Is This the Strangest House in America? (Lapham-Patterson House)

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Explore the bizarre and intriguing Lapham-Patterson House in Georgia, a home designed with over 70 fire escapes and intentionally asymmetrical features. Discover the history behind its creation, linked to the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Join Ken as he takes you on a tour of one of the strangest homes ever encountered, unraveling the story of its eccentric owner and the unique architectural choices.
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@vickiephilpitt7697 23 дня назад

The only oddness I thought about was building the house out of the same materials that basically caused "the night Chicago died." Also, committing his two children to an asylum kinda of makes me wonder about Lapham's own state of mind. It's ironic that his wife died in a fire after living in a house that had so many fire escapes, and probably none in the one she lived in.

@johnmiller8975 23 дня назад

Read the Yellow wallpaper

@WorthyistheLambRev1 21 день назад

The stories of the fires are BS! The Old World and the Dark Ages was the Millennial Reign of Christ. When Satan was loosed again to deceive for a short season, Revelation,20, they began burning the buildings down. And defacing them in the World's Fairs, etc. @@johnmiller8975

@WorthyistheLambRev1 21 день назад

Everyone left behind from the Millennial Reign of Christ were put into castles and things repurposed as mental institutions! To make them forget. The Saints went to the Camp of the Saints, North, with Christ. Mount Zion. Magnetic North. Northern lights. They are planning a war against them.

@karenolson4000 20 дней назад

This comment exactly mirrors my own thoughts -- one child died and the other two were committed to an insane asylum. Wow! Red flags abound with this story.

@debbie4220 10 дней назад

Committed the children??!! How evil of them! The mother agreed to this!! How horrific!! God, was too kind! He took the mother in a fire. 😮

@SpanishEclectic 23 дня назад

Oh my goodness! What a sad family story. The wood interior rooms are beautiful, as are the balconies and gingerbread on the exterior. That central room with the staircase and the angled wall boards is quite stunning.

@SandyToes75 23 дня назад

The asymmetrical design is so interesting. Thank you for this unusual find. The ladies parlor is my favorite. I can imagine having a book club in that space.

@amyjones8114 22 дня назад

Doesn’t almost seem like the wood patterns mimic fire flames?

@kjlmark6 22 дня назад

I love natural light so my favorite thing about this house are the large windows that extend to the floor. I'd never heard of this house before, thanks for a very interesting tour!👍

@janncoons7445 23 дня назад

It's a strange coincidence that she died in a fire in her new house. According to Poirot there are no coincidences

@brennanarmacost1762 10 дней назад

A lot of women died, due to their skirt catching on fire. You're right, it's a conspiracy.

@MegaMisfit138 7 дней назад

When you fear something so bad, it consumes your mind, and the universe gives you what you think about. It's called the law of attraction.

@kathleensullivan4547 6 дней назад

It's written in the Bible, don't know who poirot is but he is plagiarizing the written word. There's also no such thing as luck but interesting is that it's written that there IS such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time ❤

@kathleensullivan4547 6 дней назад

He murdered his wife, stole the fortune and conveniently had the children locked away forever in an asylum...

@deadparrot5953 6 дней назад

@kathleensullivan4547 Poirot is a fictional detective, created by the writer Agatha Christie.

@badbiker666 23 дня назад

Seriously? Dude was so affected by the Chicago fire that he commissions a house with 24 fire escapes but builds it out of wood? I would have been looking into poured concrete, tamped Earth, or steel construction.

@judsonclayto7813 23 дня назад

Tamped earth maybe… I don’t think that concrete mixing trucks or much steel was available to purchase in Thomasville back in 1885. Plenty of pine trees and quick fire exits were affordable…

@bethshadid2087 11 дней назад

Better to have used rock and brick

@pcno2832 7 дней назад

@@judsonclayto7813 Concrete houses were just around the corner, with Edison pushing them in the early 1900s, but it would have been tough to pull off in Georgia in 1885. There are all kinds of ways to fireproof a wooden house, from brick or stucco siding, to more plaster in the interior, to fireproof insulation in the balloon-frame walls. But it seems he was more concerned with escaping, which is also a priority. One cheap way to make any window a fire escape is to just keep a chain ladder in each bedroom, but more people don't want to think about such things.

@rosepelzel4244 23 дня назад

What an incredibly odd manifest story! Wow! Very, very sad!

