Abandoned Mansion of Business Tycoon William Elkins! 

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There's a hint of sadness and loss I just can't shake when I see these videos. The beauty.... the place is awesome. I'd like to see it become a park with tours. I'd pay to visit. I'd offer to help keep it up if I could live there as a ground keeper

I cant help but think of when this was being built, that gentleman would have been overseeing its construction. A smile on his face as he saw his dream come to fruition, he would have strolled its yard, admiring its splendor. The home and the land would have bought so much happiness to many..... and now, it just brings wonder as to how one mans dream can fade away like this...

This was the home in which Eleanor Elkins was raised. Her father was Mr. Elkins. She married George Widener and they moved to Lynnewood Hall. Sadly, George and their son Harry died on the Titanic. Eleanor survived. Beautiful Trumbauer home!

Someone is taking care of the house tho landscape looks alright. I just can't believe these houses sit up like this no family or nothing moving in. Let me have it I will take good care of it.....

This place is breathtaking! I can't imagine what it's actually like to see it in person. I love how you guys put in facts and photos of the inside. I hope someone opens it up as a museum or something so the general public can enjoy this magnificent mansion! Awesome job guys, thank you for sharing.

Looks like the kind of place that requires 140 fireplaces just to keep it above freezing. Lovely architecture though.

I absolutely love to see young people appreciate this historic architecture. Keep up the good work.

im so obsessed with these vids lol

It’s sad that people back then who had money felt the need to build such huge homes no one needs a home that big now it sits empty and falling apart it’s sad.

spent again most of the day watching these videos ... better than television really , awesome !

You do an awesome job with your explores, videos and history. I appreciate that you give the history rather than curse and swear throughout your videos. I love knowing something about the place you explore! Great job!

What a shame. I was actually considering this place as a wedding venue back into 2010. On a more positive note, this mansion actually has been in near continual use so it is nowhere as in bad shape as many of these "abandoned" gilded age mansions.

Omg This place is amazing!!! I would move in right now as is if I could! Great drone footage! 🖤🎃💛

It's beautiful! Just want to say I appreciate the work you do. Your by far my favorite. Love the info and history you share. Keep up the good work!

Simply breath taking. From a time of grace and elegance

They should set up paid tours for these beautiful homes. I'm sure a lot of people would come for the tours.

I watched many of your videos yesterday and enjoyed most of them. I just had to make a comment on this one because it made me so very sad. It amazes me that no one seems to care about this place. There has got to be a way that someone could save this jewel of a mansion. After watching your video I was prompted to do some research on the place and the beauty is unbelievable. I know that there is nothing that you can do about this, I just needed to vent. I would also like to say kuddos to you. I have been watching quite a few videos about urban exploring and I am impressed at how you shoot your videos and the things that you say. I like the fact that you don't judge past owners. You just look at the property and explain what you see. Please keep up your good work. And good luck on completing your newly acquired property. Very proud of you.

I have got to say that with all the videos like this that I watch , and I watch a lot , yours have got to be the best ! Your eye for detail , the music , the drone shots and how you enter the info on the screen . Keep it up !

With all due respect,, most who watched this video don't realize what an undertaking it was to build such a magnificent home such as this. It was a painstaking love of craftsmanship by artisans practicing old world technique & someone with very deep pockets to see it financially through. As stated,, so much of this home was imported from Europe & that within itself was quite the chore communicating specific details of each & every piece through transcontinental communications such as telegram & wire service. The industrial magnates of yesteryear attempted to outdo one another with the splendor of such a home represented such as this one. They wanted their home to be the "premier home". This home is a historic masterpiece which probably doesn't get the noticed appreciation by local planning committees who almost consider it a large behemoth of blight at this point. They do this not unappreciative of it's actual splendor,, but with the realization there aren't too many modern day billionaires willing to live in this area today in such a monstrous home paying the maintenance & property taxation or simply living in an area where time has passed it by. This home is primarily 5 conjoined homes & the present owner with cooperation from local authorities should treat it as such,, possibly splitting the home,, subdividing it into 5 such separate units,, partitioned & sold off as 5 separate living quarters to well healed suitors willing to live side by side enjoying & touting it's historical significance. The home could easily be accessed by 4-5 such families once again becoming a vibrant part of the community. Instead,, it's my opinion local authorities are biding their time with the assumption the owner will eventually run out of money themselves caving to the ongoing expense of keeping up with a zero return home such as it is now & succumb to foreclosure tax liens. I find it a complete shame a home of this magnitude isn't justly studied to a plan invigorating it's long term usage. The community deserves better & if properly managed,, a showcase home such as this could actually bring in industry or higher business interests who could utilize or leverage such a home in their business model. There simply aren't any singular private individuals interested pursuing long term expense & ownership of a home this large,, the locals should form a committee to preserve & figure a way to utilize a property almost built to perennial specifications. The home with it's granite exterior & tiled roof is virtually forever,, someone just needs to figure out what to do with it next..

