That hidden room with no entrance other than a punched hole in the dry wall was cool - and creepy! Listing link: www.zillow.com/homedetails/1881-Oak-Mountain-Rd-Shiloh-GA-31826/105294190_zpid/ Channel Donations: www.paypal.me/rwrightphotography Follow me on my old farm: ru-vid.com/show-UC56vh2L-M0czmoTRLhSMaxg eBay Shop: ebay.com/usr/sidestep-adventures-official Join The Official Sidestep Adventures Fan Group: facebook.com/groups/561758371276581/?ref=share_group_link Support us on Patreon: Patreon.com/SidestepAdventures Mail: Sidestep Adventures PO BOX 206 Waverly Hall, Georgia 31831
Back about 1980, 43 years ago, the state had a program to assist the elderly with home repair. My wife's Uncle John's old house was built sometime back in the early 1800s. I think 1848. Seeing the attic in that old house and the mud dobber remnant on the rafter remained me of his home. When they showed up, the attic was full of mud dobber nest. It took over a week to remove one and a half tons of mud from his attic. We really miss John. He was a character.
Wow! Such a cool house, and only $114,900!! Here in British Columbia we can’t buy a mobile house in a trailer park for under $200,00. Time to pack up the dogs and move south lol I would love to see someone buy that house and make it a home once again.
I'm a New Englander... my house is 120 years old and there are houses dating back to 1760 in the neighborhood. I guess age is very regional indeed! As someone who enjoys history I also try to envision things as they once were from remaining clues, and I enjoy watching you do same.
What a great old house! Someone, I hope, is going to enjoy living in it. I would love to live in the last remains of a town full of forgotten history. I'm weird that way, I guess. So much to explore and learn!
We have in our 1880s Farmette a Hidden Bedroom too that you can only access through a small tiny door...The room is Huge and it's filled with old Military stuff and it had some Gorgeous Antique Carved Wooden Beds that I personally got out and gave them All away...
IT WOULD BE REAL NICE IF SOMEONE WITH THE MONEY TO DO IT ,COULD FIND THE PLAINS FOR THIS HOUSE AND RESTORE IT BACK TO IT’S ORIGINAL LOOK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE .
I am from WI and a couple I know always dreamed of buying this old farmhouse they saw riding the school bus as k8ds. The people died and they bought it. The house wasn't in good enough shape to rehab it, they found the plans and rebuilt it with the original way with modern updates
@John Last name If you don't think that it costs anything to repair an old house, you have not done one lately. I saw blue sky from the attic, We have done many in my lifetime and where we started with the roof and moved down. Have you priced a 2 X 4 or a 2 X 6 lately? Frankly, I loved this house. I am now 76 years old and I wouldn't tackle this for anything but you need to get with the times. 2023 times, I don't mean to be ugly to you but you need to understand today's prices are outrageous.
Great tour! Seems to be in pretty good shape. Discovering the changes over the years is always fun. The fireplaces were usually the first to go when a "new" heating method came along. Out with the old and in with the new! Now we all want the old to be in! 😊👍👍
It could of originally been what is called a Dog Trod house . The kitchen and dining are on one side the bedrooms and living room on the other and a porch in the middle . There were two separate entrances to each side . Just a thought
Considering the age of the house it has stood up pretty well over time. I hope someone comes along who can restore it as much as possible .Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
I'd want a structural engineer to inspect the house for any and all repairs to the foundation and interior walls. Those fireplace mantels should be taken out of the crawl space and installed back in the house. This house will require lots of major work done to it to include possibly a whole new roof. Everything needs to be updated and replaced with wiring & plumbing. All this needs to be taken into consideration with respect to the asking price. With all this done though you could have a very nice place to live.
How interesting n a bit confusing with this house. I liked it especially the porch. It would be great if someone would buy it n try to bring it back to its original plan. It was confusing as you walked around looking at the bedrooms n so on. Looks like it’s on a nice piece of property n rather large too. Im sure that there’s wooden floors as you could see from under the house. It would break a bit of my heart if no one buys it n they end up tearing it down. The younger generations today don’t give a dang about a part of history. This house has a history n it needs to be told n saved. Thanks Robert for a great video. ♥️😊👍👍👍👍🌟 PS. If I hadn’t promised my house to my son I’d sell it n move to Georgia. I always wanted to live there. ♥️
In old southern homes sometimes the kitchen was like a separate house with a covered breezeway (under a common roof for the whole house) between the kitchen ‘house’ and the rest of the house. This was done as a fire precaution in case of a fire in the kitchen. From the attic tour that is what this house appears to have.
Very interesting that both you & Brian chose to post old-house tours up for sale, on the same day!---True to form, gotta check out the attic and crawl space!---I'm hoping to check out the listing to see how fast it sells! Very kool!
