while I love this house, it does not look like it has been or is being preserved. It needs a complete restoration.

Barnabas Collins was my idol. Even as an 8 year old I figured out early on that he wasn’t evil just after his debut on DS. When my son was about 7 I had trouble getting him up for school until I discovered that SCIFY showed two back to back episodes at 6:30 and 7:00 a.m. I introduced him to the 1796 Collins family characters and never had to worry about getting my son up on time again. We’d watch DS while eating breakfast. Jonathan Frid was such an excellent actor.

Was it beautiful?

Why did the school sell it?

That's the year I believe that summer was co-ed. I was living in my dorm in the singles wing. Room 219. All the way down at the end of the hall on the right near the fire escape. Lived there from 1991 to 1994 until I graduated. That summer I was working in the kitchen for Sodexho. That was my summer job that year. And you got to stay on campus in your room free of charge!!

Thankyou for the history of the place. It is beautiful. 😊

This is the Dark Shadows house.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Dark Shadows the TV show is on KZfaq.

Yes, I had no idea it was a real place! Great show...used to run home from school to catch it.

@@philipgermani1616 Me too! Loved those secret passageways and vampires.

I’m a new and obsessed DS fan. So glad for your comment. 🙏

I’m another Dark Shadows fan. Like you I ran home every afternoon to watch the show. Even my mom who hated soap operas was a huge fan. I drew the Old House over and over. The furniture in the Old House plus the 1796 costumes inspired me to learn more about the architecture, furniture styles and clothing history of DS. All of these years later I still enjoy learning more about these subjects. BTW who was your favorite DS character? I had a mad crush on Barnabas Collins and somehow intuited that he was not an evil person long before his backstory was revealed. Happy memories!

@@monicacall7532 Monica, I think that Barnabas was everyone's favorite. There was no DS without him.

The Old House at Collinwood was on the Lyndhurst estate in New York. Sadly that house was destroyed in a fire.

@@andrewbrendan1579 Yes, I remember reading that, somewhere. I loved that house and was sad to hear that. When I was a child, I made a cardboard model of The Old House and would pretend to live there.

"Many of the rooms that had been imported intact from France and installed in Washington, D.C. twenty years later were moved again and reassembled in Newport, and a new building was constructed around them. When the interiors were completed in 1925, there were 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third. It is believed to have been one of the largest buildings to be moved in this manner." - Vestiges of "Sea View" The only exterior that portion that we could find that was moved from DC to Newport was the turret. A truly massive undertaking. The abandoned shell of "Aladdin's Palace" sat until 1931 when it was demolished for the Dupont Circle Building to be built. - Dalton(the editor)

@@ThisHouse Thanks. There are SO many people who believe the whole structure was moved

Did you watch the whole video? It said that since 2009 the house has been used as a private residence, and sometimes used as a site for filming--neither uninhabited nor languishing.

@@jamesclendon4811 What the video didn’t mention is that the Carey’s have passed away and they left it to their daughter who doesn’t live on the property. The property has been more or less abandoned for the past three years. The mansion has been for sale since late 2021 and from the looks of the photos, it’s not in great shape. Only the foyer, great room, music room, first floor hall, and entrance hall have been maintained and the listing indicates serious renovations are required to bring it back as a residence. The Carey’s other gilded age mansion Winfield is also for sale. Since the massive fire that destroyed the interior of Winfield, the Carey’s have also put it up for auction but it didn’t sell.

@@henrylivingstone2971 Well I guess now I know. Peace.

I believe it sold recently for 29 million to a private owner.

@@MC-342 To my knowledge I believe it is still for sale, I don’t think it’s been sold yet

Me too. That and the opening intro usually spoken by Victoria Winters.

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

There were no income taxes at the time and banks were not guaranteed by the govt... thats why they built these monstrosities

I can't imagine how optimistic they must have been to build such huge buildings just to live in.

New Money ppl do not understand money as a tool. Thus when you do not know how to a tool correctly, the benefits of the tool are lost. Also, quite a few of these ppl are like lottery winners and spend like they have never seen money in their lives.

perhaps they hoped that their children or other fam members would take on their passion for the home

Why would they care what happens to it after they die? They build the house for their use when they're alive, not for an investment for their kids.

The Old House in DS was actually a real house. How are it burned and nothing of it is left, so I am told.

Fred, I’m so sad to hear that news about the Old House. I always liked it better than Collinwood but that might be because I had such a crush on Barnabas!

Gov. Hugh Carey didn't own this - it was his brother Martin Carey.

One of my favorite lines is after Angelique who has been dead for six months but without decay comes back to life in her coffin and says to her twin sister Alexis who said the body must be destroyed, "....someone must be destroyed, but it won't be me. It will be you". Then when Angelique has taken Alexis's place she says to Quentin, "Angeliques body must be destroyed...and the sooner the better". That scene is on You Tube along with many other "Dark Shadows" videos.

Happy memories!

if you search the net you can find the floor plans and the floor plans are actually terrible, especially for today's way of life. I just thought the floor plans were terrible, and the whole house, while I'm in love with it, (more the outside of it) of course, it would really have to be re-configured, etc.....jmo though.

I also thought building something like this for a 50th anniversary was a tad over-optimistic.

@jeanbaker2087: Actually, there was the house in this video - which served as the exterior of the "Great House at Collinwood." Then there was another house - located on the property of the Lyndhurst Estate, in Tarrytown, New York - which served as the exterior of "The Old House." Unfortunately, that "The Old House" house was destroyed by a fire. No, it was sooner than that. The character of "Barnabas Collins" was introduced in Episode 210 ( painting on the wall, hand coming out of a coffin; ) then ACTUALLY first seen near the end of Episode 211. That was about 3/4 of the way through the first ( 1st ) year. Yes, many of the stars of the pre- "Barnabas" episodes continued their roles after his introduction. Then new characters were introduced, played by new actors. But, then - time travel was introduced and the previous actors, older or more recent, played DIFFERENT, although look-alike roles ( most notably in the 1795 time travel episodes. )

Sadly I doubt it is in pristine condition.

Yes. But off the market now. Never sold.

Wonder what the rich sid to some of those girls?