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Abandoned Old House

Abandoned & decaying old house near Chamois Missouri. This old place looks like it was built in the mid to late 1800's, perhaps from the Civil War era. There's a big hill on the south side of town and this was up on the steep hillside probably a couple hundred feet up and would have had a full view of the small town below. The house is oriented so that the setting sun would shine in the round window, probably making a pretty pattern in the front room. The upper story originally had wooden shingles which would have been nice looking but was later covered over with asbestos siding/shingles. Amazing to me that this is abandoned.

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Uploaded on January 10, 2008
Taken on January 3, 2008