What a B & B this could have been! Such a waste to permanently lose history like this. So many stairs and tightwinders, a person could get lost, and such charm. Thanks, Kappy, for your work and dedication in showing us these wonderful homes. Hi, Ruby! 🌳

Whoever built those winders knew what they were doing. They are called dancing winders. As a carpenter I can testify that the number of people who can perform work on this level is diminishing.

The "timber" you mentioned with the wooden dowels in the cellar was also hand hewn. You can see the broad-ax marks.

Kappy, when my great-great-grandparents James and Eliza settled in Sonoma in 1850 on Sullivan Road, he built them a log cabin. At some point he added a second story, and a massive front porch before he died in 1899. I have several photographs of that home and my ancestors being photographed standing on the porch, and the balcony above. When finished lumber was scarce you used what you had, and as time passed and you had a little more money you added onto what already existed. He was a blacksmith, and a millwright so I am pretty confident it was built better than that cobbled together house with it's nightmarish staircases. In 1900 the house was burnt to the ground by the adult children after getting in a fight over who would inherit it. I do know that they built the original log cabin beside an ancient spring. The site itself had to be cleared of grizzly bears by James before he could do much of anything. But I guess after facing the incredible hardships they faced in the 1840s, like no food, spoiled food, eating acorn mush, and using buffalo dung as a poultice on the plains, war, traveling hundreds of miles on foot, grizzly bears were a dangerous, but somewhat manageable problem. Oh by the way, the idiot who last worked on that house was a real tool. I have renovated several houses in exclusive neighborhoods and trust me, the guy was poor, unskilled, and should have left well enough alone. In my opinion he did more damage than good. Looking forward to you next video Kappy, have great week!

Hi Kappy . You can definitely tell that the metal roof has kept this old girl structurally intact and not become a victim of the elements. Too bad whoever started the renovation work was unable for whatever reason to complete it.

I love this house! The stairs next to the stairs is so wild. It seems structurally sound and save-able. Oh I hope nobody knocks that down it’s just too cool.

You should have called it the house of stairs. Nice large house for the era.

Based on how many different staircases and materials in the walls, I’d say this was originally an old log cabin that has been added onto several times.

If only I had the money to move this house to State College, PA and renovate it to its former glory. What a sad thing to watch it sit and rot.

Judging by all commercial dining room furniture, I would say this might have been an inn of some kind maybe back in the1960s. I love the complexity of the layout. Those staircases are absolutely incredible. If I had the money I would look to buy it.

Kappy, this house is absolutely incredible and quirky and I would so love to see it in it's heyday. It's like a maze. This is in my top ten list near the top. Those archway fireplaces were so cool.

Technically it would be referred to a timber frame house The built in cabinets is actually a cold storage area for the winter If that was my building I'd dismantle it and reuse the wood to rebuild a smaller house with a similar look but not the stairs lol those made me dizzy

I used to vacation on a farm the house of which had the same sort of `higglety-pigglety` staircase leading to various bedrooms off the main hall. Very charming, and as I was a child I would fly up and down in delight.

I got lost in this historic timepiece of a house, and loved every minute of it! The wrap around porch would have been nice on a hot summer night, it would offer an opportunity to catch a cool breeze from any direction. Not only a brick and stone foundation, but a handmade brick and carefully placed just so stone foundation. If the beams/logs in the house are 200 years old, the sheer size of them says they were 100 years old when they were cut. Thanks Kappy, too bad Ruby didn't get to see the pink flowered wallpaper firsthand 🙂

The round window was probably a late addition. I once stopped to photograph and old house near PA, but I think it was in NJ. This was in the 1990s. A man came out from the next house and warned me to not try to go inside. He did tell me it was built in the 1830s. It had not been lived in since the late 1950s. There had been a beautiful old Pennsylvania style barn , but the owners burned it down because it had rats in it! Too lazy to clean out the old hay and stuff! The area was turning industrial, but even industry would not pay the price the owners wanted. Picking up a load at a Dixie Cup plant was the reason I found the house. It was a two story brick house. Probably not there any longer unless someone found a way to save it.

What makes your channel unique is that you go into houses that are so old, dilapidated that most other urban explorers would pass over as not having enough left to be of interest because they are looking to relive the past occupant's experience. Your interest truly lies in the house, not the past people. You show these houses stripped even of their past as being works of art, in and of themselves.

Fascinating house. It put me in mind of the Stephen king movie Rose Red with its odd configurations and add-ons.

Who ever try along time to renovate the house. End up quitting. Have you noticed all the restaurant tables in the house? The looks sounds and if someone had the money can make it into marvelous house. They could make it into a B&B. All the up and down stairways. There were a quite a few add on's to the house.

That's the craziest stairs configuration I've ever seen. Great catch Kap. Keep em coming.

