This Old House

As we drove through Mississippi, I had to make a detour to visit this grand old home.



The house was built in 1892, in the late Victorian Queen Anne style. The house was occupied until the 1990s, but sadly it has been left empty and abandoned. But even in its advanced state of decay, you can see so many architectural charms. There are the numerous stained glass windows. There are the wooden gingerbread embellishments. There are the remains of the delicate decorations around the front porch. Compare this to the cookie-cutter McMansions you see in the sprawling suburbs of today. They definitely don't make them like this anymore.



This old house seems to truly encompass the tragic nature of abandoned places. There was such care and talent put into building this home. Generations of people lived here. But for whatever reason, it was left abandoned. It was forgotten, and left to detoriate and rot and collapse.

Perhaps it can still be saved. Every place has a history, and has a story. It feels like this place still has room for another chapter in its history.