This house- what an amzing architecture, breathtaking. It is so sad, that so many beautiful houses with stories, history, is ruined, because everything changes. And there's nothing can do. This house is treasure, something unique. Ok, my heart is breaking..but thats sad life about beautiful places...

A beautiful home/estate. Lots of good info about it,too!!! I think it should be opened to the public,to see how the very rich once lived!! Thanks for sharing,a great job!!!!

The Biltmore estate in Asheville North Carolina is just as grand as the estates you show on your channel but people can tour the Biltmore house whenever they wish too .

Don't you ever try to get inside these places? I don't mean break in, get permission from the owners.

The mansion itself was called Elstowe Manor. This site has pictures of both the interior and exterior: www.locationdepartment.net/locations/9106/

I am blown away by your videos! The time you take, thr history of the places, the photos you find, are amazing. My 3 month old will watch an entire of your videos while having breakfast! This place has me head over heels in LOVE WITH it! Way too big for my predernce, not because of cleaning. I'd hire staff lol. I prefer smaller homes. Every video I've seen of yours, I gotta say are the best I've watch so far. Keep it up man!

That house is to die for, shame it's not in the uk, I'd love to see it

The surrounding area is also beautiful any home would be nice to have in a beautiful green landscapes!!

This would make an awesome wedding destination/bed and breakfast/hotel. With the side wing as apartment rentals. So beautiful. If I had millions to buy and invest in a property like this I would snatch it in a heartbeat.

Love your videos and the related information you give! Keep um coming!! Great job!!

Would be wonderful if a big hotel company renovate and landscape rather than build from scratch. Oh the possibilities . . . .

This place is beautiful how lucky you guys are thankyou for sharing this

WOW, GREAT SHOTS as ALWAYS KYLE!!!! But it's NOT a HOUSE, it's an ESTATE!!!!

I loved your video!! I grew up in Elkins Park, and my life long friend, lived in a beautiful house only about two or three houses down from this mansion. I dont know if you are aware of this, but when I was growing up, the property was owned by a Christian religion. It was called the Faith Theological Seminary. That probably explains the chapel room with all the pews and Bibles. I envy you for being given permission to tour the site. Anyway, thanks for the great tour you put together! Great Job !!!

Love the PICS AND HISTORY. Thanks for being respectful and not breaking in! Many would have!

This is magnificent & breathtaking. I wouldn't want to live in anything this big. I like that you put in pieces of info about the places that you are exploring. Thank for sharing.

I’m just curious how you find all these places. Do you drive around just looking for these places or do you research online? However you find them it’s awesome and I enjoy watching from biloxi Mississippi!!

Absolutely love your video, style & back history on this gorgeous mansion. Thank you!

William's grandson Harry Elkins Widener lived at nearby Lynnewood Hall.

Love the music goes very well with the areal footage. I would re open the gallery and have weddings and lavish parties,(as done b4) prolly hella advertising to keep ppl coming and spend money to keep the place open. Hope security is hired to keep vandals out would be terribly sad to see another lavish mansion go to waste. Thanks Kyle for sharing.

This is Lori Bach. Definitely an "8-energy" influence here especially with the inside decor and external large blocks! Nothing but opulence and a "larger than life"/bold appearance. There is symmetry inside and outside so a "5-energy" is highly probable meaning, you can cut this mansion in half with an imaginary line and both the inside and outside are symmetrical/equal. Living right next door to the Titanic owner, what a coincidence! Awesome job Kyle, thank you!

WOW! Nothing extravagant Going on here at all? A dream come true!!! My oh My! what a great house!! imagine the Taxes!

I would have that has my summer home and in the meantime, have it open for tours and weddings. It is such a lovely place!!

Thank you for the history to go along with the footage. The history is what makes the video stand out from the rest. I would not want to live there.......the heating bill would drive me broke.

I can't believe this house is just sitting here like omg!!! I want to see the inside!!!!

i love watching abondoned mansions by kyle mc gran because he puts details like whose the owner and etc informations, thanks kyle for sharing..

thank you we would have never seen such a beautiful place. safe travels

I'm surprised no one has turned into a bed & breakfast or some type of park/historic house tours

Most gorgeous house. Well built. someone must have kept the place. How much would it costs! If I could live there, I would change nothing. Nothing. Cam we visit?

This was a great video and all the points you made about it. Drone footage was awesome!

Never knew these places were so close to where I live .I must visit the homes of the past wealth of our country .I mapped the location...I could be there in twenty mins .Man I love stuff like this amazes me .Thanks for the info .Time for trip down to Elkins park !!!!