The stairs remind me of Escher's art. Very Interesting.

Those weird stairs are called pie stairs- hence thier shape. Quite common in very old, large homes because they allow for multiple stairs for convenient access to upper floors from the back areas of the home.

Interesting house. I wish the log home could have been preserved and not been altered. Still a neat house. Nice to see a lot of empty rooms without clutter and no graffiti.

That was one busy house in it's day. It is layered with history! The effort that went into each section is astounding. The building of the stairs, the floor way upstairs in the detached room...The arches in the basement, along with all the work to build the walls. Is there a river near it? Or canal? Maybe it was an Inn at one time to lodge passengers. A structure like that will NEVER happen again, or last as long. It's one building that needs to be historically restored. BUT, I got a bad feeling it's going to sit there untouched.

Remember there was no electricity at this time. Living and navigating this gorgeous home at night was by candlelight ❤

Amazing house! I wonder what was up with all the restaurant tables.

I like they way you show little clips of all the houses you have visited at the end of your videos. I can remember each one .

It's wild to think that 200 years from now after you're long dead and gone the house you're sitting in right now could still be standing, an abandoned mess and possibly being walked through by our descendants with technology we never thought possible

I just love these old houses. The whole walk through of this video I was looking at the walls and thinking, "OK, new beam supports in the floors here and there with electrical and plumbing upgrades, work on the stone, brick and foundation in a few points, new studs or extra reinforcing studs in the walls with spray in foam insulation, new roofing and insulation with metal roofing and she's good as new." I'm in the process of cutting our own trees for timbers (7 by 12-inch center cut beams up to 22 feet long with lumber from a local sawmill) and we are building a true "log cabin" on our land in the Ozarks. We will be posting videos soon of the process. There will be some interesting videos posted on another channel that I plan on letting people know of within the next year (we hope)... keeping fingers crossed for good weather. Footing is poured and blocks for foundation are now on the site. I hope in a couple of hundred years people will look at it and say "wow, look how they built houses back then." Man, oh man.... I've just gotta win the lottery so I could spend my time fixing up these old places like this and doing resto-mod rebuilds on old muscle cars.

Hey Kappy! Wonderful old house. Love the porch. Huge rooms. Usable basement. Sad to think it may be going away. Thanks for getting us a look inside this beauty. Really enjoy all of your explores. Stay safe.✌️

Nice old farmhouse, I love these home explores thank you for showing them

Hello! This house was like a poor man’s Winchester House with all these crazy staircases! Thank you and enjoyed it as always!

Wow! loved the intersection of the curving log cabin staircases combined/connected to the straight forward Victorian staircases on the additions! Like an Escher drawing! Incredible! What an architectural marvel! and all still usable! Amazing! Congrats on filming this one Kappy!

I love this house !

There was a rare construction technique sometimes seen around the mid Chesapeake area. Where post were set vertically in the sill plate and slabs of logs were tong and grove into the vertical post. Hard to tell. But it appears to be the case here.

A-maze-ing house! Those stairs!🤪 It reminds me a little of the Winchester house with all of its quirkiness…so much potential just waiting to be restored. Thank you, Kappy I love that you show us all the angles…you have such a good eye photographing.

With the commercial tables and chairs, pass thrus and the huge mural, I agree that this may have been used as a restaurant, Inn or B&B at some point. Can you imagine rocking in some old-fashioned rockers on the porches waiting for your reservation to eat. Early Cracker Barrel style.

This is a very beautiful house from outside

Thank you Kappy for this great tour. What an interesting house. Pennsylvania has some ever lasting secrets and meeting houses dating back to the American Revolution and later the American Civil War. 🇺🇸

This is a great house! Can you imagine being kids in here. They would have a blast playing hide and seek! 😊

Wow that is a huge house nice find

The floor joist in the basement at 18:33 was repurposed from an even older building. Its orientation was originally flipped 90 degrees. The notches used to have other joists resting in them. It could have been either a sill beam or a middle beam.

It would be so great to sit in a comfortable chair and read a wonderful book!!

Hi Kappy What a strange house. Must have been a beauty before it fell into disrepair. Looks like they wanted to restore but maybe they didn’t have the money to do so. All of those stairways were really strange. I have never seen anything like it ever. The log cabin section was really cool. Those big beams were real neat. That’s when houses were made right and that is why this house is still standing proud. That basement was kind of creepy. Thanks for sharing this different style house. Nice work Kappy. Too bad you didn’t bring Ruby she would have loved being there. Stay safe and well.

First off I love your videos. ❤️❤️I am from Jersey and when I was young we used to take road trips to PA Dutch Country and look for abandoned buildings/property. It is one of the most amazing memories.

