Uncovering A Plantation's Dark Secret - Kenworthy Hall 

Having the kitchen separate from the main house was common in the South; it was done because the most common room to catch fire was the kitchen. I owned such a house that dated back before the Revolutionary War.

How nice someone could restore the house. And love how your videos are short but give us so much information

Love the winding stairs!

Your most unusual walking directions of how we should look at the house is truly phenomenal... Thank you so much forgiving me bearing while viewing the photographs.... You really are a very thoughtful narrator and I don't think you ever saw a box in your life! (As in thinking outside of!)

I’ve been to the house a few years ago. It is massive! At that time it still needed some work.

What a fabulous house and thank you to the people who restored it. We have lost so many glorious home in this last century +. Thank you for this video. Greetings from Seattle where we have lost so much of our old city.

Lovely restoration. Another great save. When looking back at history regardless of what happened, it’s all of our history - it’s where we came from and important to never forget. Societies that don’t learn from their past, and cover up what happens because it’s an inconvenient truth or now makes us uncomfortable because it doesn’t fit with contemporary values and ethics always run the risk of repeating the same mistakes. Great clip, and nice short history lesson.

This house had a ghost story in Katherine Windham Tucker's book "13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery." Ever kid growing up in Alabama in the 1970s read that book! I am so glad you did this video because I always wanted to explore the inside of this beautiful home.

Anytime someone restores one of these unique homes, I sigh greatly, that history was not forgotten.

Entry and staircase is magnificent.

Beautiful woodwork throughout. thankfully someone purchased it to care for it.

The Grant house info Galena Illinois has a separate kitchen and is said info the summer it kept the heat from cooking from heating the rest of the house.

Beautiful and unique 😊❤

Happy to know someone loves this house again.

I'm always glad to see these old beauties gain a new life.

They appear to have done a wonderful job on the restoration. This is not a criticism but now, they need to work on furnishing and accessorizing it to the right period. These rooms would look dramatically different. Probably the great majority of these big plantation homes are completely gone. It is nice to see this one saved and restored despite its dark ownership past.

I love the tower and the design of the house.

Love the oak woodwork and ceiling beams.❤

I like the woodwork, especially the staircase.

Gorgeous home. My mothers family descends from Marion and are still there on the family land. There are many intact former homes from that era. You could probably have a weeks worth of content from Marion and nearby Selma alone.

Beautiful restoration!

Im glad this national treasure was saved from destruction considering the skills that went into building it that nobody seems to have nowadays 😊😊😊

Those pioneers truly created such beauty

Thank you for saving that home!! That wood work over the archways is amazing!! I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything quite like that before.

This house has been featured in at least three books. One is “thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Geoffrey” by Katherine Tucker Wyndham. I visted the home when it was in a deplorable state.

Such a magnificent home. Some of these homes not only had a kitchen sepetate from the main living space that not only prevented the entire home from burning in case a fire broke out in the kitchen as well as for keeping the home cooloer in the summer but they had a kitchen in the basement which helped keep the home warmer in winter. My favorite architecture in these old homes is the staircases though. It's amazing to me how they were designed to act as a breezeway to cool the entire home in the warmer seasons

Cool as always !

Edward Kenworth Carlilse: a businessman and he was a real bit of business himself.

I always thought that was called a summer kitche that way when you were cooking the heat wouldn't create in the whole house🎉

Oh, how I would love a house like this. A real treasure.

What a beautiful home

Nice to get a happy ending for one of these old masterpieces. As always, good job.

Such a beautiful & interesting design.

So interesting! The estate is very beautiful! but what intrigues me is the story of the original people involved. TY

This is a wonderful job of restoration.

This house was definitely a change from the Federal and Greek Revival (the first one) plantation homes of those areas. I had to laugh when you said the kitchen was not used as such when the photo was taken; most people don't keep bags of ammonium nitrate in the middle of the floor, lol. We see sleazy business people today, and it's nothing new as history shows us. Interesting layout of the home. Glad this one has been restored, even if it's not open to the public. Too many historic buildings have met the wrecking ball.

Seeing these plantations, reminds me of Joyner Castle in Omaha, Nebraska & the museum, today's architecture is not the same today

Thank you again Ken 🙏☺️

As much as I enjoyed the tour and the details regarding it's fascinating history and the uncanny peculiarities of its founding owner, I must confess I am quite disappointed that you failed to share any photos of the slave quarters - inside or out. While I realize that the majority of shacks and cabins that had once housed enslaved African-American families on plantations all throughout the South are no longer standing - due largely to a collective sense of apathy, shame and negect on part of owners, as well as, of course, the general wear and tear of time -I would Imagine that the interior quarters had remained relatively intact -or at least insomuch as to merit a head peek during tours. As an historian, scholar and teacher of Black American history and Black diasporic studies with a heavy concentration in Southern Antebellum Studies, I have witnessed the ebb and flow of America's oftentimes tumultuous albeit ever-changing relationship with slavery and with race in general throughout my lifetime, and I've attained a remarkable deal of insight into the constant shifting trends in America's beliefs and attitudes and overall concern or regard surrounding Antebellum Southern society and culture, American slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the African-American experience throughout it all. And what I've discovered is seemingly rather disheartening and discouraging as far as our immediate situation is concerned, however, based on past trends both within the academia and within society itself at large, the American people possess an unfettered and uncompromising commitment to uncovering and preserving the truth of our nation's history - the good, and the bad, the glorious and the sorrowful, the honorable and the shameful. It is my sincere hope that you please take the initiative to tell the WHOLE story, particularly in this day and age where teachers are getting ARRESTED and charged with FELONIES for teaching our children about Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, or for refusing to teach their students fantastical LIES surrounding the cause of the Civil War constructed by members of the Daughters of the Confederacy beginning in 1891 in attempt to write Black people out of our nation’s history altogether. They say history repeats itself. Well, Governor DeSantis can certainly attest to that.

