Stone House

[theoriginalguy11]

It's abonded for a reason, maybe do a little research on it first. To most people this would be a little gold mine, but why hasn't someone bought it up and fixed it up ?

[sethzky77]

put a roof on it and move in.

[scm2244]

so beautiful place!!!!

[lsnoyz]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. It would appear from maintained pathways, footbridge, etc., some owns this land....and therefore the stone house? Unless this is part of a park. I'm so curious. I would have gone home and immediately started digging into the history of the house and it's inhabitants!!!

[cuzairsoftisghey]

this would make an excellent small home, and all the difficult stone work is already done for you!

[sufizmjim]

A charming, fixer-upper, complete with running water (nearby), there's probably a hand dug well about, cool.

[spyvsargent]

would love to know ! the history, about the house

[fa4everfa]

nice ...there is something that looks so much like in a back road closed to Sterling Renaissance Faire near Tuxedo Ny. I went there , checked it out , i think there had been a fire in it some time ago , so beautiful the place was, me and my friend Nicole , we took some pics in it , great feeling being in that house --we went there in the Fall after leaves had fallen ----i wonder if it is the same place , the woods around it were magical too ,so much like this one !

where is this house at,?

[DesmondPK]

This reminds me of when St. Francis rebuilt the ruined church.

[Jason1975ism]

paradise! id so homestead that!

[GrimLP]

A shame to see something like that go to waste. I would feel compelled to repair it and live in it. Area looks beautiful as well.

[TheManFromAlaska]

Put a roof on it and call it home.

[coveybarbee]

I'm pretty sure the Blair Witch lives out there.

[justinleemiller]

This is quite common in New England. Often the chimney or a few stone walls are left. Farms like this were abandoned when people quit and moved to cities or went out west for better cheaper land. You can tell from the uniformity of the trunk diameters that this was cleared farmland that returned to wild forrest after 90-130 yrs.

[intogrey1]

something like you'd see in return to castle wolfenstein

awesome thanks for sharing

this is real though and was well made cause its still standing ? wonder how old it is ?>?

[enochseyes3]

Dude...that is an awesome house. Was the land for sale, or were you just walking around? An all stone house now is worth a small fortune; and what I'm talking about is the ones like this, not that artificial stone facing they use. My first thought was 'wow, give me a few shovels, rakes and wheelbarrows and let's get busy!' :D Would absolutely love to restore this one.

[ilililhy1]

@enochseyes3 You my friend ,can also build a real stone house,start with rocky land. motivate and commit yourself. even when your tired of looking at rocks and carrying them. GOOD LUCK.

[gokalps20021]

Thank you for the video,quite helpfull.

I am also planning to build a natural stone house by myself.

Can you also pass some information regarding stone foundations, plumbing and electricity installation works.

Any assistance for visual tools such like DVDs,movies and etc. will be much appreciated.

e-mail: gokalps2002@hotmail.com

[xmicina]

@gokalps20021 And what type o insulation you want to use for insulate walls? Without insulatin is a stone house brutal fuel eater..for very long part of its lifetime. Today is not almost any reason to build from stone,, except decorating outside or inside parts of house.

Watch pasive houses, strawbale houses, rammed earth, vibration pressed compressed earth block(bricks) if you want to use naturals materials to build. Or you live in country where winter si warm? I lived in stone house=DammCold.

[gokalps20021]

This house looks quite nice.

I am also planning to build a natural stone house and need some ideas especially regarding slipform method, foundation types, electricity wire installation work and plumbing work.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

[superdude2112nyc]

@morndew247

Is there any specific entry point on the reservation you need to enter to get to this site? How far in do you need to hike?

[nycupperes]

I wish I knew who built that house, I'd have them build me one today. I live really close to that location in Bergen County NJ and have walls of stone that I've always wanted to build something with...

[timatlightbox]

dude, raise some funds and get a roof put on it, what a dope bush hangout!!

[toshibacoast]

you shouldve stayed there for a night.

[candyskulltuts]

its the blair witch house :)

[bonanzatime]

The outside stone work looks much better than the inside stone work.

[devonkeim]

@bonanzatime It looks like they built the walls against a smooth inner frame and the the fram was either removed or rotted away. It's a lot easier than building the walls completely freestanding and isn't bad if you are going to cover the inside walls anyways. But as you noticed, it doesn't finish up quite as nicely.

[tengsr]

@bonanzatime Im guessing the inside had some sort of insulation to cover it

[inishstone]

@bonanzatime the external stone would have been the finished surface were as internal stone would have been plastered over and the masons would haveknowen this and used better stone for outside

[exitre]

make a castle

[bonerears]

wat did they use in the olden days to keep the rocks together did they ust use mudd n rocks to build buildings

[devonkeim]

I was surprised to see that the doorways weren't arched, I thought even with cement they would have done that. Very cool building though!

[MsJackle99]

@devonkeim Even though it does not have a rounded top it you can see that there is still a key stone in the center of each opening. This stone will still perform the same functiion of holding up the adjacent stones. This was built by a true craftsman. It is truly beautiful work.

[CodeBandet]

should last another 100 years.. for the way they made that.. whoever made that did a damn good job...

[debmarie2003]

What an incredible find. Kinda sad that it ended up abandoned. Have you ever found out any history on it? That sure must of been a fascinating discovery! Can you imagine the labor that went into building that baby?!

[tengsr]

@debmarie2003 I do stone work for a living, I think it would of taken longer to get all the stone there, than it would have taken to build it!!!

[Majoofi]

pretty cool. Where is it?

[zedosix]

where exactly is this home