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I live a few blocks from this home and they are currently renovating it. They’ve been keeping all the residents in the area updated about the renovations. I’m excited to see what it will look like after they finish the renovations. I will go visit it.

I read that they had 37 House Helpers, maids and butlers etc. but then they also had 60 gardeners. All of them were year round workers. So they had to accommodate almost 100 workers. Insane! Also sadly a Church who had bought it sold over 350 acres of the 400 acre Estate this home is on. So the home now only has 33 acres. They had purchased the mansion for only a little over $100,000. They then sold much of the beautiful architectural décor pieces on the ceilings, walls etc and even sold the solid walnut walls and extremely rare outdoor bronze fountains now worth a small fortune. Just one smaller piece sold in a 2006 auction for $395,000. That plays a large part to why the place is so gutted. A family member donated 2,000 paintings to the national Art Gallery. With endless Rembrandts, Van Gogh’s and every Italian and French artist desired by any art collector. Most of the art is from the 1400-1500’s. You can view most those pieces online. When the Widener’s had it all in their home, it was known as the Most Important Private Art Collection in the world.

Absolutely Gorgeous!!!!I have seen hundreds of abandoned mansions and this is has got to be the most amazing of them all!!!!!Thank you so much for showing this!!!!!

My thoughts and "aaawww's" during this entire video is the fact ALL that detail & insane handy work was done all by hand and even in today's world with all the technology and machinery it could never be recreated as well as the men did back in the day with nothing but pure brut strength and hours upon hours of hard labor. Absolutely stunning!

I can’t tell you how sad I feel watching this. It’s a tragedy that such an amazing piece of heritage has been left to fall apart like that when it could have been so much more.

Someone needs to restore this beyond beautiful MANSION!!! THIS IS HISTORY

Man, when I watch your videos, it's like I'm really in there with you, making me forget about my actual current surroundings, lol. I become fully engulfed when watching, as both curiosity and fear take over my emotions. Great job!!

This place is beyond words! Extraordinary! I wish someone would fix this place and preserve this lost treasure! It’s terrible to let this go to ruins!

This house needs saving what a stunning house it would be to return it to its former glory

Thank you so much for making this video. Lynnwood Hall is probably my most favorite house in the world. I have visited this house so many times when I lived closer but alas, only the outside. I was always incredibly sad to see it abandoned and in such a state of disrepair. Shame on the local, state, federal governments for not placing it on the National Register of Historic Places or declaring it a Landmark so it could be preserved for posterity. This home was truly, America's treasure, it's Versailles. Unfortunately man's greed or ignorance or just plain shortsightedness got in the way of clear vision. It's sister home was Whitemarsh Hall, also built by Trumbaeur. It regrettably, was demolished and replaced with ugly, ugly single family homes. I have often visited Trumbaeur's grave in West Lauren Hill Cemetery just to thank him for the gifts of architectural magnificence he bestowed on America.

It seems so strange that in a house of that size that entertained that many people that there was only one way to get to the pool area and it seemed like such a long walk for guest or family to reach it. Cool video though. It's always exciting to be able to see all the old designs and items from so long ago. Absolutely beautiful, a treasure. Hopefully it can be saved somehow. Every inch of it holds so much lost history. Great job you guys. Very much appreciated.

I think its really amazing that you got to go in there and thank you for sharing it. I just couldn’t watch the whole video it was just to depressing to see such an extraordinary piece of history falling apart and forgotten. Someone needed to restore the manor and open it to the public for tours. Thank you again.