@larsonfamilyhouse 23 дня назад

I think you mean m*rder story lol

@tanyamessimer6731 23 дня назад

I love the quirkiness and I love the windows. Beautiful!!

@vivaldi1948 23 дня назад

I love this house. Always been a fan of asymmetry. It was so sad that his wife ended up dying in a fire. That must have haunted him.

@sibun7153 23 дня назад

I wonder if anyone thought it suspicious.

@edie4321 14 дней назад

Or he did it. He had his kids committed to an asylum.

@susanfudge1737 17 дней назад

This house is on Dawson Street. It's full of beautiful old homes, Victorian and Greek Revival. I grew up a few blocks away. In high school, we studied Thomasville history in the gifted history class. Thomasville has an interesting history. My grandfather managed Greenwood Plantation so my mom grew up there. She met Eisenhower, Fred Astaire, Jackie Kennedy. I did think this house was a National Historic Site.

@jenpink4298 23 дня назад

Wow, such a sad story but such an interesting house!

@randyboglisch137 23 дня назад

Beautiful wonderful quirky creative Victorian house. Absolutely fabulous mansion

@joantrainor6584 23 дня назад

Fire is one reason for brick homes. We feel safer having one.

@lmboh8585 23 дня назад

Beautiful fanciful house, such a sad story of its creation though. I agree with those that believe the original owner suffered from PTSD due to his having lived through the Great Chicago Fire. Thank you for this very interesting family's house's story.

@aronc24 23 дня назад

I need a season of American Horror Story filmed here. Lol

@larsonfamilyhouse 23 дня назад

I immediately thought of the guy that torched the murder house in season one. I wonder if that was based on this guy since he torched her new house.

@tennesseerose6400 7 дней назад

Yes' the witches ❤

@jadedrealist 20 дней назад

Wait... so his ex-wife left the fire-safe house only to die in a fire? That's Alanis Morriset level ironic.

@ItsMeCoffee 13 часов назад

😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤ whole new verse ….. that song lives as they say rent free in my head and my daughter ❤

@sharksport01 23 дня назад

When i was a small child I heard a realtor describe that exterior fussy trim as cheesecake. I was a teenager before I realized she meant gingerbread.

@marciafallon7653 22 дня назад

lol!

@garryferrington811 22 дня назад

Cheesecake? 😄 You should have asked Ken.

@maryklenewski7190 23 дня назад

I like the house and the ability to escape.

@garygloska7396 23 дня назад

Sad story but love the house

@larsonfamilyhouse 23 дня назад

A kerosene lamp fire… sounds like something the guy obsessed with fire would say/do. He was mad she left and torched her new place. “See how she lives her new place with no fire escapes now, she never should have left me or my house!”

@edie4321 14 дней назад

I thought the same. There are no coincidences.

@sylviajones4907 12 дней назад

And before that, HE traveled on HER $$$$ while she stayed home pregnant with their 2nd baby. The jerk!

@tootsiequilt 10 дней назад

I thought the same thing also. Very weird that a man obsessed with dying in a fire, has a wife who died in a fire AFTER leaving him.

@tinynina76 8 дней назад

Gorgeous house! I would like to have seen the kitchen, though!

@donnakennedyadams6315 23 дня назад

I was hoping that this video would be about the Ace of Clubs house in Texarkana. Don't worry, you didn't disappoint me. This house was interesting too

@megfuchs9425 23 дня назад

I absolutely love houses like this!

@janedee6488 23 дня назад

Love it. All the windows give it a light and airy feeling.

@caroleinwv 23 дня назад

Very interesting! Thank you!

@CenturyHomeProject 23 дня назад

I live in Albany, Georgia. We travel to Thomasville all the time. It's gorgeous there.

@peterlarsen7779 22 дня назад

I love the overall look and design of the house despite the quirkiness of all the fire escapes and asymmetrical design 🥰🥰🥰

@donnatamez7394 13 дней назад

So cool with the stairs over the fireplace and a lot of exciting contrast in the woodwork. Yet, the other rooms seem tranquil and restful. The designer was a true artist. Thank you for sharing.

@steelman86 23 дня назад

There was a lot of beautiful craftsmanship in this house! BEAUTIFUL....