Many of the features that you described seem to be common occurrences.: Servants staircases, servants quarters tucked away in the attack, a separate wash house. The fact that the wash house was connected to the main house by a covered walkway hardly supports the idea that it was hidden for the sake of secrecy.

I think the hall is absolutely beautiful. Ken, you are the best narrator and I love your presentations. You make the presentation about the house, not about you. Thank you.

It's a crime how many families and beautiful homes were just sacrificed in that war.

Thank you Ken I really enjoy these videos.

It’s gorgeous!!

The house is gorgeous.

Beautiful and freakin haunted.❤️

Great tour. I'd never heard of this place. It was definitely a deviation from the simple usual federal styles that had the Greek Rivial porticos added in the 1850s and 60s.

A very historical and forward looking design. It would require a lot to maintain and keep up. I see a great Air B and B home.

Beautiful he had an awsome talent🎉😮

Beautiful ❤

Love those staircases!

WOW I would love to visit that house Beautiful...

I always love ur photos and information 👍🏼 if you could slow down when talking... it would make it more spooky 😉

Whilst the history of the house is both intriguing and sad, it is wonderful that it eventually got restored to its almost former glory.

Interesting! Thanks!

Beautiful ❤️

Amazing.

I’m very used to the idea of a “great house” in the Virgin Islands. Whim Plantation in St, Croix is a great example. We see so much of this type of functional use in this latitude, such as the cistern and separate cooking area for fire prevention concerns. Nice narration. The original owner certainly walked a fine line between North and South. A true hypocrite he was but Northern soldiers left it alone to save it for the modern restoration. Thank you everybody. It is worthy as a true historical archive.

Love your videos ❤

My mom's friend owns the house. All the restoration work was done in like the 50s or 60s and needs to be redone. But its a great house. She bought it for the land to breed horses. And I'm not a fan of the current paint colors in it

Excellent use of the floor plans! It's the difference between GPS and hand written directions when "touring" a house! Thanks Ken 💛💛💛

I would love to go see it.

Thanks👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

So,, I think it was Ken-wothy! good job!

I loved the video! Thank you, new sub!!¡

Kills me to see these glorious old buildings rotting away.

Love this house

Please do the daily mansion in Montana, he was americas cooper king! Very amazing property that’s being taken care of by a trust.

Glad that someone was able to restore it.

This house reminds me of the Barnsley Gardens ruins in the Georgia mountains.

A devil with be a devil. Beautiful architecture.

Don't know if I've ever told you but I *love* your channel!!!❤❤❤❤❤

This is a beautiful home . Love the color photos of that staircase and the floor to ceiling window at the landing . Also the in wall bookcases that are glassed in are really great . Would love those in my own home . It’s really heartbreaking when teenagers destroy such historic places with parties that include vadalism , graffiti , smashing windows and just total disregard for a lovely property . When a home like this one is left to disrepair and neglect it’s an open invitation to teenagers and vandalism . Really glad a family purchased the property and restored the home . Love these Historic homes . ❤😊👍🏻💯🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸

nice job.

Kenworthy Hall is not too far from where I live. Sometimes you can see it from the road if the trees are cut.

No dark secrets, but it's a beautiful old mansion.

Clifton in Baltimore would be a cool house to look at. Since it’s today in a medium state of restoration

Beautiful old house

That house looks a lot like the house one of my cousins owns from the rich side of my family after he obtained a law degree whilie working in only business law. After he witnessed what I went through in divorce courts if he could at all help it - Wanted nothing to do with the family court and the criminal court rooms in the court house in this city ever. So far so good. Him and his wife have never divorced. Nor has any of their children ended up in a whole lot of trouble so far. Very intelligent. Always has been. He nor his parents have ever been slave owners.

wow interesting history

I wouldn't be proud to have founded the American Institute of Architects, AIA, which should be known as the Anti-Innovation Association.

Great house

So how many people lived in this plantation home after the war? The slave owner never freed them.

It’s a beautiful place

Where may we find the floorplans for this house please?

Beautiful home that thankfully was saved

It was a lovely house whose inhabitants perpetuated the horror and disgrace of one human being forcibly enslaving another. A house where people worked from dusk to dawn with no pay and no guarantee that they wouldn't be sold away from their children or loved ones. So while some are able to focus on the historical aspect of architecture and large rooms, I cannot overlook the day-to-day of the oppressed people who cleaned those rooms without freedom or hope to live their lives as their enslavers did.

Where is the dark secret?

Thanks, Having grew up in a large city, I lived in a lot of big houses, but none like that, 😂😅😂. I love the grandor that they have. But I'm left wondering three things? 1. Why did it set empty for so many years, was it ever for sale then? 2. Where they asking to much money for it then, considering the shape it was in? 3. What did it sale for?? Thanks

Why wasn't it transferred by "will" to the descendents of the "slaves" who had suffered the "hardships" and "drudgery" of, most likely, very short lives there!!!

That was a pretty place.

Beautiful but expensive to renovate and maintain. I have that problem with my 100 year old home. But I am persevering. 🙂😏

Somewhat odd that there was (is?) a chest freezer in the entrance hall.

Can you do the Tom Pendergast house in Kansas City? It’s beautiful. Might be a little too new though.

what do I think? an utterly gorgeous building

The owner was...quite an opportunist. Beautiful house, though.

Geez, what a hypocrite he was.

I think the house is lovely orange virginia court house is designed with this Italian architecture

Yeah, what's the 'dark secret'?

Nice hanging tree's all around 🎯🤑