Thank you, Kappy...Oh, now this was refreshing! No...someone was murdered, died, left the house in a hurry and left everything behind, no staging..... just to see an old empty house ands the structure without walls. Somewhere most of us could happen upon and walk in and use our imagination to think about the families thru out time that had lived there the children climbing up and down the stairs and laughing as they snuck around the house thru "secret passage ways" and Oh if those walls could talk...

Ahhh Cappy… Did you just feel the “curse of the basement stair” beckoning? We KNOW how you just luv them basements.. We do appreciate you “powering thru” ! What a house! Thank you for posting!!

Love those wrap around porches don't we?

This has to be one of the best old houses I've ever seen! I mean if someone has the money this could really be something special

You have such a good eye. Thank you for taking me all the places you go. Never stop. I look forward to your next adventure.

Great video! There is a lot of old architecture to see in this one. Thanks Kappy!

Thanks!

Reminds me of MC Escher with all the staircases!😂 Certainly has a lot of history within those walls tho! My mind is trying to make sense of the layout…the best part for me was seeing the log cabin part peeking out with its old fireplace! The second best part was the difference in the cellar from stone to brick! Another good one Kappy! Thanks for showing that little bit of flowered wall paper! I liked it!

You would think those people who dis assemble old barns for their wood, would love a place like this

I love those stairwells..imagine being a kid having all them options

I love old rambling houses like this where theyve been added onto and become a labyrinth of odd rooms and staircases. This must have been lovely

So fascinating. I wonder how beautiful it was back in it's prime. Those staircases were crazy lol

Good thing the roof and most of the windows were done first, it helped to save the house.

Early DYI, just throw up stairs wherever you need them lol great video

It's places like these that have hidden areas that people had used to store valuables. It would be easy for someone to stash money so they could come back later and retrieve it. Also it looks like whoever built this house had never used a blueprint before and made it up as they went along.Thanks for sharing this awesome place with us Kappy and keep them coming friend.

What a true beauty.... I love those porches !! She is amazing and should be saved !! Those huge beams and planks in the walls WOW 😲 such a pretty old home she needs time and love and money and she would shine again like she deserves. Great video as alway's Kappy !! 👍👍

Great history lesson. Such a pity that another old home would be lost. I'd love to see a top 5 list. ? 🙂

😮 many stairs more than what I have expected

What a magnificent house! So sad it's in tough shape. So many wonderful significantly historic homes in PA. being left to rot. Love the old houses of PA. (P.S. it bums me out when you say architecture is weird 😔) Those multi directional stairs were awesome!

Thank you for the video Kappy! I am amazed that the fireplaces didn't have any bricks missing!

Stairs you imagine in fantasy novels. How many people do you suppose took a nasty fall down those over the years? Another terrific video, thank you Kappy!

What a crazy fun layout of stairs. You would need to be as sure footed I s a mountain goat to traverse those. Thank you. I sure wish someone would save this old love.

The outside looked so “normal”😬all those staircases were definitely unique!Beautiful wrap around porch(what a dream to be able to sit & move with the sun, or shade around your whole house) Well at least you can reach the the upper levels without having to walk to the other side of the house 😊take care Kappy

that has got to be one of the strangest houses with all the "add ons". Probably would have made a great B & B if one had the "finances" to do so. Whatever it was going to be it would have involved a lot of people there - judging by the size. It's mind boggling to think about how much lumber was used to build that house.

Wow. What an incredible house. Looks like they took one chimney below the roofline when the roof got done. If the bad ones got taken down I bet that house would easily stand for another 100 years. Thank god for the roof. Excellent explore. Thank You

Beautiful house hope they continue to save it!

Wonderful old house. Thanks for showing it.

I love that someone is restoring this house

Noticed quite a few replacement windows and pretty sure that circular one was also fairly new. Looks like someone may have started renovating and gave up. Would've been a huge and expensive undertaking.

I think someone thought of rehabbing this old gem into a nice restaurant or something? Do you know what those brick alcoves in the basement were? At first I thought they might be fireplaces, but they look like small cubby spaces. With all those stairways, this kind of reminded me of the Winchester house! Absolutely fascinating place! Thank you Kappy!

Once again, someone thought they would rehab a house and didn't know what they were getting into. I would break a leg or something for sure on those weird stairs. There sure weren't any architects involved in designing the additions. Interestingly, the house is still fairly solid.

Woooow I'd have loved seein it in it's day.Honestly it has more character now then most newer homes.I hope someone can bring it back to it's glory

well done kappy grand old house keep up the great work

With all the additions, it was interesting to see how they got them all combined! I guess that’s where all the staircases come from! It made for a novel home! I always loved wrap around porches! Thanks Kappy!

Great house. I'd bet that the people who built it were very interesting people. Definitely very industries.

