Sellers Mansion 1886 Italianate Second Empire

[@suejaracz585]

Shame on the City for allowing this landmark to be lost.

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[@malindahenke5724]

I agree. What good does it do to be on the National Registry?!!

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@@malindahenke5724 sadly it is up to the owner to take care of it, the national register only recognized a place as historical. Preservation groups raise the money to protect and restore. Thank you for watching.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

@@suejaracz585 Well, the entire. City of Baltimore appears to be lost. I recently went thru Baltimore on Amtrak and the squalor was beyond belief.

[@RescuedIsMyBreed]

Where life once lived...Such beautiful architecture forever lost, heartbreaking.

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[@michaelballlenger7614]

Just, so sad. History is tossed away and forgotten.

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[@Sandjan90]

What a sad story of this beautiful old mansion. She was in pretty bad shape near the end but she still retained some beautiful details on the exterior. I am happy you got to document it before it was destroyed.

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[@carlashepherd9362]

This mansion was so beautiful & grand! What a shame it had to be demolished, another part of history gone! Awesome video as always! 👍👍❤️✊🤘

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[@philj9977]

It was destroyed by fire, then finally demolished 😢

[@Freaysclaw56]

A lot of the city is falling into ruin and disrepair. Many of the houses that are renovated are not done with their historical relevance in mind. Driving thru the city and seeing houses falling apart and sinking into themselves due to lack of care is heartbreaking. 💔

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[@WaKincaid]

Amazingly beautiful

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[@donnamariebrown2478]

Once again, time won. You always play the most appropriate music!! Thanks for taking us with you for a glimpse of this lovely house!!

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[@nancyyoungs933]

So sad to see it demolished....

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[@ndog2005]

What Gorgeous Mansion at the beginning, Just horrid with the fire & now demolished. Thank You UrbanEye for history & pictures, makes one appreciate the past..

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[@malindahenke5724]

I wasn't going to watch it after I saw the comment about being demolished. But how incredibly sad it burned. Someone really wanted it gone. We will never again see craftsmanship like this. Very upsetting.

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@@malindahenke5724 this was a sad one. Thank you for watching.

[@philj9977]

The fire was probably from a homeless person trying to stay warm, or an addict getting high. I live near by. Upton mansion is a few blocks south

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[@customscreenprinting]

Thanks for sharing this video with me about Sellers Mansion 1886 Italianate Second Empire it was a shame no one wanted any more so some one burned it down and it got demolished what a shame. and i gave you a thumbs up and shared you out on my community tab my friend and God Bless.

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[@Season-i1n]

I’m always saddened by the loss of these beautiful old houses. The families die off, or disperse, lose all their money, or just don’t want to deal with them anymore. Especially if the surrounding neighborhood declines. Cities and preservation groups can’t save all of them, but I’ve toured many old homes in Baltimore that were saved and are occupied by businesses, groups, or private owners who respect them.

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[@J.M.Chadwick6]

Excellent documentation and very well done but very sad. [ In 1881 my family built a grand Victorian mansion across the street from its mill. But in 1885 and again in 1900, two untimely deaths in the family resulted in the mill and the home being sold. The new owners used it as a boarding house for male employees and when that mill closed in the 1950's, it was privately bought and turned into apartments. Then in 1962 it was gutted by fire and eventually demolished. This video made me feel as if I was living family history. ]

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[@LeahSullivent]

If time could talk, and the walls of this house could speak, they would say... Remember Bon Haven, the LouiscTraxler mansion ( your video on that was excellent) and the Burkhardt mansion... all lost to time Thank you for remembering 😊

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[@clairwaucaush7225]

People go to Europe to look at castles. Mansions like this are OUR castles. Relics from an era that will never come again. Usually built by people who made a difference in society or business. Too bad a group of historical minded people didn't get together and save it. Would have made a great house museum!

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[@anteeker]

Obviously, someone wanted the lot for developing and very conveniently there`s a fire. What do you wanna bet it`s replaced with a glass and concrete box/monstrosity. Such a shame and loss. The staircase and outside window cornices were stunning.