The school room you initially entered was the originally the "gentleman's smoking room". The bare walls were originally covered with leather wallpaper originally. IIRC, this was replaced at some point with mahogany paneling. The chapel was the original ballroom. It became the library when it was found to be too small and the gallery wing was added on. The original library books were donated to Harvard, along with a building to house them, in honor of the son who died on the Titanic. Above the front door on the outside of the building is/was a sculpture depicting the loss of the Titanic. The room with the the dining stuff was the original formal dining room. It originally had marble panels, which were sold by the prior owner (the seminary) to raise money. The next room was the "breakfast room". The "small" first floor kitchen was originally the butler's pantry, where the dishes would have been stored and prepared for use. The first floor safe was for the silverware. The elevator goes down to the original kitchen. The area with the numbered wall panels, leading into a room with no wall panels, shows the extent to which the prior owner was selling the interior fittings to raise money. The room that is full of bookshelves was the main art gallery. The original house's library is one of the rooms on the first floor, before being later moved to the ballroom (which became the chapel). The special collection (Van Dyk) art gallery is the area beyond the main art gallery. Another example of where the paneling was sold. The bedrooms off the art gallery are from when the gallery, wing was built in the 1920's. The original house was built in the 1890's. The art deco details of the bathrooms are pure 1920's. The desk with the watch is likely original to the area. The area where the sitting room, kitchen, and bedroom is today was probably the housekeeper's apartment from the seminary. it would have been bedrooms originally. The sofa and love seat were probably original to the house. The fourth floor was for the house servants. One side was for the men, the other for the women. The fourth floor lockers were for linen. The maids kept linen for each room separated, and the maid for a particular room kept the key for the lockers she was responsible for. One of the big wooden rooms in the "basement" is the pool table room. The others are for single male guests. The room you said looked like a bathroom was originally a bathroom. There was a tunnel which went from the basement to a large ornamental fountain (sold by the prior owner) that was outside the front door. A fan inside the house drew the cool air off the fountain during the summer, giving a very rudimentary form of air conditioning. One of the other tunnels led off to the area with the high mound of dirt. On top of that was a windmill. It provided power to the building initially, but fell from favor after the gallery addition was done. The electrical service from the windmill came through that tunnel. The "doctors" office is from the seminary, not original. Those were originally the offices of the butler and head house maid. There was also a room for the servants to have meals, and a lounge, which might have been the office spaces you saw. The huge empty rooms were storage rooms. The pool and badminton court are very close to the the port-a-cochere entrance. i.e., they are beneath the Van Dyk gallery. I didn't see the original kitchen in your video, nor did I see the boiler room. These are on the same level, one story down from the first floor. They had, at one time, a separate building for the 30 gardeners who worked there. Sadly, that building was taken down. There is a gate house, faced in Indiana limestone, that was lived in by the gatekeeper's family. It's quite large for a servant's house. Also on the property is the original massive carriage house with upstairs rooms for the stable boys, grooms, and drivers (pre-automobile). When PAB Widener died, his son made the original house into a total art gallery and entertaining building, and had the carriage house renovated into his home. It's massive, and supposedly impressive. After the seminary acquired the property, they used it as a dormitory. When their enrollment dropped, it was used by the caretaker. It would be awesome to see inside that building, as there are no pictures of it (unlike the main house). Overall, a great video!

Imagine this home at its prime! It’s magnificent!!

I started watching someone else’s video of this but they were whipping the camera around too fast. Luckily he said others were there filming it and I found your video. Thank you for slowing things down and actually letting us see the details. Great camera work!

Someone needs to fully restore this mansion as a museum pay tribute to the whole titanic story on the inside of this truly beautiful piece of art

This heritage should be repaired and restored I truly believe. Its so sad to see something so beautiful in this shape! It has soooo much potential!

Thank you for taking the time to show the whole house. It's a shame this house is abandoned. It's amazing. So beautiful. Once again, thank you. I wish I could save it.

It’s a piece of history frozen in time. Someone has to restore this mansion, it’s stunning

Loved it! Thank you for sharing this great explore!

I love how kids have no clue about the Dewey decimal system. You walk through any library and you'll see those multiple drawer chests which contain the archives of every book in numerical order.

The ceilings, walls and house itself is a work of art! Just amazing and heartbreaking to see it left to the elements!

SUPER WOW!!!!! I wish that place will be restored and saved soon. You are amazing for sharing this mansion! As you walked from the front to the hall way, I was imagining ladies with their beautiful dresses and the men with their amazing black suits greeted by so much guests and chatting.