@susanbutler2542 23 дня назад

Good morning thank you for the great story and information. Love old houses.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@GratitudeGriot 18 дней назад

the irony of dying in a house fire after living in a home like this!! the windows are stunning. i love th floor to ceiling bay windows! they let in so much light

@cathcolwell2197 23 дня назад

A lot of unfortunate unhappiness in just a decade - the children being committed, the wife dying during a fire. And she lost her fortune. What a mess

@kbusby4824 23 дня назад

Been though Thomasville on a number of occasions. Sadly, I was not aware of this house. Otherwise, I would have taken the tour. There really are some architectural gems in the deep south.

@user-jy2vd2em6v 8 дней назад

If I had money I would buy this in a heartbeat!! It is absolutely gorgeous!!

@judsonclayto7813 23 дня назад

Definitely worth visiting if you’re nearby…

@amyjones8114 22 дня назад

So cool, Ken! Never heard of this house!

@BORN-to-Run 23 дня назад

This is one of the most BEAUTIFUL homes I've ever seen! GEORGEOUS! I LOVE the odd-shaped rooms...I LOVE all the windows and doors... It's just REGAL! What a shame they didn't have descendants to enjoy this inheritance. WHY did they have their children committed to an insane assylum? And how old were they? And whatever became of them? What a heart-breaking ending. He may have been better-off dying in the fire!

@lizlittle1641 23 дня назад

It's very interesting. A little overkill, but I think it would be good to have ways to escape in a fire.

@aunt_shoe 12 дней назад

I was shocked by the thumbnail because I recognized this house instantly. My great grandfather was a Patterson and although he didn't live in the house, he would visit it frequently. I've been in the house countless times myself, but only after the state converted it into a museum.

@jill-ti7oe 22 дня назад

Beautifully crafted and a deliciously capricious design.

@jillburton6041 20 дней назад

Thank you for showing us this house and its story.

@SkitSkat674 6 дней назад

What a beautiful house. I think the design was ingeneous.

@nymalous3428 18 дней назад

Fascinating. I'll have to visit it sometime, looks neat.

@PhillBogart 23 дня назад

While the Lapham-Patterson House is definitly odd, it's still nowhere near as bizarre as the Winchester Mystery House.

@katiemoyer8679 23 дня назад

What could justify children of the very rich\h being sent to an asylum? Could they not Buy personal care at the Huge home? The parents should have gone to the asylum. . The kids suffered the punishment for the parents imbalance. He wrecked a fortune in 10 years. ‼️. Then the wife died of his biggest fear after she left him. 🤦🏻‍♀️. Anything sus here ❓🤔

@deinos9661 23 дня назад

I agree. Sounds like a great thriller movie premise though.

@vivaldi1948 23 дня назад

Back then if a child had a developmental disorder it was thought that the best thing you could do was to institutionalize them. According to the professionals, they could have 24 hour and be surrounded by people with a similar condition. The parents trusted what the doctors told them. This happened in my family.

@katiemoyer8679 23 дня назад

@@vivaldi1948 , bs, this route was a social solution for the rich. (They likely said it was a boarding school. ) It Happened that way cuz they chose &paid for that solution. Nevertheless, they unloved their kids by sending them off ….pretty much & no matter What the issue. It didn’t really cost em, they used ancestral $. They could afford the social MASK at their descendants expense. No 🩷 in it. This was a “solution” for. …Any medical conditions. ❓. A solution that cured nothing and encapsulates the afflicted into a rigid foreign environment while being shunned by those that were Supposed to love them. As long as those “asylums” kept the patient alive, the $ kept coming.

@rememberthis8795 3 дня назад

I grew up near Thomasville and have toured the house a few times. The small window on the front of the house on the third floor is said to cast a weird shape on the floor at a certain time or two in the year at night. Something occult about that and somehow it tied into the rooms being 6 sided or not rectangular. Thomasville has a rich history of old homes and the ‘Big Oak’ that are all a must see when in T’Ville.

@oldworldchris4187 23 дня назад

Interesting place!

@clintcountryman4849 23 дня назад

Love it!

@robinhumphrey2692 23 дня назад

I love it! !!!

@foxopossum 20 дней назад

Wow! What a tale. And what an incredible house! I love that it’s asymmetrical. Normally that would drive me a bit mad but as I have gotten older I appreciate things that aren’t “perfect” way more than the symmetric perfectly matched things of the world.

