Look up first. In the bedroom of the Globe House, the ceiling is papered edge to edge with postcards, a dense collage of blue skies, buildings and landscapes pasted overhead until the plaster disappears. It is the strangest single surface in this house, and it is also the most personal: someone chose to cover the ceiling of the room they slept in with pictures of other places.
The house itself is an old derelict building photographed by Luke2Explore in a post dated 14 November 2024. The poster calls the bedroom and the main living room the two rooms that matter most, the core of a time capsule left behind, and says he will let the pictures do the talking. This article does the same, with one honest addition: how long the house stood empty is not known. The poster says so plainly, and says it has to have been quite some time. That is the only dating the post offers, and none is invented here.
A ceiling papered with postcards
The bedroom photograph rewards a slow look. Below the postcard ceiling, framed pictures hang on white and teal walls, a bed sits made with a pink cover, and a low wooden unit stands under the window with papers scattered on the floor. The ceiling is the room’s argument. Postcards are usually kept in drawers or pinned to a board. Pasting them across a ceiling takes time, reach and intent, and it turns a bedroom into something between a scrapbook and a map of the world.
Nobody in the post explains who did it or why. That gap is worth leaving open. A ceiling like this could be one person’s long project or a household habit that grew over years. What the photograph proves is only that it was done, carefully, and that it survived whatever empty years followed. The postcards are faded and curled at the edges in places, but they are still there, still overhead, still the first thing anyone entering the room would notice.
The globe, the typewriter and the framed photographs
If the bedroom is personal, the living room is the house’s public face, and its objects are the kind people choose to display. A globe on its stand, an old typewriter, framed photographs and books: these are the things a household puts where visitors can see them. The globe is the object that gives the house its name, and it is easy to see why. It is a deliberate, slightly old-fashioned centrepiece, the sort of thing that says its owners were interested in the world beyond their own walls.
The typewriter says something adjacent but different. A globe is for looking at the world. A typewriter is for writing about it, or for the ordinary paperwork of a household: letters, lists, forms. Put together with the framed photographs, the living room reads as a room for memory and correspondence, for keeping track of people and places. That reading is an interpretation of the photographs, not a fact from the post, and it is offered as such.
What the two rooms disagree about
The bedroom and the living room do not tell quite the same story, and the difference is the most interesting thing about this house.
| Bedroom | Living room | |
|---|---|---|
| Main feature | Ceiling papered with postcards | Globe on its stand |
| What it shows | Private habit, done for the sleeper | Display objects, chosen to be seen |
| Other contents | Framed pictures, a made bed, scattered papers | Typewriter, framed photographs, books |
| What it suggests | A personal, long-running project | A household that kept records and memories |
The bedroom suggests someone who lived inside their own pictures. The living room suggests someone who kept the tools for writing and remembering. Neither room, on its own, would earn the house its name. Together, they make a small, coherent portrait of people who were interested in the world and in keeping track of it, and who left both habits behind in the rooms where they practised them.
How long is “quite some time”?
The outside of the house gives the only other evidence of time. The white render is stained and streaked, upstairs windows are broken and boarded, the front door is boarded, and grass and weeds have taken the ground in front. A tall brick chimney is wrapped in dead ivy. None of that dates the abandonment. Boarded windows and broken panes can appear in a year or a decade, and the post does not narrow it down.
So the honest statement is short: the house is derelict, its rooms are still furnished with personal objects, and nobody in the source says when it was last lived in. Readers who collect abandoned houses will recognise the pattern. Some houses announce their dates with calendars and newspapers. This one announces only its interests, pasted to a ceiling and standing on a globe’s axis. The rest is [TO VERIFY].
More houses left in this state are gathered in the Abandoned Houses category. For the contrast with a house that is lived in and on the market, see this 1902 home in Alexandria, Minnesota. The site’s front page is abandoned.blog.
FAQ
Where is the Globe House?
The post gives no location, and no address is given here.
Why is it called the Globe House?
Because of the globe on its stand in the living room, the object the poster singles out.
What is on the bedroom ceiling?
Postcards, pasted across the whole ceiling, as shown in the photograph. Who put them there and when is not stated.
How long has the house been abandoned?
Not known. The poster says he is not sure, but that it has to have been quite some time. No date is claimed here.
What else is left inside?
A globe, a typewriter, framed photographs and books in the living room, and a made bed, framed pictures and scattered papers in the bedroom, as shown in the photographs.
Is the house for sale?
Not stated in the post. No price, listing or sale status is given here.
Can I visit it?
No visiting information is given here, and entering private property without permission is not encouraged.
Disclaimer
This article is general information only, not legal, tax, or financial advice. Rules on abandoned and private property differ by state and county; check county/local records and a local professional before acting.
Photos
Photos by Luke2Explore, via the original Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/Luke2Explore/posts/the-abandoned-globe-house-this-old-derelict-house-was-an-interesting-explore-wit/989274719904883/ — 5 of the 37 photos are shown here.
