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The Abandoned House

The Abandoned House
Brought forward for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: BROKEN OR DILAPIDATED

When you consider that this glass plate negative was taken around 1900, it makes this abandoned house ( if this is indeed in Vermont,) appear to have been built mid to late 1700s. That would date it's construction to a time of early white settlement in Vermont.
I believe the large central chimney was also typical of houses built then.
Possibly, this is a hill farm abandoned in the 1840s when the sheep market bottomed out in the U.S. and farmers left Vermont for the more fertile mid-West.

I love this photograph. I had a copy of it made and it's on my wall.
What I'd like to do someday is have a reprint done by a studio located in a nearby town that does incredible, book worthy prints - but is very pricey.

Glass plate negative found by the antique dealer in Bennington, Vermont.

Fred Fouarge, appo-fam, Smiley Derleth, Alan Mays and 4 other people have particularly liked this photo


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me too.
9 years ago.
 RicksPics
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Very nice. It looks those may be roses growing around the front of the house, which add a lot to its charm. I wonder what they stored in the upper floors, or do you suppose that large opening was a window?
19 months ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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Thanks, Rick. Hmmm, I wonder if you're right about the roses? Weirdly, I hadn't considered that before, but it could be.
I also hadn't considered that the upstairs window was anything other than a bedroom window. I think it was often just one long room upstairs with a window at each end (and the chimney going through the middle of the room), so the large windows would have helped lighten an otherwise darkish, under the roof space.
19 months ago.
 Alan Mays
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Wow, that's really nice! Your glass plate negatives produce great images.
19 months ago.

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