1,605 Comments Posted by Jude

This breezeway is the best! This is the third time I've gone thru these photos (I come back to look again when I'm bored at work) and Taunton is one of my favorites. All that curved wood is incredible.
Hopefully some of this was salvaged. Such as waste to have it all destroyed :-(

Once again, thank you for a journey back in time with your great photos.
Be well Mr. Motts!

That stove is incredible!! Is that a butlers pantry behind the door?
I would love to have a kitchen like this!!

Nice view of the little tower in the garden.

Oh-oh/ A little water damage. Doesn't look to bad though.
It certainly could be repaired. I can picture in my mind the rooms
cleaned up and furnished with antiques and tapestries. It would be
wonderful!

This is awesome! Perhaps the false door frame was meant to have
some sort of statuary on a pedestal in front of it to offset the fireplace.
Really beautiful craftsmanship! I agree eldokid. It does have a church-
like quality.

I can't believe someone hasn't come around to salvage this place.
It's such a waste to let this wonderful architecture just sit and rot.
I would buy this in a heartbeat if i could afford it. Maybe I will win
the lottery.... :-)

How very cool it would be to live in your own castle!!
Thanks for the new gallery Mr. Motts!

I'm with you Autoguy. Hopefully the stone was given to some family member as memento. My grandparents had a building in Detroit built in the 1920s that had a cornerstone with my Granddads initials engraved and the year. It was removed and passed down thru the family, oldest son to oldest son etc. when the building was demolished.

Great shot!! Gives an idea of the size of the buildings. You were right in your opening story about expecting to see beautiful staircases and such remains inside. This looks more like an ancient castle than a storage facility!

So happy you had a chance to revisit this place! Amazing and fascinating architecture for an island that was basically storage warehouses. Glad to hear they're salvaging the remains. It will be worth the trip to New York when the tours start up.
Great pics as always. Thanks for the wonderful new gallery :-).

Love the stairways!! This must have been quite beautiful in it's day.

One mans trash.....
This sofa doesn't look like its been outdoors for too very long.
At least it will make a nice little nest for the neighborhood chip monks and mice on these cold winter nights.

Sandy, I would bet those metal things are to hold posts for some sort of railing or fencing to keep the residents from jumping or falling off of the bridge.

Hooray!!! A new gallery! The absolute highlight of my week!!
Thank you Mr. Motts for both the pics and the history lesson. Yours is the only site of this kind that give us so much info on the past of the locations you photograph. You are truly one of a kind! Please keep up
the excellent work :)