Loch Aerie Basement Tour
Sat, Apr 11, 2009
Gothic Revival, Historic Property Tours, Italianate, Victorian
Hopefully you’ve seen the rest of the house in our previous tour. Here is the bonus footage – a walk down into the basement and through the underground storage areas. This is the final footage to complete the tour of this magnificent property.
You can watch the tour via the video below or watch in the recommended method – full-screen high-definition by clicking here and once there, click on the four arrows in the lower right to expand to full screen.
Tags: basement, Frazer, Gothic, historic, home, house, Italianate, Loch Aerie, Lockwood, mansion, PA, stone, tour, Video
I have seen all of your coverage of this house. You did a great job! I lived in this mansion for 4 years with my family when I was in high school. (Long before the Home Depot was built on the “what was a corn feild at the time”. The peices on the Newel post were decorative to indicate that the mortgage was paid in full. The “storage area” next to the coupala was used to create a methane gas from sewage, which fed all of the indoor lighting.It was still in tact when I lived there. the room below the coupela was a ice storage room for food. The corridor aoutside the basement was used for coal storage (at the end where towards the sun room). The rear doors to the corridor were for coal delivery. I can tell you much more detail about the many rooms.. including the carriage building, and the servants house that used to be on the property. This video brings back many memmories of me and my family living in this mansion.
Fantatic Don, thanks for commenting. You don’t have any old photos from back then that you could share?
Great job, as I have left you a comment on youtube.
Your comments please!
Bill
thank you for sharing your experience with us. I can’t tell you how often I have driven past this mansion and wondered……I just passed by today and saw that there that there is an auction on the house by the owners. I wish I could..to preserve it and return it to its original state. I can hope whoever purchases it, respects its history and restores its integrity.
Thank you
Sara
Thanks so much for the basement tour, and the photographic tour of the main floors. A really wonderful job. I have seen the exterior of the home on a number of occasions, so to see the detailed exterior and interior photographs is a real treat. Thanks very, very much.
Just one additional note. There may be old stories about William Lockwood housing horses in the basement, but I feel this was extremely unlikely. The scale of the underground areas of this home are genuinely surprising, and the plain but substantial construction indicates they housed something of importance. Perhaps local diaries or newspapers would explain their purpose.
In my experience, however, large animals would have had great difficulty negotiating the low and narrow doorways and narrow passages in the basement. In addition, there is no existing convenient means to remove animal waste. While this may be the result of later alterations, there is no obvious indication of this. Large animals produce significant amounts of waste, and the smell and flies would have invaded the upper floors of this substantial and elegant home, making the use of this area as a stable inappropriate.
Again, thanks very much for the work these tours required, and the gracious permission of the listing agency to allow this.
Gregory Hubbard
Does anybody have updated pics? The mansion looks familiar, but I can’t place where it is located. Hopefully the new owners will restore this incredible home to its original grandeur.
Is it haunted?