Greatest Abandoned Gilded-Age Mansion in USA ~ Save Lynnewood Hall!

The floorplans you used were created by me. I took existing floorplans and cleaned them up and posted them to Flickr. I always get a tingle of joy when I see them used in professional productions, although I wouldn't mind credit being given.

It should be restored back to its former glory, then used as a luxury historical hotel, hosting dinners and dances, perhaps wedding venue rental, and the art galleries turned into mini museums of local and national paintings and artifacts. This would bring in lots of business and tourist dollars to continue the preservation I would think!

Thankfully there is now a dedicated Preservation society for historic buildings and this famous and breathtaking home is on that list 💪

Bros, im a plumber, and my read of the tunnels is this, the major pipeline running the length of the hall is likely for rain water collection, it would run down to the large pool as you saw, that room is a cistern, which is an underground tank for storing rainwater. This would also act as an emergency water supply for the people upstairs and the staff if there was ever a need. Then they simply drew on it to run the fountains, thus it wouldnt cost them water costs to have those magic fountains. Excellent set up, thanks for showing us these parts of the place. The mechanism to open the skylights from the gallery into the ceiling was likely for temperature control. Art is finicky about temp so features like that were important but also for maintaining comfortably for guests and parties in summer.

What a life it would have been to be born into a prosperous family of the Gilded Era.

This is literally 5 minutes from my home!!!!!!!!! Would love to see them renovate and preserve this beauty!

I’ve admired Lynnewood Hall for a long time. Never did I think I would get to see the inside. This documentary combined with the narration and stories will forever be remembered. Amazing and so well done. Thank you and your videographer for making this video.

These guys are the classiest urbex explorers!!! They don't have to sneak into a property. They just make a call and are allowed in!! Thank you gentlemen!

Peter’s grandson, Harry Elkins Widener, perished on the Titanic. It was a sincere privilege to work at The Widener Library, established in his honor, when I was a Harvard Undergrad. Also, Julian Abele, was the architect that designed Widener Library and Duke University. He has gone uncredited for over a century because he was African American. Harvard and Duke have amended their official records to reflect the veracity of this history.

I have been following this mansion for years. I am so glad they are trying save it. What a masterpiece!

Oh my gosh! I have waited decades to witness this magnificent historical mansion in this format! I have seen sooo many urban explorations of this place but never in this amount of detail. Lesley, you showed us things noone ever showed us before! Adding historical details along with your explore is what makes this a well done and professional documentary. I have longed to see someone come in to save this fabulous building ....I hope the new efforts can produce that goal.

Hands down this was the best tour of this property I’ve ever seen. AND hats off to your camera man. He did an EXCELLENT job as always brother! 👍

I would like to thank everyone who took part in bringing this documentary to us. The energy, effort and research involved must have been tremendous.

I'm only halfway through and I have to say that this is fascinating! This property needs to be protected at all costs. Having the reference photographs is also so great and a real treat to see the way in which they decorated the house. Very impressive! This is one of the best mansion property tours I have seen. And having the experts there to explain the history was great - it makes you truly appreciate what this mansion was and is.

How fun to be a kid in a house like that, so much exploring and hide-n-seek would be insane.

Holy cow, how’d this even happen? I thought this place was doomed to rot like a lot of historical places in America. Shocking it’s not vandalized either with the way America is heading. Congratulations, this is HUGE

The mansion is absolutely stunning and I so appreciated the opportunity to hear and see the history behind it. Thank you, Leslie, for leading us through this astounding home, and thanks to Edward and Angie for welcoming us and for caring enough to save this magnificent piece of history.

Can you imagine living there? Calling it home? It's so beautiful !!!! Thank you for filming this n sharing it's History. It's so amazing !!!

The house represents America perfectly, from glory to decay. It can still be saved, but it's going to take a miracle ..

This is the most detailed explore of this house I've ever seen. I especially like seeing the pictures of what it used to look like.