Urban explorer and YouTube user TikiTrex is about to take you on a fascinating video tour through a very large, very abandoned, and very well-known house in London, ON.
Here's what we know about the home: It was built in the 1880s and was originally a men's athletic or boating club, or possibly a drinking club, which guests needed a boat to reach. The previous owners of this house and property were architects who sold the house to land developer Drewlo Holdings in 1978 due to a divorce. The barn was known as "The Cottage" and the house was known as "The Cedars," which had been kept in the family since the time it was purchased from the boat club. The previous occupants rented this property from Holdings for 35 years and were evicted in the summer of 2013 for their lack of care. They had ponies and bred mastiff dogs.
One YouTube commenter who knew the family that last rented the property said, "There was a top paddock for horses and bottom paddock and barn. They had horses for equestrian riding, American quarter horses. The mother bred bull mastiffs and kept the pups in the room to the left of the bottom door. The ladder was a short cut from upstairs down to the kitchen."
The property remained in gorgeous condition — until vandals struck. For example, in the video, you can see someone used red paint to emulate blood dripping down the walls. Tragically, the rooms are now completely trashed.
Bruce Lamb grew up in this house from 1965–1978 and provided Tiki with the home's background information. Since seeing this video, he's now trying to get it "Heritage designated" to protect it from being demolished by the developer. Houses over 100 years old can get the Heritage designation. It doesn't matter when someone lived in it last, and people can even live in Heritage designated houses.
The hard work going into protecting the home has since made the news, as this house been a landmark in the Ontario town's history.
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