I'm totally blown away, I for one would love to see the garage and the grounds. Regardless of what isn't there now, every piece and item that is there is an antique and very much valuable! This is such a tragedy of time and events. So sad for the owners and all the people that lived there. Most or all have passed away by now, so there story will not be heard. For around 100 years now it seems remarkably clean and as if kept. I didn't see a single cobweb or dirt on mantles or floor. I think you will find the pool in the end cap of the building. Also, there must be a gun room and a massive kitchen. Could be the pool is on the roof!

Makes me wish I was a rich man. I don't think anyone could ever replace all the artwork. But to bring the beauty of arcature back to its glory.

Thank you for taking us on an amazing tour of this magnificent mansion. I’m impressed with your integrity when you explore. You’re respectful and you leave things as you found them. This place is absolutely amazing.

This is amazing, it’s been my dream to go and see this place for years now.

WOW! Isn't this incredible looking all the way around. We forget the op lance of times gone by. Thanks for the walk through. One way to preserve the Last vestiges of Life .

Holy Mackerel, just amazing. A house with its own school, church, and big safe. Everything so grand. Wow!!! 😱🙏❤

OMg FInNALY. My best friend has always dreamed of living in this house and in her future she wanted to buy it and renovate it. Her family member live close to lynnewood hall and she was so excited to even drive by it. I am sending this to her right. now.

This mansion is beyond gorgeous thank you for sharing....I would've been a little scared being in there

Amazing! Very well done. How did you not get lost at any point in that place? I was so scared for you!

Incredibly Unimaginable Art!!!! Thank you so very much! Throughly enjoyed! I love how you respected this masterpiece and it’s energy! How wonderful it would be to see videos of back in the day when it once had life running through this estate housed with elaborate love, passion & gift from the hands & the mind of the creator Architect. Perfection Turning into dust which is so heartbreaking that somebody did not find value to preserve this work of art 😞 what a tremendous loss.

Thank you Kyle for taking time with details and how enthusiastic at the same things about the structure I like! Great video! Take care! ☺️

Ty for a tour of the beautiful mansion. Just wanted to say the stairway is just like the stairway in the titanic except there was no clock. Just amazing

This Place is being restored. there are many videos on KZfaq showing parts they have done already and how much still needs to be done and it is absolutely beautiful. I saw it on some show just a few weeks ago. They are doing a beautiful job preserving this place.

@ 29:31 those were vtg alcatraz leg irons they used on prisoners. If you were to resell them they go between $63 to $153. Pretty cool find! Glad explorers live by a motto " take only photos, and leave only footprints".

Kyle this home is amazing I’m sure it was beautiful back in the day. All I can say is wow thank you for showing us . Have a good evening 😊

Best video yet. I started to research Linwood Hall and discovered the original owners actually summered in Bar Harbor when my distantly relatives also had. “Summer cottage, Small World. Thank you 😊

Thank you, Kyle! I really appreciate your willingness to point out details.Also your respect for History.

So sad to see the decay of that beautiful home! ☹️ The architecture is fantastic! All the family pictures. ☹️ I would kill for all those rooms and closets and shelves! I would love to have my own library and art gallery! Great explore! Great to see ya back exploring! Love from your biggest Jersey fan! 🥰

Honestly, I'd love to see someone recreate that in virtual reality, and just have a bunch of people hang out there. Beautiful designs in everything!

Thank you so much for the tour... Incredible

This is so sad to just let it all fall apart! They should of fixed it and use it as a tour attraction? Or for a bed/breakfast? Just something? It's truly a beauty! I could just imagine how it looked like when it was livable? Thanks for sharing! Just so amazing! Please stay safe 🙏

Awesome video as always! Can hear the excitement in your voice. Was fun to see you with Angelo and Moe. Not that you showed each other very much. Think you need to get back to exploring. Keep on rocking Kyle!

This is probably the best piece of art I've ever seen

Imagine what the house and gardens looked like 5 yrs after it was completed. A house like that on 400 heavily wooded acres. It would be like your own private world.

