During a recent excursion to Arden, NY I came across this wonderful, ruined house. I would probably have missed it, but my friend Karen spotted it and drew my attention to it.

You can see that it’s quite large. What you can’t see is that it’s situated right next to a brook. It must have been a nice location once upon a time.

Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about it’s history so we can only guess what it must have been like in its heyday and wonder what happened to cause it to end up in this condition.

I imagine that its only a matter of time before it collapses completely or until someone demolishes it.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II