I really enjoy watching your videos of abandoned houses and mansions. Although I really wouldn't be comfortable living in a mansion. Thank you for sharing this with us. Also thank you Kyle for not using foul language on your videos.

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Beautiful house, such a shame it's been left empty. Great drone footage

Breathtaking, such a gorgeous house.

really beautiful place!!!

The good news is the roof looks real good. Red Tile? The interior shots are magical.

Obviously someone must still be taking care of it since the lawn around the house looks as if it's been maintained. This is a truly beautiful estate !! I would love to live there just to help maintain the history of it.

William Elkins was the first Supermarket grocery store owner, he owned the largest grocery store of his time, he got rich from being a pioneer of gasoline production, asphalt for the roads, road promoter, railroad pioneer, Major shareholder in Standard oil partner with with Rockefeller because of the gasoline.

These millionaires leave these properties for so many reasons. It's such a shame some of these properties can't be turned into museums. There absolutely beautiful.

I just toured Meadowbrook Hall, the home of John Dodges widow. Then Gauklers Point, the home of Edsel Ford here in the Detroit area. Fortunately the families left the homes as museums, both well endowed and meticulously maintained. Hopefully someone can find some purpose for this home and be able to let the public view them!

Kyle, looks like you have become another Horace Trumbauer fan ...same here..We have some astounding properties around the Philadelphia area!!! My heart is broken over the destruction of Whitemarsh Hall in Springfield,Montgomery Co.....the most beautiful of all his designs!!!!

I aree Gina there is such sadness and at such beauty in this and other places that area left in the past. I am so glad this had not been abandoned long, so I do hope something is done to keep this place as it was. I am not familair with this area, so I was curious are these places close to town? I am wondering how to tie it into the area for help. You would think some of the millionaires there today would want to live in a place like this. I do not get it. Thanks for showing the public.

Awesome channel man! Filming and editing is on point 😊

Its so beautiful,it was made for me actually!If i was build a house to me truly would be like that one!

Kyle...so glad you are showing Horace Traumbauers great designs!!! I grew up out in Oreland...use to drive to another Horace mansion as a teenager...gone now! Was once the largest home in America...more beautiful than the White House. Check out the private FB group...Fans of Whitemarsh Hall ....steeped with the history of Wm. Stitesbury’s Mansion!!!! I like your explorations .....makes me homesick for Philadelphia!!!!

wow what a wonderful house! I would become a Lady of the night to live there! I would skate on 8 just to get from room to room! What is that long part in the back of the house? It looks like to that it was added on.

Magnificent! It's so Grand and in great shape! Love the drone video it's so massive! I rave over your captions of history. Your the best! I wouldn't want to live there though. I'd get lost n can you imagine the cost of running it! Wouldn't mind staying for a weekend. Once again an amazing magnificent find! 👍 "Hey" from Nevada!!!

Take a group of investors pool their money to restore and maintain the property like they do at the Hearst Castle in California and the Biltmore Home in NC. They maintain it through tours, you can take so many tours on different parts of the estate. It's a great way to save these property for future generations.

Maybe putting out visors like this might interest people who might be interested in buying it and other homes. It's a shame no one lives in them. Too beautiful to let go.

This place reminds me of some of the Vanderbilt homes, in particular Marble House and The Breakers. I don't know what i would do to stay in a place like this. But it would be nice to have a two week visit.

Man I wish that I could move me and my family into this beautiful and awesome sight of a mansion and just live there in a beautiful piece of history and I wouldn't change a thing to this place and at least once a month open to the public to a certain part of the place to let them see n feel the history of the place.and let them know about mr.Elkins and a little bit of the place n history for sure!

I'd love to live in that house I give anything in this world to be there.I've heard about the house a long time ago I've always wanted to see it. Thank you so much for filming this one what type of drone are you using? Cuz it takes some really great footage. It's nice to see a home that has so much history that is not all torn apart like so many others but like you've said is this one hasn't been empty for a very long time.I really hope that they do do something with this house that everybody can enjoy it.

These type of home must be saved, for next generations, history, etc. I would love to live in that house, just wishes and dreams, growing up in Pgh, not far from millionaires row. What a pity if this house is ever taken and demolished. Stop to think of all the people who came and gone to visit the Elkins family, wearing the spats, suits, hats, women wearing the long dresses and carrying the ruffled umbrellas, the gardens all in bloom, what a historic home.

Amazing! They let you inside??? What a fun thing you guys are doing. Love your videos!

Thank you. I enjoy watch abandoned video really enjoy yours because you give the history.

Wow!! Some of these homes are so Grand, and so Beautiful !! How was tho to see them just deteriorating with time , 😭 ... Can just imagine how they look in their Glory Days !!

