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On this night I was in the area and figured that I might as well check while I was. A point of entry was wide open (without any footprints in the week old snow) so this added to my assumption of the house not being very exciting. My assumption was proven extremely wrong as soon as I stepped inside. There was a vintage Philips radio in the first room of the basement and then the second room was completely full with a massive and fully intact toy train set. From there it just got more and more interesting!
There is very little information available about this house, but I did find a city planning video. Where the development company had its request to develop the land approved. In the approval a city employee stated that this development was long overdue so the property would fit in with the new developments surrounding it.
Thankfully we get to explore it and check out all of the really cool stuff left behind before it is gone forever.
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After 2012, the numbered corporation who owns the property allowed it to sit abandoned and decaying. By the year 2020 the corporation applied to remove the protections and demolish all the buildings on the property.
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I have been unable to find any information about the buildings themselves. When they were built or when and why they were abandoned. The most recent date on anything inside of the house is a newspaper from 2007.
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The excitement was more than warranted. This history this house holds is amazing!
Built in 1870 this once gorgeous house was home to a prominent settler in the region. A man who not only farmed his land, but was also elected as a councilman for the township and then also elected as sherrif for the county.
Shortly after his death in the 1890s, his family that included 10 children. Sold the homestead and during the next century was home to 5 more families.
In 2006 the house and property was purchased by a numbered corporation and despite being identified as being identified as having high cultural heritage value. Has sat abandoned and decaying for nearly 20 years.
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Despite the large amount of decay and vandalism, the interior of the house is still beautiful!
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This was an incredible explore! And you can check out the video of it here:
This hike was not a challenging one, rather a beautiful one. Cootes Paradise is a nature reserve in the west end of Hamilton Ont. and is a perfect spot to highlight the beauty of nature.
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I found this house in the winter of 2019, but the house was fully sealed up when I visited. I left the location as one to keep a close eye on because I completely fell in love with the exterior of the house.
My second trip was where it went bad. I went on a nice spring afternoon, but within minutes of stepping foot on the property a car pulled into the driveway. I quickly left, even though the person in the car didn’t get out and seemed to have no interest in me. Thinking it could just be a coincidence, I went back that night and again within minutes of being on the property multiple cars pulled into the driveway. I watched from the bushes as nearly a dozen people with flashlights and dogs inspected the house and searched the land around it. I made my way out to the road and a car slowly drove behind me as I walked to a nearby subdivision.
The property clearly had motion censors, trail cams or other security features. But these were not security guards or police that arrived. Leading me to believe that there was something going on at the house that I didn’t want to tangle with. And despite loving the exterior. This was one I would sadly never return to.
Until another explorer posted a video on Tik Tok of the exterior and interior of the house this week. I spoke to them and after being told they had no issues, I knew the time to go is now!
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With an estimated build date between the 1830s and 1900. This was one of the first houses in what was a small agricultural town. A town this now a growing city.
Purchased in the 1970s by a young couple, they raised a large family in the home and lived here until a few years ago. The husband passed away and then only a year later his wife also passed. The city they annexed the property for the building of a new community in the near future
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