46-Bedroom Abandoned Texas Mega Mansion Finds New Life

When buying a "big" house, you generally get a home of around 4,000 square feet. That is over twice the size of an average home in Texas.

Double wouldn't do for the "Manvel Mansion". It comes in at a whopping 63,000 square feet and has 46 bedrooms.

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According to digg.com, the enormous structure in Manvel, Texas (22 miles south of Houston) sat vacant for almost 20 years after they broke ground in 2001. Builders were around 80% complete when the owners decided it was too big.

Texas Mega Mansion Sat For Over 20 Years After Construction

The original owner was Dr. Ulysses Watkins. He and his wife built the massive home with the idea of eventually filling all of the rooms with foster children.

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Ironically after sitting for 20 years, children will have a big role to play in the structure's future. Its current owner, Jim Youngblood, bought the property in 2007.

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He tried to unload the property to no avail. It was vandalized multiple times and continued to sit vacant, so Youngblood changed his tactics in 2019 by attempting to rent it.

Giant Abandoned Texas Mansion Now Holds Church, Daycare, And More

In 2020 after many renovations, Youngblood now has a church and a daycare inside what everyone still calls "The Mansion". That took up about 20K feet of the building.

There are also a handful of other tenants, with about 500 square feet of space each. There is still plenty of room left in the Mansion.