Abandoned House Shoot 1

 Dawn Valley Road

This house was also a questionable one, but it had the same architectural style of a lot of the older ones, so I took a guess that maybe it had been kept up well over the years and has the bones of an older house. From the looks of it, it seemed abandoned. I didn’t think it was the most beautiful empty house I’d ever seen, but I liked that it was different, had that questionable circumstance, and was framed and partly hidden by two front trees.

Hale School Road

This house was quite pretty. The front yard on either side of the house was lined with big old trees and gave it a mysterious and charming feel. It seemes to be quite old, and was a decent size. There were intricate gables at the peak of this house and also beautiful detail in the frame of the top window. Besides the peeling paint it seemed to be in pretty decent shape.

Dawn Valley Road

This was a strange little square shack. I don’t know how more than two people would have ever lived in it. It seemed pretty empty since you could see right through it at some spots. The odd thing was that the steel roof seemed fairly new. It was either quite durable and had lasted, or it was recently or is still used for something. This house also had shrubbery in front of it blocking my shot, so I had to move as little as possible to the left, and so it is not completely frontal.

Dawn Valley Road

This house also frustratingly enough had shrubbery blocking my shot, so it also isn’t fully frontal. It was another questionable one because the farm around it seemed to be used and the grass was kept cut. It looked however, like it had the bones of an older house again because of the style.

Tramway Road

This was the second house we came upon, and what a gem. It was clearly very old and in it’s day must have been a wonder! It was red brick, and two stories with a small porch on the front of it. The very peak was made into a skylight, still in one piece. Most of it was covered in vine and the porch was crumbling. It seems like it would be a very good house to find some really old letters, pictures, and antiques in!

Tramway Road

This house was brick as well, and we found it on the same road as the first one. It also had quite a bit of character, brick, two story, with a cute little covered front porch and some neat windows. It was in surprisingly decent shape.

Tramway Road

Wow, this house made for my favourite shots of the day. It was set back in the field and had beans planted in front of it that were about ready to be harvested and dried out. The brick and windows had all been removed and it was just bare bones. It was quite beautiful and you could see right through the windows out the other side. I don’t know how safe this house would be to go inside, but some scenery shots out of the windows would be very begat to do.

(Also Tramway Road)

Tramway Road

This house is quite ugly, and I’m not super happy with the way the shots turned out. It looks like it had been lived in within the last decade or two. It had about the same frame as the amazing one before it but lacked the character. It seems like it would be a junk house inside.

Kent Line

This house is down my Aunt and Uncles Road. It is a fairly boring looking house, the standard square style with few windows and no intricacies. I remember from when I was younger driving by that there were people living there, so it was likely inhabited within the last decade.

Lambton Line

I’ve driven by this house plenty of times, as it’s on a fairly busy highway but is surrounded by inhabited houses and set back from the road. I always liked the architecture of it and I think it would have been a pretty smart house in it’s day. It’s an alright shot but I think it would be more interesting shot when all the leaves of the growth around its front are gone.

Starkweather Line

This house had a bit of a different feel. It is on the border of wondering it the house is really abandoned or if the occupants vehicle just wasn’t there. My father used to rent this farm from the occupant, and sadly he recently passed away. He was a bachelor who didn’t mind living modestly and so the house appears rundown. It is a pretty old house, but the closed in porch addition on the front makes it look a little newer.

Wabash Line

This was the very last house we documented that day. It was a very small house. In it’s time however I think it would have been fairly nice for it’s size. There was quite a bit grown in around it and I had to hold down branches to get a good shot. From a different angle I could see all the way through it and I think it hadn’t been lived in for a long time.

 Flat Rock Road

This house may have given me the willies the worst of all the houses. It was situated up on quite a big hill, so I was unable to get a straight on shot of it. There was also too many trees blocking the front of it and so it is from below and the side. It looked like an old log cabin style house, and like it hadn’t been inhabited for quite some time. I’m certain it would be very interesting inside.

Tramway Road

This was the very first house we found, It was fairly old, but seemed to be in alright shape from the outside. Most of the windows were boarded up and it seemed like some sort of porch or stairs had been taken off. There wasn’t much around it except for two big trees in the front that prevented me from getting the shot I wanted.

Gould Road

This was a pretty neat little house. It was surrounded by what looked like would have been a decent little working farm. It was very small and only one story. Due to it’s size I think no one would have lived in it for quite some time, or if they had it would have been a lonely person, and the things inside might be telling.