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Posted: 01 Sep 2022

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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?
2 years 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.
2 years ago.
 Alan Mays
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Wow, that's really nice! Your glass plate negatives produce great images.
2 years ago.

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