Elkins Park PA has some beautiful architecture by Trumbauer, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc. Another fantastic video, and love the research and history provided; this, along w/drone shots, gives your videos an edge that others lack. Thanks.

Wow just looking at the background of William Ekins, and he started with nothing. I find it strange.... but I get motivated by these videos. Not that I would ever want to own a home that size, but to create a Facility like such for a purpose would be the Dream!

Your videos never disappointment me , thank you . Yes I'd live in this house in a heart beat. Thank you for always doing your homework.

I lived in Montgomery County (Oreland) as a kid and never knew this existed. Awesome video, love how you give the history of the place. Just Subscribed.

This video was excellent with a lot of great factual information, the music was also perfect for this video.

I thoroughly enjoyed your lovely visuals and history. I would move in in a split second, and run it as a house in its own period, complete with servants and my Husband and I as the host and hostess. Guests would purchase a holiday package and slide back to the era in which this estate was built. They would be in a full immersion, dressing for dinner and taking up the enjoyments and pass-times of the time. Of course....staff and the host/ess would be in residence full time, and arrangements could be made for Weddings and other special events. It would not be inexpensive to reserve a visit, but wardrobe and a Lady’s maid and valet would see to the needs of the guests for the duration. That could be so much fun.....there would be no cell phones or computers permitted in the public areas to spoil the sense of being out of time and modern societal pace. Thank you for showing this, and for asking how I would live in it. 🖤🇨🇦

WOW!! Just STUNNING, BEAUTIFUL wish it was mine.. Nice video thanks for showing us such an awesome place!!👍👍 To bad we couldnt see the inside....😞😟

I like it it looks awesome

Wish you could go in, just beautiful! Yes would live here.

Residences John H. Watt house, Wayne, PA (1893). Lynnewood Hall (Peter A. B. Widener mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1897-1900). Edward B. Seymour House (1891) John H. Watt house ("Tower House"), Wayne, Pennsylvania (1893). Part of Wendell & Smith's Wayne Estate development. Grey Towers Castle (William Welsh Harrison mansion), Glenside, PA (1893-94) Chelten House (George W. Elkins mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1896, rebuilt 1909)[2] Lynnewood Hall (Peter A. B. Widener mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1897-1900) John C. Bell House, Rittenhouse Square (1906) Elstowe Manor (William L. Elkins mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1898) Edward C. Knight townhouse, 1629 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA (1902) Georgian Terrace (George F. Tyler mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1905) (now Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, Temple University) Isle Field (mansion), Villanova, PA (1911) (now offices of Agnes Irwin School) Ardrossan, Radnor, PA (1913)[3] Bloomfield, Villanova, PA [4] Whitemarsh Hall (Edward T. Stotesbury mansion), Wyndmoor, PA (1916-21, demolished 1980) Ronaele Manor (Fitz Eugene Dixon mansion), Elkins Park, PA (1923-26, demolished 1974).[3][4][5] Mrs. Dixon was Eleanor Widener; the mansion's name is hers spelled backward. LaSalle College Christian Brothers owned the mansion 1950-74, renaming it Anselm Hall.[6] Woodcrest, 610 King of Prussia Rd. Radnor Township, PA (1907) 141 Pelham Rd., W. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, PA (source: Germantown Historical Society) 209 Pelham Rd., W. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, PA (source: Germantown Historical Society) Katherine Craig Wright Muckl Mansion, 11 Coopertown Rd, Haverford, PA (1926). [7] Woodburne Mansion, Darby, PA

Im so happy to have found your channel. I love the way you put in clips about the history of these places. This mansion looks like many buildings in my state. (New Jersey)

What a Dream just makes me want to Cry because its so Beautiful Guessi,ll never know how would fill to live in such Beauty thank,s Guys Awesome

Majestic amazing home ! Thanks for showing it loved it ❤️👍🏻

Omg! I wanna live there too!

You guys do awesome work finding these gilded age mansions, this particular one would of been nice if you guys had some interior pictures or live film, of the interior.Good views with the drone if you guys used one to hover over the estate grounds.

That house is enormous. Great vid Kyle.

awesome video kyle--Love all this stuff from the past--its like a super passion with me--the way you feel strongly about it-I do to-I would definately live there as is because its so fascinating to know that house has been there so long and yopur actually looking at it-sometimes I think it would be kinda neat to live back in the mansion during its hay day-awesome! awesome!!

It would be awesome to be able to go inside that Mansion, I would stay in there as is.....I would bring my family with me and turn the electric on

Whoa...........Amazing.

FABULOUS STATELY HOME.... BEAUTIFUL,

I would live there..it's breath taking

INSANE Gorgeous!!!!!!!!

All I can say is WOW! What an amazing place! I noticed the architect is the same one as the arson/fraud house. The front gate is awesome! Good job Kyle!