Historic Home Basement Tour - Loch Aerie (AKA Lockwood Mansion) 

My guess, based on the age of the mansion, is that the large brick-lined room under the ground with a cupola on top was an ice house, where blocks of ice were stored for use all through the year. Thanks for the great peeks inside the Lockwood Mansion!

The basement is the original kitchen to where the servants cooked for the house and the servants work areas. There should be an ice room, dry storage room, wine cellar, silver storage room, dry pantry, laundry area and usually a bathroom and the one room looked like a coal storage area (coal shoots on the ground). In the older days, they used basements as work areas and where the main kitchen usually was for the home if it had servants. The footman and ladies maids are who brought up the food to the dinning room etc. It's not like today where we all throw and toss our old stuff into our basements and forget about it.. that's what their attics were used for... Did the home have any sort of attic space?

That's one of the most amazing basements I've ever seen!

I love Historic houses . I grew up in an Italianate style Civil War home . I believe it was built by Andrew Meyer , an architectural genius from Germany. When I was 18 my dad took a transfer towards Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Then I learned how to survive in a more modern home, not as interesting. Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania is full of cool historic homes. Thank you for sharing your basement tour of Loch Aerie . Those old basements are sooo cool .

Thanks for the videos. Glen Lock will always have a special place in my heart. My grandfather was the Station Master and Postmaster at the Glen Loch train station. My mother was good friends with the Lockwood sisters when she was growing up. I actually got to go to a dinner party hosted by Tony Alden (something around '80 as I recall), and saw some of his restoration in progress. It is such a shame that the surrounding landscape was so callously destroyed.

Please do the rest of the house to. This is amazing.

What do you think? That little storage area with the red cupola sitting on the ground with the vents in it, is a storage place for pickled goods, like for example when you make sarma, uh, what's it called in English? Cabbage rolls! You need to pack a bunch of cabbage heads into wooden barrels and put a wooden lid on top of the cabbages to keep them under the salty liquid, and that needs to be in an area that's cool and has ventilation because it gets stinky while it ferments for a few weeks or months. People these days put it in their garage. So that would be an example of a storage place for sauerkraut and those type of foods that need fermenting. Also, it may have been a smoke room. My father had built a little smoke room in the back of the garage where it was made of blocks of brick on the inside and red brick on the outside, with vents inside on the top just below the roof, and there were rods to hang the meat on and on the ground was a little block oven where the smoke would come from. So maybe it could also have been used to smoke meat and make sausages to dry.

I live in the area and often wondered about this house too. Thanks for 2 videos done very well!

Thank you for both of the videos you made documenting this interesting home. The extensive basement areas makes me think of the Studebaker Mansion (Tippecanoe Place) in South Bend, IN. Mr. Studebaker had an underground bowling alley, fishing pond, & stable. He also had underground passages for his carriage between work, the bank, & his daughter's home...Amazing the ingenuity of these people.

He mentioned in separate video that there was a man-made pond close to the house. That would have been used to freeze water in wooden blocks during the winter months. A well made ice cellar could keep ice right the way through summer. And that cellar looks extremely well made. I sincerely doubt any animals were kept in that lower level of the house. Most certainly would have been a very beautiful expensive Victorian kitchen. One can only imagine. Other people here have written an impressive description of all that would have been involved.

Good news everyone someone had just bought this house already that to save everything possible can be that to fix it fix it up but however there's some damage that are out for the roof detailing the floor and the woods that are the I-beam saponi that the floors is the house the starter is everything so watch on the next video that are of if you do find it that you know

I hope this once stunning home found some caring people who took it back to its former glory

So I just subscribed to your channel and went to watch other videos..unfortunately there weren't many and looks like you aren't posting anymore 😢 Really enjoyed watching your 1st few.. Hopefully you will consider doing more😊

Thanks for taking us on this tour. I get so frustrated with Pinterest, where you see something really interesting, but when you click on it it only tells you who posted it, no details---and often not even what it is, where it is, or anything you can Google. As always, I think it's a damn shame that something wasn't, isn't, and won't be done to preserve its beauty.

Please take a broom to all those leaves and debris!!!!!! That drove me nuts, seeing you walk through it.

Very interesting- giant root cellar?

What are they going to do to the house now.?

built or REbuilt after mud flood?)

@1:29 is that a noose hanging from the ceiling???😧

Sad that house has come to such a state. Btw it's pronounced coopula. Coop as in poop not Quepula....

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