uk granny

Reminds me of growing up on the Slater farm in Smithshire, Illinois in the middle 60s those were great times on the farm

It looks like a lit if cool old stuff left behind its a shame its going to be torn down soon if it can tell stories i can only imagine what they say

The doors are beautiful‼️

It's a dairy barn (with a practically new roof) and the other barn with heavy beams spaced18" apart above was for storing winter hay which can be heavier than you might think.

The barn wood is worth a fortune where I live

The glass is wavy because it's leaded glass. The tires in the barn were bias supply tires most likely pre-70s.

Someone may have said it already and I could be wrong. The first little building you went in and said it was a hen house. It could well have been but I noticed a concrete area on the left. It's possible that was where they kept the milk way back in the day. It was put in cans and stored in cold water. We had one on our farm and so I thought maybe

Several have already said the heating stove (coal?) would have been on the first floor. If you notice the chimney connection in that bedroom, it's high up, which means the chimney didn't start in the basement, but was built on a shelf just below the 2nd floor ceiling. (yeah, bricks were a luxury) It was VERY common for the smoke pipe to go through a room just to grab a little more heat on the way. When that place was on oil heat it either had a metal chimney or they added a brick one on the outside of the house. The modern heater is gas and vents with PVC pipe. Kitchen is definitely circa 1960 update. The rest seems fairly original and likely teens to 20s vintage. That ceiling light fixture tells me the house was built around the time they had electricity, so that's why I figure the build date isn't earlier.

Corn cobs were used to heat home

This is a great explore this has been a beautiful place at one time thanks for taking me along.

Can't believe he missed the calendar in the kitchen😂. Could anybody make out the year? You can see the difference a metal roof makes on those barns and out buildings.

That siding is asbestos siding. It came in those long rectangular planks with that slight little wave to it it's fine if you keep it painted you just don't wanna break it up into little pieces and get it into the air.

The barn that you sled the door open at the beginning was for grain. You pulled your tractor and wagon in the center and scooped corn still on the cob into the wagon to take out and feed your livestock with mainly during the winter season/months. They are called gain bins with the openings to help dry out the corn.

How do you find these places? I lived in Lockport up until middle of last summer. Now out in Bradley, but we go out that way to my mom’s all the time. I would absolutely love to fly my drones there and get some photos of it before it is completely gone. Awesome video!! Been missing your videos with the winter and all. Are you on IG or Facebook by chance? Would love to follow you.

This.property reminds me of my Great Grandfathers in North Carolina but his house was brick‼️

Sad, these houses are full of architecture ‼️

Spelling award...Bernice Fritz.. on find a grave, 1923-2014. Elmhurst cemetery, Joliet.

Ist small building may have been spring house. 2nd building was a corn crib for whole ears. Farmers dried corn there then the shelter crew would come in and shell to haul away to elevator to sell. The corn cobs could have been for hog bedding or kindling to start wood fire.

A gold mine of reclaimable material (looks like someone scavenged siding off the one barn). The woodwork, the doors, of the house... Those chairs and the furniture... That Leinenkugel bottle is fairly recent. Unfortunately, this place will probably get bulldozed...or burned down to get rid of it. The large corporate farms don't want the buildings because they have to pay property taxes on them.

Beautiful home, sad really.

I wish you would've checked the bottom of some of those bottles in that root cellar area there for the dates and some of those were canned peaches I think, or pairs and probably green beans and some of those were the gases had erupted through the lids that were on their sidesand that cool old wooden table with the fold down leaf that you saw when you first went to the far wall would've been nice to comment on. Also, that would be an amazing ref piece to sell at some country store.

2:00 that's the old milk house by the looks of it. Looks to be the old can cooler where that concrete basin is. 3:00 is the corn crib.

Classic Greek revival. So sad to see it in such bad shape.

I doubt this farm is from the 1800's. The building materials are all 20th century. It is an interesting property, just not that old.

Does it say it is for sale? I would love to find this and purchase it. Reminds me of my childhood. Does anyone know where this is located?

Good job on your vid.

A lot of farmers will notice people going on their property and try to secure the doors first as a way to steer pilfers and trespassers off and when that doesn’t work they burn the house down. Stop trespassing and ask permission.

That small shed with the cement might of been a spring house where they stored milk cans to keep tee milk cold you didn't letsee enough

The flooring in the upstairs bedroom with the hole in it is asbestos again fine if you just leave it alone, or cover it with something

Boy would I like to own that place lock stock and barrel

Well, the clock is the right time twice a day

Barns are in good condition

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15:33 Interesting video. Wondering why you passed by the calendar on the wall that would have revealed to us the last 'year' and possibly month someone likely lived there?

Sad there not to save and remove the old farmhouse

That first ‘barn’ you visited wasn’t a barn, it’s a corn crib.

We had good barns all over Illinois , but people over the years , have gotten to lazy to take care of them , to lazy to mow grass , cut down brush , or paint 🎨 🤔 & keep up any property. They hire their work done nowadays , by ones who can afford it. Was not that way long ago, people done their own work , around their own places , they made their kids work also, not like that anymore !!!!! When folks get older, they should sell, to someone who can fix it back up , before it gets unfixable. Some people let their property go down. This is the shame of US culture nowadays. 😮😮😢 Kevin Phoenix ✝️

Hope somebody buys it

I swear I heard chickens in the coop and horses walking in the first barn!

More like he pass after her and family sold the farm people don't leave clothing and other stuff be hind it more likely what happened

What a shame. The corporation is just going to tear those buildings down and probably destroy all the wood and contents in the process.

Save these things‼️

Repairs needed

Did you happen to notice the year on that wall calendar that you kept walking past?

If someone said boo he'd $%!t his pants 😅

Its been many years since this was a working farm.

You dont see light fixtures like that any more and that hole in the floor was no doubt a floor grate to let heat up there.

I would love for you to look upstairs in the barn, and open things like what looked like a gramophone, when you picked up the graduation certificate.

Interesting i live in Joliet, Illinois

Ps look like they dairy farmers be they milk cow part barn and part for work horses it pretty cool house and barns sad think whole lives and pass away no one want to farm it after the two older people where gone just sad

Have fun with ghost and attachments when you leave haunted😊

16:46 - SOMEONE SAVE THAT OLD RADIO!

Thos is off of black road near Shorewood right?