Mansion

Makes me angry to see such waste. Somebody obviously must own the property; if they didn't want it, why not sell it dirt cheap to somebody who can do something to it?

I AGREE.

How can it make sense to let it sit and rot to the point that the roof collapses? Argh...

I know in the case of the town that I live in, places sit for so long unattended because it costs too much to tear them down. There's a factory a few minutes from my house that sits with the roof laying on the third floor. A few feet back in the woods, was another factory that just recently was demolished because it had been set on fire twice. It's crazy because last year, the Urban Renewal Authority aquired a 142 year old house (in suprisingly good condition) by eminent domain and tore it down. The historical society tried like like hell to save it. We collected petitions and protested outside the house, but to no avail.

Unfortunately that is wha eminant domain does. Did you guys hear the new law was passed that allows "eminant domain" on the local government level. Before it was only state and federal government that had the right to use eminant domain and local government had to get permission. Now local government has the right to take property for the good of the community....Here come the Walmarts...

Actually, it was a recent Supreme Court decision that allows eminent domain to be used for the purpose of increasing tax income to a municipality.

Motts, did you go in?

i wonder if Adams familie lives there??:-))

Can't really say too much. pictures like this really upset me.

It is sad that places like this all over the country are being let go or torn down to make way for particleboard houses, strip malls, and Wal-Marts (only to be abandoned and turned into flea-markets later on down the road). I see this happen all the time in my County. Beautiful old homes that have withstood time, tornadoes, ice storms, and fires to be torn down for homes that are on top of one another - which will never last as long as the original home. Sometimes I hate progress. I would give my teeth to have something as wonderful as this place once was - people just care more about the almighty dollar than history. It is easier to rebuild than save. I need to stop - I am getting angry. LOL

Why? why do you leave a house like this to rot??? to buy a mobile home? haha people die in a house and all the sudden its "haunted" and no one wants it. Pathetic! id like to talk to the person responsible for this!

I love my house...as soon as I saw this pic I was like...Oh My Goodness....What a bloody waste. My house just turned 100. I love every pic you have done (Or I have seen) so far..Lovely

could be the former home for the head administrator of the hospital??

When I used to visit my family I often saw across from their cottage an abandoned theme park on this island. I know it's abandoned because I've been visiting there for 24 years and the ferris wheel has yet to move. I wish they would tear it down, it creeps me out.

Looks like fire damage on the 2nd floor. You can tell this was once a spectacular home. When I see this I think of the first occupants spending their first night there after months of construction & anticipation. They probably moved in on a Saturday & were greeted with the smell of new wood & carpet. The next morning they awoke to the sounds & smells of breakfast cooking in the new kitchen. So many stories of daily life unfolded in this grand old lady. May she rust in peace.

There are so many reasons why this could have happened...

Imagine, the owner dies with no heirs, close family, or instructions on how to deal with the house. The furnishings are sold to pay debts, but the house costs more to renovate or keep up than it's really worth, so it sits...

Or, the house is left to a surviving son or daughter in another state. They can't move their jobs and families to this big old house, they can't afford a live-in caretaker, they can barely afford the property taxes on the house. It goes up for sale, but dad never put much money into renovations and it needs new wiring and plumbing to get up to code, and probably a new roof. The house sits on the market, no one willing to take on the challenge for such a large house so far from town, needing such expensive repairs.

One late winter evening, a short in the wiring sparks a fire that burns fast and hot, collapsing the roof before the fire department can arrive. Several states away, the family gets the phone call - their inheritance burning - and there's little they can do about it. So the house sits, too expensive to repair, too far away to worry about.