Abandonment Issues: McCarrell Farm As Is

Let us take a walk together, shall we?

Its nice to meet you, we find ourselves walking up a long winding driveway on a county road on the southeast outskirts of Peterborough, Ontario. We've already met and exchanged pleasantries, shared a few laughs, parked and walked in past the real estate sign that lists the property for sale, and the NO TRESPASSING sign that first caught our attention. I told you what I knew about the property at the same moment that an iphone google search of the address and the real estate firm told me. $160,000. 50 acres with farmhouse, barn and quonset hut, as is. Landfill adjacent. Property, well, septic and structures being sold as is...further fine print.



And here we are, exploring the McCarrell farmhouse, not uttering a single word to each other.

Abandon men tissues


The kitchen is closed


12 YRS BRAD 07


Liv in groom


Bee yourself


Mirror mirror on the floor...


Well hung


Child's World & Nature's Children books


A Convenient, Up-to-date and Comprehensive Medical Guide for the Layman


Love on the Rocks


Bedroom shovel


Going down on the McCarrell farm


None of us bother venturing into this basement due to the overwheming odor


We walk outside and share another laugh, it is not for me to repeat who says what. We wander into the barn and the fierce wind rattles the barn boards on the ceiling, some of them loose and clapping hard against the support beams.

Garage bland


Truck stop


Squatspot


Holy floor


Behind the barn, the quonset hut has collapsed. Hopefully you are willing to accompany me through this space age wreckage, even with the 35 km per hour winds rocking the structure to and fro.

See you on the other side


Science friction


Deep space 9mm


Tremors


Tremors II: Aftershocks


We take one last look back at the house


Until next time my fellow explorer, this is where we part ways.

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Abandonment Issues: Kirby Fruit Stand Farmhouse & Dog Kennel

The Christmas lights were still up on this abandoned farmhouse on the side of the highway through Kirby, Ontario, during the visit captured in these images in April of 2011. A small barn and remnants of a burnt down highway-side fruit and vegetable stand were within a few dozen feet of the beautiful old stone house.





We had stopped here a few times prior to that visit, but until that day, it had been sealed tight. On that day however, the wooden plank that formerly covered the door was resting on the dry brown grass, and the screen door was lying on the hallway floor inside, the BEWARE OF DOG sign still in the window. The gorgeous hardwood floors, immaculate bathrooms, and the sketches and children's hand prints on the walls of the second floor play room were the highlights of the interior. Oh, and a set of house keys hanging on a hook just inside the door. Hardwood floors and beautiful crown molding throughout, provoking one of the explorers present on that day to utter those words that are spoken too often nowadays...

"They sure don't make houses like they used to."

The carpet matches the blinds, and the hoarding


Sinking to the floor and losing focus


Shower curtain call


Basement at high tide


Mirror mirror on the wall...


Down stares


Flower child's room


Gimme a hand


Winnie the Pooh flower collage


Free bird


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Riding the rails


Floor bored


Auto STOP


BEGONIA IX


Bacon lattice tomato


Another brick in the wall


Fibres


Fruit and veggie stand


On a later visit, after noticing a car parked out front, I stopped to investigate.

Sure enough, a pair of nomadic criminal squatters were inside chain smoking and crushing 40s of OE & Black Ice. I sparked an L and passed it to the left. They were quick to share tales from their journey, including openly discussing a robbery they committed down south.

I asked them to get rid of the bottles when they left and was shocked the next day when there was no sign of the pair or their bottles.

Again, just last week, Dallas1983 and I stopped by here, only to find the house is once again re-sealed, and the small barn that was standing behind the house on previous visits, had been burnt to the ground.

Dallas 1983 and I also stopped in at the abandoned Kirby Dog Kennel, on the other side of the highway. Not an overly interesting place, but worthy of note.



















Thanks again for stopping by, hope to see you again soon.

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