Abandoned House

ORIGINAL: Ratzilla

While I was out digging this weekend, discovered that this wonderful old 1734 house has suffered greatly since last I saw it... It's been vacant for two years or more, but was still in decent, lived in looking condition last time I saw it. Apparently it was accidently set on fire last fall by the vagrants living in it. The house is quite historic, was taken over by the British during the rev war and used by Abercrombie as his headquarters for a while, also used by the British for target practice from the river(presumably when Abercrombie wasn't there) and took several cannon hits. It's just a mess now, I walked through, the only good thing I can say is only the attic burned, the fire must have started there and the fire co. got on it fairly quick, the first two floor survived pretty much intact - vandals have broken (or stolen) the rest of the windows since. Would be nice to see it saved, but given the neighborhood I have my doubts...I'm sure your thinking '1734 house sitting wrecked and abandoned - did you dig the privy?' Actually, when new streets were laid though the area in the late 1800's, the entire backyard ended up under a new street, with the front of the house facing away from the street, so can't even dig the old pit. Bummer.

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There's a nice one in Concord MA but I doubt you could get permission. It looks about 1830 or so and has been boarded up for years. The minor glitch would be it's owned by the Comm. of Mass and the rear stables the State Police horses.
If the proposed bypass gets passed at the rotary there it will probably come down.
I never remember to bring a camera but I'll try to remember tomorrow, I go by it all the time. Stopping will be the biggest problem.

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