This property is located along the shores of Lake Ontario. It’s valued at approximately $4.5 million dollars. The owners plan to demolish it to build a new two-storey home.

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This location was sent to me by a follower who wanted to see closer photos of it. I drove to it not realizing my camera was set to take 700 pixel photos.

The story of this house goes back a few years. A man named Richard who is employed as a teacher, owned a home on the same lot where this one now stands. In 2014, neighbours noticed the house in flames and called 911. According to the Ontario Fire Marshall, the fire “looked suspicious”.

The OFM investigator couldn’t find the cause of the fire and the investigation was turned over to the local police. At the time, Richard was working on the home to build a three car garage and was still under construction at the time of the fire.

The home was purchased for $715,000 and burned not long after. The new home (pictured) was built in 2020. It’s pretty much only a finished exterior as the interior is bare. It appears that construction is an ongoing process. Several members of the community indicate that construction has been halted for some time, possibly due to financial issues. Others say that construction is ongoing with several cars being seen on the property some days.

Note: This house is not abandoned in the sense that it’s been completely forgotten about, and is owned by someone. Please don’t approach.

Cell photos of a house in prime real estate territory that’s destined to be demolished if the rezoning application goes through.

This was the home of Melville who was born in 1906. He married a woman named Ruth, also born in 1906 and together they raised six children: J., G., R., G., V. and V. The family were Jehovah’s Witnesses which is evident in the 35 mm slide photos. The photos, taken in 1972, show an assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses which likely saw members from around the world attend.

Melville passed away in 1980, and Ruth passed away in 1970. Shortly after Melville passed away, the house was transferred to one of the sons. The son would have been about 41 when he inherited the house from his father. Interestingly enough, there was another house title transfer in 2006 but with the same names on the title.

The house was lived in between 2006-2008 so I’m inclined to think that it was vacated around that time.

The house was built in 1870.

This is what I would call a time crapsule. It contains some great memories preserved in time, but due to the messy state of the interior, isn’t well suited to photography. There was so much stuff on the floor, in the sink, and strewn about, that the interior didn’t photograph well. I decided to go for documentation over well framed photos.

Entry to the house is difficult. The porch is rotten and there is debris blocking the doorway. You have to slide your way past electrical wire missing its outer insulation. In order to enter the house, my body literally had to touch the hydro line. There is working power inside!

As for who’s paying the hydro, I believe that the son lives nearby in a more modern house. It’s unclear why they moved out of the other house, but I can only guess due to the aging state of it.

The main floor contains computer equipment, hundreds of old 35mm slides, and two video cameras.

The kitchen is very messy. If you examine the photos of the 35 mm slides, you’ll notice that the tiles on the wall in the kitchen match exactly with the video of the kitchen. These photos were taken inside the house. Also the exterior window brick design matches that of the slides.

There were a lot of papers and letters to be found. This is the type of location one could spend hours in, gathering information and looking through drawers, etc. I was somewhat rushed because my exploring companion was unable to safely make it through the doorway due to the hydro wires and so he waited outside. For that reason, and the messy state of the house, there are limited photos and video footage.

Upstairs, I discovered a room filled with movie video laserdiscs a wall full of baseball hats from which the location found it’s name. I didn’t spend a lot of time exploring the upper portion of the house as by now I was wanting to get back to my exploring companion.

There are calendars dated 1984 and 2008 as if the house is broken up into two different times in history.

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518 35mm slides dated between 1972 to 1975

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This location was shared with me by a Facebook follower. She’d driven past the house many times and was curious to know what the interior looked like. She had reassured me that the neighbours opposite the house (always gotta be a neighbour opposite a house even in rural areas) went to bed early and were likely seniors.

I sat on the location for a few months until finally seeing an opportunity to visit it in July of 2023. We weren’t sure what to expect, whether it was occupied or in seasonal use. The giveaway was the front windows which were broken. I noticed a small padlock on the front door with the rusted keys still inside of it. The hasp wasn’t attached to the door, so we went inside.

There wasn’t anything particularly remarkable about the house, the best feature being the exterior design.

The main floor windows featured the deep frame windows often found in vintage homes.

This falls under urban exploration as the house was sold in May of 2023 and is by no means abandoned. It’s what I’d consider to be ‘filler’ for a day of exploring. The house was on the market for $3,000,000.

