Blindhill Place

Main Entrance, showing Basement Door Main Door, Fountain and Old Barn

Map located in the Corridor

**Blindhill Place** is a mansion located in Gloomvile County, about 80 miles (128 km) away from it's capital, Gloomvile. It's the location where the entire game takes place. The mansion consists of two-story main house, servant house, an alley, a graveyard and a path leading to the lake Taelnor.

## History

It's unknown when the mansion was built, but it was occupied well before the Bakers moved in there. The year when Bakers moved in is also unknown, but this took place after Agatha was born (1987) and before 1991 (evidence of this year is in the patent in Bedroom, stating about Cristopher Baker's invention). By this time, mansion was abandoned. Since the main house does not contain any XX and XXI century technical appliances (except the Elevator, Projection Unit and a Cell Phone), it was left abandoned long before the Bakers moved in and three named appliances were bought by them. Despite the absence of the modern tech, the house has two mechanisms inside the walls: one is the bookcase passage between Library and Sitting Room and another is a hatch connecting the Sitting Room and Basement Archive. It's unknown whether these were installed by Bakers or before them.

The Bakers tried to insoul the place. Cristopher hired two servants, Jacob and Emily Carlyle, and built a special house for them. He also tried to have cell phone towers installed near the mansion. A letter adressed to the mayor of Gloomvile about this problem can be found in the Sitting Room. He apparently failed to do so, as the cell phone in the same room has no network connection. Another thing Bakers made was the Dam Mechanism. It was built in 1991 on the Lake and allowed to lower or rise water level near the shore and purify it.

The Baker couple died in 1997 in a car crash, leaving Agatha alone with the servants. The girl (and, with her, Emily) died two years later, leaving Jacob alone. He still lives in the mansion, which, until 2011, was haunted by Agatha's ghost.

## Structure

### Outside

The mansion's territory is large. The main house is located south, with the barn near it. To the north from the house is the Alley, which has passages to the Graveyard and the Lake. Graveyard, aside graves, contains Crypt that houses remains of the Bakers and a Pavillion. Lake shore has a Booth probably used for observing the enviroment. There is a Dam Grate which can decrease and increase water level via special lever mounted on a small wooden pier.

### Main House

The main house (which can be itself called "a mansion") is a large two-story building with two floors and one below the ground. Foundation level consists of main basement room, a Storage Room and the Basement Archive (the latter could probably be previously used as a library).

The ground floor is non-residential. Sitting Room serves as main room, which is so large that it can be divided into two parts: east and west. Eastern part has a separate room for Aquarium. There is also a separated part of the floor, containing the Library and its Storage Room. They are connected to the Sitting Room with the secret passage in a bookcase. The Library and the Basement Archive are connected via Elevator.

The upper (aka second/first) floor is residential, since it consist of two bedrooms and a Corridor that connects them and the ground floor (via staircase in the Sitting Room). The Master Bedroom is to the left of the Corridor, and that's where the Bakers used to live. The second bedroom is a Nursery, which was the place where Agatha used to live. Judging by amount of rooms and their area, the upper floor is smaller than the ground one. There is no evidence of attic in the house.

### Servant House

This is the small cozy house which was built by Christopher Baker for the Carlyles. It is much smaller than the main house and consists only of two floors. The main (ground) floor consists of two rooms: main Servant Room and the Bathroom. Servant Room has a ladder which leads to the Attic.

## Trivia

* The first cutscene features an early depiction of the mansion, without any alley or lake passage. The main house is shown standing on the side of a road. This does not correspond to the game scene (see Main Entrance), where no highway is visible.
	+ Accordiong to the map in the Corridor, there is a river flowing into the lake. However, in the same cutscene there is no evidence of any bridge: the player's car is simply riding to Gloomvile.
	+ Using these two facts, we can assume that this cutscene was made before the game's lore was detailed.
* There is no evidence of a kitchen or a bathroom in the main house. Reason for this is unknown.
* The Servant House was never shown from the outside. However, the second installment of the Alley (during the lake search) shows a house wall on the right. This may be the either the Servant House or another structure which was not shown in the game.

1. ↑ "Upper" word is used because of differences in British and American English. American "second floor" is equal to British "first floor".