@maryjanemcneill7058 21 день назад

I live in Thomasville and have toured this house many times. Not only is it open for tours, but you can now spend the night there!

@nancyomalley6286 19 дней назад

I was going to say that it would make a great Bed & Breakfast

@user-jk2hb5qq8r 16 дней назад

I think its amazing! The house and the story. He did have a strong fear of fire, and wanted a way put, even if he had to break something by jumping from high places!!😮

@watchingthewheelsgoround260 8 дней назад

It’s interesting and the history behind it is very understandable.

@wildfireintexas 23 дня назад

What a tragic story. I hope the two surviving children got some peace as adults. Some of the rooms weren’t too bad but that dining would have given me constant indigestion.

@mattbosley3531 5 дней назад

The house itself looks beautiful and unique. The family's story is tragic. I feel particularly sorry for the children.

@marciafallon7653 22 дня назад

What a beautiful house! I love every room, but especially the dining room. But such a sad family story. It’s impossible to imagine the state of mind the couple was in. That they committed their two children to an insane asylum is horrific. And that she died trapped in a fire is too bazaar!

@trinasyoutube 20 дней назад

Loved the stained glass & wood floors.

@mikenixon2401 23 дня назад

I always (well since I heard of it) wanted to see this house. It's kind of the ultimate fun house at the state fair. Do they still have county and state fairs? Great design. Thanks for the tour, Ken.

@susanfudge1737 17 дней назад

Thomasville still has a fair in the fall. It's a traveling carnival but all the local competitions are there as well. Georgia has a state fair in Perry in October. It's a huge disappointment.

@StamperWendy 23 дня назад

Missing front pillars, too many false fronts, off-center fireplace, etc, even I noticed it! It sounds like she should've stayed living there, with all those ways to escape! 🤦🏻‍♀️

@gwenaguilar7049 3 дня назад

Considering he has lofty ambitions with his wife's money makes you realize he got what he deserved. Sad for his wife and kids. What a horrible person. The house is so interesting it would be great to tour.

@averydebrouwer-leslie1673 11 дней назад

It's beautiful, i think its wonder. I like the fretwork decoration outside

@user-is4gb2jf1x 23 дня назад

This is an absolutely fantastic house however, such a sad story that lead to its creation

@nanasewdear 23 дня назад

Fascinating! The rainbow-hued windows are so cheerful!

@goatladygletha792 23 дня назад

I have seen this house. I toured it with some friends in the late 90s.

@lindaalexander9271 9 дней назад

Beautiful. So much light because of all those windows and doors. Not like the houses built in the same period that are dark and “closed in.”

@susanfarley1332 10 дней назад

I lived with my grandmother in Georgia for years. One day she took us to a weird old house, I'm not sure whether it was in Georgia or the panhandle of Florida. It was fascinating. There was a room upstairs, that at certain times of the year, when the sun shone in the front window the ginger read outside would cast shadows and shapes of light on the floor in the shape of moons and stars. I don't remember any fire escapes. And it was in Thomasville. Ah, so the big windows are considered fire escapes. Didn't know that while looking at the house. They also didn't tell us about his wife or the kids.

@Mowersaw29 19 дней назад

What a amazing house how proud would you be to build it.This is by far my favorite house. 😊

@huntlife 23 дня назад

Beautiful wood work. Loved round rooms, especially guest room. Guy wanted escape hatch, huh?

@cherylpalian3254 8 дней назад

Love that house. So unique

@pameladulany1457 21 день назад

The whole house was weird. Afraid of fire yet Soo much wood on it and in it.

@user-sg6ji2kk3u 23 дня назад

What I liked was the furnishings of the bedroom’s but many of the rooms were oddly shaped . Otherwise this house was colourful in yellow paint making it cheery and bright in a good way . Certainly many windows also .

@ceceehawkins9813 22 дня назад

Amazing how history can affect the architecture!

@linhdasagen6498 21 день назад

This house is,gorgeous

@Gryphonisle 12 дней назад

Balloon frame construction is what allowed Victorians to be so ornate, as they were (compared to post and beam) so cheap to build. They are not particularly susceptible to fire but one aspect of early versions did allow fire to spread. Those houses were built walls first and floors inserted into the vertical frame. Flames could travel between floors. A later modification had floors built first, walls raised next, then capped off by the next floor. This not only sped up construction but prevented flames from burning up the walls from floor to floor.