Hello I love this, just a note of a kind thought, when u pan around the room it makes for a dizzy feeling, just saying slower so we can see more details. Love what u do, I am a abandoned lover❤

Some one should buy it and turn it to a bed and breakfast/hotel and keep the historic look!

Amazing ..these many rooms and tunnels..INCREDIBLE

I love your videos, you're extremely respectful to the places you explore.

I'm willing to bet that the chapel didn't come into play until the seminary purchased it in the 1950s as that room was designated at a ballroom in the original plans. Also, I've watched the first 12 1/2 minutes 4 times and I never saw you explore the hallways below the staircase, the right side designated as family space (billiard room, library, etc) and the left side for the servants. If you had explored the right side it should have ended with a door to the porte cochere and opposite that door would have been the building with the pool, squash court and what appears to be a utility area. It seems that a lot of the books were left behind by the seminary.

AMAZING!!!! A whole city under one roof!!!😮

I remember many touches of the decor from a movie cannot recall the title. This would be a great set for a mini series. There are spots where it looks like a set up was done for a movie.

Thank you Kyle for the great video. I live in Northern and I bet the Alcatraz Museum would like those handcuffs returned.

This place is outstanding!! 😮 Jyst imagine the people and the family who have walked there where you went. It blows my mind and I love history. So sad about the titanic and the link to the homes family 🙏🏻

I worked in Elkins Park in 2006-07. I lived in Chestnut Hill at the time. I would drive by this property almost everyday. I actually did some research through public records and was able to locate a gentleman that was at the time a representative for the property. I do not know his exact title however he email me several pages of the history on the property. Great Find.

Those ankle shackles are insanely cool! There is so much history just in those shackles alone! That watch could be another crazy piece to honestly. Had a leather band and if those were real gems or stone or whatever there reffed as that could be a huge find. Would be cool if they turned that into a museum and put all that cool little stuff in it

great video im catching on your videos subbed i think last week

Incredible...I am just discovering these vids...Kyle you are a brave soul. Walking through all that greenery...I'd be terrified of snakes...the Gotti House tour was great...cannot believe those people left all those books in that home. I guess when you are rich you can leave behind clothes and books and furniture oh my!...keep these tours coming...I love them.

Thanks for NOT showing the Rolls Royce that the video title clearly references. The house was impressive enough without the clickbait!

Why this beautiful mansion has not been maintained as a museum or historical place is beyond me.

What a Great Tour, Thank you so much.

Beautiful chevron floor, what a beautiful home! Can’t imagine living in such a massive home

Keep the faith burning for restoration. A Grand Old Lady, the Baker Hotel, in Mineral Wells, Tx, is finally being restored. Hope it happens here. 🤞💕

Thank you for this wonderful video! ❤

The whole time I watched you walk through, I just kept picturing in my mind of the excitement they must have felt the first day moving in and just walking through the house with everything gleaming and brand new. Oh I looked up that book you were looking at 28:03 mark. It translates into English as : Astrological Omens.

Hi Kyle! Love Lynnwood Hall. Even in the state it's in, it's still breathtaking. The hall in the mansion with the second floor spanning around the edge of the hall is almost exactly like the Breakers Mansion in Newport RI which belonged to the Vanderbilt family. The room that you refer to as the lobby was called the Great Hall at the Breakers. They're amazingly identical.

The pool is in the very back of the House. You have to go through gallery(aka library) on the second floor. There are stairs on the right to take you down to the pool.

It breaks my heart completely to see gorgeous old homes like these falling into such a tragic state...too bad my family wasn't lucky enough to hold onto the silver spoon I was born with or I most definitely would make certain things like this never happened...a true shame.

I used to pass by this place so many times growing up and every time I drove to work. I was always fascinated by its beauty and the story behind it. Always wanted to know what it looked like in the inside Makes me sad it just sits there. There used to be a mansion (Whitemarsh Hall) that was essentially its twin in Wyndmoor, PA but it was torn down in the 80s I believe.

It was his son and grandson that died on the titanic. His wife also died in a boating accident I believe off the coast of Maine prior to the titanic.

