Touring the Mansion that ALMOST Changed History| This House Tours 

I loved all of it

To add that they have been appreciated and not torn down. Wonderful history!

No sane person could have tampered with that wood work.

@@davem3789 Unfortunately, there are a lot of "insane" people out there.

Thank goodness the led light is way too high as it is. Who knows why they restrained themselves? They just don't get the home. Scary. Maybe it's on the register but that can preclude interiors?

We wouldn't want to live inside a summertime "hot-box" no matter how elegant, modern upgrades are necessary

I have two curved radiators in my Queen Anne, mine are radiused to match the tower

@@johnmiller8975 the builders definitely paid attention to those details! I really like the house with the curved radiator but the basement had a dirt floor which really would not have been useable.

@@annescott2748 My floor is cement because they put in a cistern and needed the wall to hold, but all the other houses we looked at before 1920 had dirt

It used to take a couple of weeks to unload ships before forklifts

@@victoriawhite3662 Thank you. Even to the mid 20th century , on -loading and off-loading of a ship required multiple hundreds of hours of manpower. The use of sealed storage containers, lifts, and self-loading machinery is relatively recent. In the situation described in this video, the use of train cars, for delivery to a second ship, would have required a repeat of the off-load/on-load process. Even with rock-bottom wages for dock workers, that would have cut into a ship owner's profits. I can understand why a system for over-land transport of entire ships was considered.

Elblag boat canal lift in Poland is a small scale version of Eads idea.

Many years ago, I was a kid and a classmate lived in a large old house, from the era of your cousins, in Sacramento CA and the ballroom was in the basement, which seems easier to get to over the 3rd floor. This one actually had street access to the ballroom. I was told then that the man who built the house had a lot of daughters

Joe Says: In the late 1990s I lived in a house in Minneapolis that was built in 1911 and had a 3rd-floor Ballroom as well... I rented from the homeowner, so technically it was shared housing because I used the bathrooms on lower floors and lived on that top floor in the 14' X 19' room which had been the Ballroom. A small, simple set of stairs led to it, and entering the space you were soon beside a door to a big square-shaped closet with coathooks on all 3 sides. A friend who loved architecture informed me that my space had been the Ballroom or 'party room' and the big closet was typical for the time of construction, since closets with hangers hadn't really come into style yet in 1911, and in Minnesota there would have been some big coats to hang in there! I observed another door which led to an unfinished attic space, probably always used for storage; that area had a door which led into yet another unfinished attic space which was more like the shape of a 20th-century walk-in closet (I joked, "Look! The attic has a garret!")... I described my new digs to a friend during a phone call to Florida. My friend, a native New Yorker, asked me for the address so she could send me a card to congratulate me; the house was on Park Avenue in Minneapolis. My friend exclaimed, "You're living in a Ballroom on Park Avenue! That's FABULOUS, Honey!" There was a cozy sense of space in that big room, since the walls took on a diagonal angle at perhaps 5 feet from the floorboards; the ceiling itself was flat across, but high enough to prevent one from ever feeling cramped. My cat and I were quite happy there!

@@cuucnsbfl9913 I enjoy looking at real estate sites, about 10 years ago I found a big home for sale in Detroit's Boston Edison with a ball room on the 3rd floor,. The concept seems so odd to have a party rooms up on the top floor up a narrow staircase. Sounds like you had a great room to rent back then.

Joe W. Adds: I kind of figured that since I was "Up North" [instead of back home in Florida, where I grew up] the top-floor ballroom made good sense, because warm up could rise up even a narrow staircase and then the party goers would be comfortable enough to shed those big coats and show off their dance moves and sleek newfangled 20th-century fashions! In Florida, the ballroom might well have been a high-ceilinged space on the ground floor, and would've needed plenty of tall windows for ventilation - the idea being to keep the dancers from getting Too HOT!

I agree, the modern furnishings were a bit jarring. Particularly in the livingroom.

We are hoping to get out to the East Coast soon, stay tuned!

@@ThisHouse Can't wait!