The DiCamillo Companion - Help Page: Extant

Extant

Extant refers to the status of a house today, i.e., is it standing or demolished. You can search by seven terms that appear in the drop-down menu:

Unknown - Information about the house is unavailable or unknown

Fully Extant - The house stands completely intact as it was built, with no demolition of any of its parts.

Partially Extant - The house is still standing and is probably occupied, but has had wings or other sections demolished.

Derelict - The house has probably been abandoned and is in poor shape, but is still basically intact.

Shell - Most of the house's exterior walls are still standing, but it has no roof.

Ruin - Only a small portion of the walls of the house remain; possibly only a basement or outline is left.

Destroyed - The house has been completely destroyed; no physical evidence of it exists today.

These categories refer only to the house; many estates where the house has been destroyed still have beautiful gardens, follies, and outbuildings that are intact that are open to the public; thus, the sometimes confusing listing of a house that's listed as being destroyed and open to the public!

Please note that we concentrate on only one house and refer to its extant status, even if there were multiple houses by the same name on the site. Thus, if there was a 15th century house, one built in the 18th century, and third built in the 20th century, only one house will be the focus of our record. Accordingly, in the above example, if the 18th century house was the house of record, we would list the house as being demolished, even though a house by the same name exists on the site, having been built in the 20th century to replace the demolished 18th century one, which in turn replaced the demolished 15th century house. In the section "History / Gardens & Park / Movies" you would then find the 15th century house listed in the section entitled Earlier House(s) / Building(s) and the 20th century house listed in the section entitled House Replaced By, but the 18th century house would be the star and the focus of our record.

Please remember that this database is a work-in-progress and that many, many houses have yet to have their extant status entered.

If you know of a house that's extant, a ruin, or demolished, and we have that house listed as "Unknown" in the "Extant" field, please email us your information so we can update the record!
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