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[@LoneWolfAttack]

While I'm sure it will indeed get replaced with a glass and concrete box monstrosity (and if not that, then a parking lot), let's not kid ourselves that the people who built all these nice houses 100+ years ago didn't do the same exact thing. There was always some "mysterious" fire at the properties they had just purchased, after which these grander homes would be built on the plots where the burned-down house used to be. Conveniently, with the insurance money they had just received.

[@waukee321]

Yeah it always seems interesting that after there's a fire on a historic property, the next thing you see is a Commercial real estate sign saying For Sale. Go figure.

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[@danacarter4793]

The materials in these older Treasures of Architecture,is unreplaceable,the wood is denser,and when they tear them down most of the time they don't even try to salvage useable materials,now ppl living in million dollar cardboard houses , SHAME ON THEM

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[@jeffpeelman2627]

The ruin of this house makes me sick at heart.

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[@edwardniessen]

If the city or town registers it, then they should fund the restoration. They could definitely sell bonds for the preservation.

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[@elijahbey3366]

British comedic actor Peter Sellers used to live there. True story...

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[@darlenejohnson8864]

How very sad to let something go down that way.

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[@teenac718]

How sad. Beautiful Home.

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[@markkotishion2379]

This mansion represents Baltimore City as a whole. Once beautiful, now rotting, and with a violent end.

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[@WaKincaid]

I believe in a privately funded Restore America 🇺🇸 trust , like England has , any buildings on the National register is where to start, adaptive reuse is a vision for America’s future

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[@kevintrey9903]

It seems like it all started with the idiot grandson (oh yeah he or 'it' was grand all right) and then everyone else in that 'city' didn't care at all about it...sad and sorry 'people' in that 'city'.

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[@SandraLily2]

Beautifully done video, and what a shame!

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[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Nice video. Disappointing end to a beautiful house.

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[@jeanbaker2087]

So sad......😢

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[@pumpupjam9648]

These homes constructed so long ago stood during the riots, the killings, the bad economy. Yet it still stood to the elements, till it was destroyed by a wrecking vall.

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[@jayneneewing2369]

I certainly hope an architectural preservationist was able to rescue some of the pieces. What a shame to let it just sit there for all of those years.

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[@theresadimaggio7241]

Very sad. Could have been saved

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[@colinbocher8102]

Where was this home?

[@RescuedIsMyBreed]

@@colinbocher8102 Baltimore, MD. You can read its interesting history on Wikipedia. Matthew Sellers mansion.

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[@philj9977]

@@colinbocher8102 Lafayette Square in Baltimore, Md

[@MaryM-xz5fs]

Who owned it? Who was responsible for maintenance? Who paid the property tax?

[@UrbanEyeAbandoned]

It was used as community initiative Operation CHAMP from 1967 to 1980. By the early 1990s, the mansion became vacant and was deteriorating. Thank you for watching and for your questions.

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

Urban blight. Sadly so common across our cities.

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[@franklesser5655]

Baltimore was once a great City. A shame it is now something else.

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[@MargaretFranklin-jy9wi]

So sad that it met its demise……a part of history again is gone to neglect!!!!!!

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[@arizonaarmadillo5829]

How did I know it would end up a charred ruin? Bal'more... 'nough said.

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[@dorothyvannote6861]

😢😢😢😢😢

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[@jrgnc1]

What a shame it was left to decay...

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[@timothyhoskins4081]

Sad. Just sad. They didn't know what they had.

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[@markduncan1477]

What a tragic loss to American historical architecture

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[@mauricioavanzi3402]

Lucky for those who designed, built and lived in this wonderful house. It's difficult to know the reason for his abandonment, however, invariably, heirs are shit... .

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[@krazmokramer]

Why waste the time, expense and energy to designate someplace on the National Register of Historic Places if you aren't going to preserve it and take care of it??????? We do such stupid and pointless things in our country.

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[@monkeygraborange]

Baltimore. Enough said.

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[@bertspeggly4428]

Criminal.

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[@bibit3856]

When you vote for ignorance

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[@michaelangelo-the-singer-br549]

I would have loved to save at least one staircase.

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