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Note: This is a continuation of the same property exploration. The first post is found here.

This property was purchased in 2015 by a couple looking for an investment property. They’d originally been renting the garage to use as a workshop area. Three years after renting, the owners asked the couple if they’d be interested in purchasing the full property. The couple agreed. They undertook renovations to the house and rented it out to two families. (There are actually three properties on the property, all of which were explorable)

In October of 2021, the Ministry of Transportation approached the couple and made on offer on the property. The MTO was looking to build a bypass and in order to do so, have to take ownership of five properties along the current highway.

The couple felt that the offer was well below the market value of the land and refused it. Because an agreement could not be reached between the ministry and property owners, the ministry notified them that they intended to expropriate the property under the Expropriations Act.

The couple hired a lawyer, who informed them that it could be up to a year before any progress was made on the expropriation. While they were not against the building of the highway, they wished they were given more notice and fair compensation for the home they worked so hard to obtain and maintain.

In January of 2022, they received a registered letter informing them that they had 90 days to vacate the property. They asked the MTO for an extension in order that they could find a new property and take their tenants with them. The MTO refused.

As of May 2022, the couple no longer owns the property and they continue to negotiate a buy and sell agreement with the MTO. Protests against the bypass have sprung up on social media including a Facebook page.

Thanks to RP_Explorations for sharing his find with me.

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In this video, we conquer your question of, “If the lights are on and there’s no dust, is it really abandoned?”

This property was purchased in 2015 by a couple looking for an investment property. They’d originally been renting the garage to use as a workshop area. Three years after renting, the owners asked the couple if they’d be interested in purchasing the full property. The couple agreed. They undertook renovations to the house and rented it out to two families. (There are actually three properties on the property, all of which were explorable)

In October of 2021, the Ministry of Transportation approached the couple and made on offer on the property. The MTO was looking to build a bypass and in order to do so, have to take ownership of five properties along the current highway.

The couple felt that the offer was well below the market value of the land and refused it. Because an agreement could not be reached between the ministry and property owners, the ministry notified them that they intended to expropriate the property under the Expropriations Act.

The couple hired a lawyer, who informed them that it could be up to a year before any progress was made on the expropriation. While they were not against the building of the highway, they wished they were given more notice and fair compensation for the home they worked so hard to obtain and maintain.

In January of 2022, they received a registered letter informing them that they had 90 days to vacate the property. They asked the MTO for an extension in order that they could find a new property and take their tenants with them. The MTO refused.

As of May 2022, the couple no longer owns the property and they continue to negotiate a buy and sell agreement with the MTO. Protests against the bypass have sprung up on social media including a Facebook page.

Thanks to RP_Explorations for sharing his find with me.

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This house was built in 1972 and it retains much of the original design including original kitchen cupboards, stove and kitchen island. The front entrance also appears to be the original construction.

It’s owned by a Mr. Cerundolo, who is a landlord of many properties including an oceanside property in Florida. He purchased the house in 2015 for $1,650,000. Prior to 2003, it belonged to the Taherzadeh family. It was last rented by the Gillies family. In one of the bedrooms I found discarded painted art by the Gillies daughter.

There are actually three units in this building: the main house, a basement unit and an attached rental unit. The basement unit features a bar with an arched brick design. The property has a swimming pool in the back.

There’s a rezoning application for this property which leads to me believe that the house will be demolished and a new property built.

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Exploration Photos 2023

I know, some of the photos aren’t perfectly straight. 🙂

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(video stabilization was turned off, sorry)

I first visited this house back in 2015. The location was shared with me by the niece, whose Aunt owns the house. You can read the history of the house here. Some of the highlights:

– The house (as I’m told) was built by Native slaves
– Ownership of the house was stolen after death of the owner, through a forged will
– During the 1970’s, an elderly man used to store auto parts in a shack on the property. When he didn’t leave at the end of the day, the family discovered he’d died in the shack.

The house hasn’t changed much in the eight years since my initial visit. The front door has been boarded as have a couple of others and there’s now signage for 24-hour video monitoring. Someone has broken the glass in the front and side doors (now boarded over) in an attempt to gain entry.

The roof has developed holes and the ceiling has fallen down in parts of the house.

These photos have it all: lens flare, distortion, light blowout, white balance issues, noise and crookedness. They’re absolutely terrible… and don’t do this location justice.

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