Thank you very much for filming this.I have been obsessed with this mansion for years,it's the last surviving jewel of American architecture.I am hoping to one day but and save it if I ever become rich enough.

Huge improvement over the Toys R Us video. Unbelievable that a place like this could just be shutdown and left to rot. Thanks for sharing.

The last of the Gilded Age, stunning. I can only imagine living in this stunning place back in the day

Your video just popped up and I Watched it. Very impressive tour! The little chair table was for the phone, it's a Telephone Table Gossip Bench, you could put your phone books, address books under the table part and your desk phone (which I believe were called princess phones) on top and a chair part to sit on...

Absolutely amazing. Thanks for taking us through. I boggles my mind that this place is abandoned. It could be restored for the public to see the beautiful guiding . I would be in awww in person.

FYI, FOR future videos. A LOBBY is in a hotel or a business building, a FOYER is in a home or GRAND FOYER in a huge spectacular home like this! Great video, i'm jealous!!! The "handcuffs" you found are most likely legcuffs, shackles, fetters, foot cuffs, leg irons because of the larger size for ankles plus the longer length of the chains which allowed the inmate to walk in short controlled strides.

Thank you guys for the video such a huge mansion

This mansion still echoes GRANDEUR and breathing workmanship just beautiful

i had to look up lynnewood hall floor plans to see where you were in the house, the place is huge

I love seeing other YTber's I follow together. I love you, Steve, Moe, and Angelo.

Great video! Very interesting! If you love old architecture you should take a trip to the Biltmore House in Asheville, NC if you haven't been. It isn't abandoned and you can definitely tour it. It's a beautiful old mansion built by George Vanderbilt. It was once the largest private home in America. Not sure if it still holds that title today. They have Neopoleon's chess set and giant vases from the Ming Dynasty gifted to George. It's pretty amazing!

Followed you before glad you’re back👍

You can tell NY all the materials used and the detail, that they had the finest and best artisans! I would love to see the pictures of when people actually lived there! Magnificent!

cool house, wish you would have looked at the dates of some to those books, and showed the pic that were on the floor. Great job showing the house.

WOAH. The staircase at 12:48 reminds of the the Grand Staircase on the Titanic, so cool.

That is such a beautiful mansion! It's in PA? Might have to take a trip there with my wife! I can see where he got the "Grand Staircase" inspiration from with that main staircase when you walk in! Very beautiful!

I would not have been able to walk in the lower tunnels - creepy but so fascinating at the same time.

I would be so creeped out walking through that place. Definitely looks like squatters were there at some point too. You guys are brave.

Thanks awesome tour!!

WOW! What an adventure! Thank you!

There should be a wine cellar in the basement under the east wing. Hope you can explore that sometime as well.

This makes me appreciate The Preservation Society of Newport, RI so much more! They rescued our guilded age mansions from the same sad fate of this impressive piece of American history. The Society continues to preserve and maintain our guilded age beauties for everyone to enjoy. We have visitors from every corner of the globe and it's a great boon to our economy. It's a close call, but I think Lynnewood tops them all, with the exception of our spectacular oceanfront location.

I'm trying to build this in Minecraft and got floor plans, interior photos and the like off the internet... But it took your tour to show the relationship of the various places to each other, the relative deck and ceiling heights, and a LOT of places that didn't have photos. Thank you!

Guys this video is crazy and super cool. It's unfathomable wealth and very interesting part of history. The house is amazing, the way it's built. It would be a shame to see it rot away. It almost looks like a British build of that period. Its seems very British. I love it and you guys are so lucky to get to go around it all. Great work. 👍 ❤

OMG!! Its BEAUTIFUL!! It's such a shame that houses are not built like that anymore. The detail that went into building back in the 1900's is just unbelievable. I hope this building is preserved. It would be such a loss and a shame to have this beautiful architecture destroyed. Hope it will be preserved. Its part of history. Thank you for filming this beautiful building.

The Biltmore Mansion in North Carolina is still in great shape, and I think there are people still living in a part of it. The grounds are beautiful in late spring.

The architecture is stunning