@kimhall5863 22 дня назад

What a sad story about the family😔 But loved the house and all those tall windows!

@autumnfeldpausch5539 23 дня назад

While things are offset and odd the way they did it, the color schemes softened the harshness of it all. And the abundance of windows helped also..all the natural light with the trees around or near house helped. I actually like it. Now I wonder about my home and other places I’ve rented with the bottom of the windows near the floor if they were actually for easier escape? I was always afraid my kids crashing into them and falling. (However my middle child slammed her head and hand into a bedroom window that was 4’ from the floor. How ironic was that?)

@maricruzgarcia7346 10 дней назад

I do agree that a house looks like like the Winchester mystery House but it also looks like the homes you saw on fantasy Island they look similar . This house is beautiful . I think the owner was right on least having fire escapes . Imagine a high-rise on fire today's buildings probably don't have that many fire escapes . Safety first .

@katisugarbaker7349 23 дня назад

I never heard of it but our primary residence is 20 miles south of Thomasville, GA, so I’ll have to go find it. Thanks.

@edsel762 23 дня назад

I like it, very much.

@Wallblue21 23 дня назад

longer videos pls

@valeriewilliams6576 8 дней назад

Had 2 children committed to what was then considered a "horror house?!" How strange!

@chesterthawkins7510 22 дня назад

Very odd but beautiful

@pcno2832 7 дней назад

3:06 So, despite his fear of fires, he built a nearly all wood balloon-frame house with a 2 story wood-finished foyer, practically a bonfire waiting to happen, then tried to make up for it with a fire escape in every room, but in spite of all that, his wife moved out and died in a fire. That is a strange house with a strange story. I wonder what happened to the 2 kids in the asylum.

@veronicaferguson8548 23 дня назад

I totally love this house

@susanwills4723 11 дней назад

I think it’s a gorgeous house. Love it 💯💯💯💯💯💯🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@terriseaton3049 21 день назад

If wood wasn’t used in that Era, what else was there? Thomasville, GA is 30 min from my home. I’m going for a tour!

@lorir5728 5 дней назад

I like it

@blackcats179 6 дней назад

I think it's beautiful 😊 You just need to appreciate the unusual.

@Adasteia 13 дней назад

How gruesome. One child dead , two in an asylum for no reason given and ironically the wife died in a fire at her new home ! 😮h Tragedy and Woe !

@DianaJewell-jf9ep 3 дня назад

I would love that odd house !!! ❤

@dianashoultes1089 4 дня назад

Two of their children were committed to an insane asylum. I find that concerning not to mention how his wife passed.

@josephpiskac2781 23 дня назад

I resided in Richmond VA in 2003 and I was told the Chicago Fire was the greatest confederate victory of the Civil War. The United States needs to rewrite a vast amount of its history.

@garryferrington811 22 дня назад

Did the fire happen during the Civil War? No? Well, southerners tell a lot of great stories.

@josephpiskac2781 22 дня назад

@@garryferrington811 The Civil War did not end. Look at the Kennedy murders?

@recratdemopublican2024 21 день назад

Me and my old lady saw this house in early March of this year, my brother and his old lady live on cassidy rd close to US hwy 84

@bethbartlett5692 8 дней назад

The best "Old House" is in Macon Georgia., the "Hays House"! It is absolutely "Craftsmanship" and of "Premium Class Taste"! BTW, Mrs O'Leary was a scapegoat, because she was Irish.

@CherieODell 19 дней назад

How horrifying to be married and live in such a beautiful home, but to have such a horrible fate in the end. It's really too bad this man's wife and one of his children died, his other two children were put into a mental institution, and he lost the entire fortune. It sounds like his PTSD may have really caused all of that and he may have been abusive and extremely unreasonable.

@hjp9815 20 дней назад

Even with masonry construction such as brick, stone, or concrete, it is likely a home of that era would still feature floor, roof, stairs, and interior partitions of wood construction. The great Chicago fire demonstrated the need for fire blocking in balloon framing. Presumably this house benefitted from that hard won knowledge, and fire blocking was installed. Note that in other performance respects, traditional balloon framing is superior to the cheaper and less labor intensive than the western platform framing that is done today. It is better performing from a seismic and wind load aspect, and more dimensionally stable.