The kitchen was not in the house but was attached by floor and porch. This was to keep the home cooler. My son lives in a home that the porch is in a L shape. The porch goes across the main back of the house, the porch turns to go beside the house and the original kitchen is across the porch. The porch continues on the side of the kitchen. The home has been remodeled and the kitchen and bathroom has been added inside the back of the original house. The old kitchen is being used for storage purposes.
Very cool. But I've said this before. I find the farmhouses down there to be very strange, compared to what I'm used to up here in NJ. Ours are two story, wood or brick, either side hall or center hall, and with basements. My grandfather's farmhouse was built around 1900 and had a side hall with the living room next to the hall. It had a pretty high-pitch roof, so the attic was huge. The stairway to it was in the bedroom above the dining room, and was a full-size staircase, but fully enclosed. The basement was smaller than the footprint of the house, indicating that it replaced an earlier house. I shared pictures of that house with Walter, a while back. So maybe he'll share them with you. Anyway, hopefully the new buyer will be interested in history, and make that place really nice.
How cool that those mantles are still there. I hope you get a commission for selling this house! I need to go up in my attic. Haven't been there for 20 years.
This place is so beautiful. I love old houses … I lived in one in Blair County here in Pennsylvania, ( a good 156 years old ) for most of my teenage life. The Italianate was I believe built by a German architect by the name of Andrew Meyers , the man built a lot of the homes on our block . I love seeing the alcoved ceilings and the seams where the old meets new . .
Hi Robert 👋 you could make something really great of the house nice layout inside I hope some one buys it up all the best Andrew south wales uk 👍 👌 😀 🇬🇧
There was an old house being renovated in Pennsylvania in the 1990s. The contractors were finishing up the house when one of the helpers accidentally put the ladder through the wall. They stuck their flashlights through the wall and saw circles on the far wall with things in them. After getting the owners permission to tear down the wall, they entered the room and realized cans lined the back wall and there were envelopes inside. They blew off the dust and saw the envelopes were addressed to soldiers. The old house was being used as a post office during the Civil War. Most of the letters were delivered to the ancestors of the soldiers. The rest were donated to the Civil War museum. Someone I worked with had told me this story. He was the contractor who was working on the house.
Robert, your like me. I like to poke around attics and basements. By the way, even though I was born and lived most of my life in Atlanta, I did live in Columbus for 14 years. Went to Columbus high school. I have always loved your channel.
Have you been to Dug Gap Mountain. It has some cool Civil War fortifications. Their are some less known about fortifications near there just off the Pinhoti Trail just over the other side of the mountain. There is an old grave there as well.
You're looking at a money pit in this old place! Even if you had all of the skills to rehabilitate the place yourself, it would take lots of cash to buy all the materials needed to restore this old puzzle. My hat is off to anyone willing to take on this project!
I certainly do enjoy watching your videos, you have such a passion for preserving what is old. I do have to ask you one question that I would appreciate an answer on. Who are all the folks at the end of your videos. You always have an in memoriam, that would in my estimation make those people very special or dear to you, am I correct? Thank you for your answer, be well, be safe
OMG, That one fireplace mantle, [ in what I am calling the green room ] is almost the same as the one we have here in our home, same sort of art deco style . except our " blocks" on either side are a bit longer. that poor house, looks like a whole lot of rooms and none of them make much sense, just a bunch of rooms added. Would love to see it stripped down and made back into what it used to be Originally, and reopen that one section of walled off storage space, and use that again. right now the house is really chopped up. would love seeing the original floors. nice piece of property just needs a clean up, and taken care off..
Most likely the house was two sections. And then joined together. It was common to have the kitchen separate from the main house. Since the most likely location for a fire was the cooking area. This way the main section of the house could be saved from a fire. Also in a lot of the older houses you could see a steel loop stick out of the side of the chimney. This was so if there was a chimney fire, you could pull the chimney away from the house. Saving the main building.
when you think of a 122yr old house you would think charming, but the updates have made this house just feel like a normal house and not a old old one.
looking at the siding there where the blocked-off storage area is, it looks like the original siding may have had a Creasote finish. the heat over the years would have broken down the creosote and would have evaporated.
Seems crazy to close off perfectly good storage space! Who wouldn’t want a pantry? Such a shame someone replaced the original windows with vinyl ones instead of restoring them. New windows are expensive and not actually more efficient.
The two walls facing each other in the attic? Most likely that house was originally built with the kitchen separate from the main house. And there might have been a breezeway added between the 2 at some time to connect the rooms. Houses were built with kitchens separate back then in case of fire in the kitchen so you wouldnt lose the whole house.
The home I grew up in didn't originally have a kitchen or bath. Added later and just put a flat roof over it. The they probably cooked in the living area. By the time mom and dad bought it the kitchen and bath were there.
All you need for an old house is lots of $$$$$$$. You are looking at $200K putting it back to original with the modern conveniences. We have done many of these. When you take out the old HVAC and use split systems you have real attic access without the ducts.
The odd section could have been where the original kitchen was separated from the rest of the house. A lot of really old houses had the kitchen separate from the main house!
