What famous home from a TV show would you like to live in?

[LilBit]

Re: What famous home from a movie would you like to live in?

 

[Cormac135]

Re: What famous home from a movie would you like to live in?

Speaking of John Boy....Richard Thomas had a lead role in a rather b-rate movie called "You'll Like My Mother". It also starred Patty Duke. It was filmed at the infamous Congdon Mansion on Lake Superior in Duluth, Mn. Years earlier, Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse were murdered in the home by the Congdon's daughter. John boy played a murderer in the movie. The house was bequeathed to the University of Mn. at Duluth that now runs it as a tourist attraction. The mansion is called Glensheen. They now allow you to tour the death bedroom and not just the rest of the house, as when originally opened to the public.

Cormac, sounds like your kind of place.

Indeed, gives a whole new slant to the end of every episode of The Waltons.

Night Mom.

 

[MTLDude]

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A retro futuristic house of James Bond Villain...

 

[luckynumbah7]

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Bates Motel - No no, hear me out! Medium sized house with plenty of room, seems to have a sound structure and would look good revamped in one of many possible styles, plenty of grass and trees, - slightly- out of the way, and there's a motel off to the side for revenue. I believe it also has it's own well - and of course, there's a lake floating around in there somewhere. Perfect.

 

[TickTockMan]

^Nice.


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[FPNY]

I like the flat from the Jetsons. I can fold my car up and bring it with me, Rosie and Elroy. It will be a gas....

 

[cityboy-stl]

Notice the cee-ment pond in the back yard.

 

[JPGhost]

Charmed home

 

[ronboy]

I want land around me. I am partial to Southfork Ranch, just outside of Dallas, Texas USA!

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

Maybe I'm weird, but I would definitely choose the Addams family mansion or the Munsters' home.

 

[rocabar]

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)


Not too big, yet not too small. . . I'd love to live here!

In 1948 Kellogg's produced a set of 7 cardboard houses. They were called the 'Kellogg’s Modern Home Kits' and were available through mail order on boxes of Kellogg's 'All-Bran' cereal. This is my 'Blandings Dream House' based on the movie “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Melvyn Douglas.

At 35 cents, the Blandings Dream House was the most expensive in the set and measures 10 1/2" (26.7cm) L x 5 7/8" (14.9cm) W x 5 1/2" (14cm) H.

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

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It not a house, but the Overlook Hotel from The Shining.

 

[eastofeden]

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Easy one...28 Barbary Lane....Anna Madrigal's complex in Tales of the City.....

 

[mydrew1]

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Orthanc Tower.

 

[ManLicker]

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The bad guys' house in North By Northwest. Mid-century with a killer view.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I guess I may be ready for mobility.

How about Jeannie's home in I Dream of Jeannie?

It was minimalist, comfortable, suitable for entertaining, and the appointments were certainly gay enough.

 

[Vannie]

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the house from Home Alone. which is also the same house that was in Planes Trains & Automobiles.

Its a great colognial brick home.I never realized how large it was.It sold in 2012 for
$1.585 million.(chump change)And they are calling it a Georgian style home.

Before and after renovations(very nice)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-biz-home-alone-house-may5-photogallery.html

 

[NotHardUp1]

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Its a great colonial brick home. I never realized how large it was.It sold in 2012 for
$1.585 million.(chump change)And they are calling it a Georgian style home.

That is probably accurate, although Georgian Revival might be more accurate. By definition, a Georgian home is a subset of the Colonial group of styles, even if the example in discussion was built substantially later. From the Wiki description:

The style of Georgian buildings is very variable, but marked by a taste for symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture. Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically rather restrained, and sometimes almost completely absent on the exterior. The period brought the vocabulary of classical architecture to smaller and more modest buildings than had been the case before, replacing English vernacular architecture (or becoming the new vernacular style) for almost all new middle-class homes and public buildings by the end of the period.

 

[Vannie]

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That is probably accurate, although Georgian Revival might be more accurate. By definition, a Georgian home is a subset of the Colonial group of styles, even if the example in discussion was built substantially later. From the Wiki description:

Quote Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically rather restrained, and sometimes almost completely absent on the exterior.

Thats probably what I like most about it^ Simple portico entryway.I wanna buy it

 

[NotHardUp1]

I love the look of Georgian, and I grew up in a clapboard colonial Cape Cod, but being a Southerner in my soul, I have a very hard time liking a home without generous porch, and the portico is just too nominal for me.

That said, if you gave me a rowhouse in Georgetown, I'd piss myself in excitement and move in ASAP. LOL