Very nice!!! Love the beams and brick. This appears to be a huge home. I love it!! Stay safe Kappy and can’t wait till The next one. 😊

THIS IS ONE WONDERFUL HOME! The aged, peeling patina of the walls is quite beautiful. What a wonderful, intriguing old home. One the most fascinating, creative adding-on of new spaces I've seen. It should be saved!!

Hello Kappy! This house certainly shows promise...I can hardly wait to get started. That first room does look like Bad Santa's workshop! Sort of creepy, in an oddly interesting sort of way. I like the round window! It was certainly not original to the house, but it's definitely an "original." This house reminds me of the boarding house we explored a few weeks back. It had the expansive porches, too. The restaurant tables stacked in the next room definitely make me think it was used for a boarding house or roadhouse. That hole in the wall is possibly for food to be passed from the kitchen to the dining room. Maybe the back room was the kitchen, but the second opening in the wall is puzzling, as they both lead to that tiny, dark room. Weird! This small room actually makes me think of a jail cell! Could it be that this house was used as a jail? Maybe the holes in the wall are to pass food into that room. Gosh, if ever there was a house that could talk, it should be this one! It leaves so many questions unanswered! This house has such odd building techniques, like the big gap between the oldest log part and the newer addition, not to mention the multiple staircases, strange rooms, holes in the roof and the odd choices of building materials. I just thought of something. Maybe the owner/builder of the house was trying to make it hard for intruders to get to the family, allowing the residents time to get to safer sections of the house, like the cellar. That would explain multiple ways to get down there, not to mention the abundance of stairways to nowhere. After all, in the late 1800s, there were hostile tribes still trying to get those they considered invaders to leave their ancestral homes. Then there was that matter of northern aggression on the southern part of the country. Either of those periods of unrest could have given these folks reason to hide or flee. Kappy, you certainly outdid yourself on finding this house to explore! This house is at once fascinating and as scary as they come! It really makes me think of the Winchester House. One thing is certain, this is no house for a sleepwalker to live in! Anyway, thanks for an adventure which none of us is liable to forget any time soon. You saved this house's existence on video for historians who might want to see what it looked like before the bulldozers move in. It's a shame that the log portion of the place can't be saved, as it's so well-preserved. Maybe someone will do that. It would make a really great museum. Anyway, thanks for the adventure. Now I have to find something else to watch or it's nightmares for me! Love to you, as always, and to the sweet Ruby girl. Becca

Interesting place with many stairs, I bet kids play running up & down around the house lol!

Luv this explore but I was so lost. I'm going to have 2 watch again. Amazing job filming & making your way thru all the decay & debris. Thx 4 sharing. much luv. Stay safe

Craziest layout I've ever seen! I like it! Thanks Kappy! 👍👍👍👍👍

Nice old place, love the old ways. Excited,that's the way I feel ,so interesting.

I love wrap around porches.

I wish that we had historical laws that protected homes built by revolutionary soldiers. In another two hundred years. What will be left of our history? These are memorial's to our freedom. Let's hope some of these first American homes will be cared for like the historical treasures they are. Thanks guys, great house! And the victorian's after were nice!.

All them stairs-twists & turns = kind of reminds me of the add ons to the Winchester house, Thx for sharing 🦋

What a beautiful old house Kappy! We found a beauty today in Blackville SC I’m going back next weekend to check it out. Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful old houses.

I loved the amazing timbers in this beautiful old house, real shame that the renovations weren't completed as with all those beams exposed it would make a wonderful home, perfect backdrop for Primitives. Log cabins are so neat, wish we had them in England.

This really cool old house seems to have multiple personalities! Love the old log and stone!

Hi Kappy! Thank You for this video. I like the red roof, lack of gang tags, big brick fireplaces and of course, the crazy staircases. Wouldn’t it be grand if it was restored? I mean, after 200 years, that house is in such great shape!

Kappy, Thanks for filming this part of a different era with us all. I gotta admit, with all the bizzarro stairways, it reminded me of the Winchester Mystery House in California. ( :

This was a big house with odd stairs !!!! Thanks so much Kappy for showing us ❤️

Love the new format of giving background history of the home! So many videos I have wondered what’s the back story. Thank you.

Could this house have been part of the "Underground Railroad"? That attic and basement could have hidden runaway slaves.

This place reminds me of a book I once read with all the disjointed rooms, stairs and halls. Looks like a couple of different families lived there. Loved those archways in the basement too. Have a great day

What a crazy set up. Can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it. Loved the wrap around porch. Watch the sun come up, watch the sun go down. I think it was made into a boarding house. But what a place! I think you're right that the place was being remodeled and money ran out. Such a shame. Always great to see your videos Mr Kappy. Thanks for taking me along!!