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The Munster House - Spooky home seen on the
horror comedy THE MUNSTERS/CBS/1964-66.
The Munster Family in front of their
eerie home
The Munster home is located at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Heights,
USA. Its inhabitants are Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne); Lily
Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo), his vampire wife;
their "wolfboy," Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick); Lily's father, Grandpa Vladimir Dracula (Al Lewis); and Marilyn (Beverly Owen/Pat Priest),
the "black sheep of the family" because she was blonde, beautiful and completely
normal.
The exterior of the Munster home has a stylized iron entry gate, stone walls
adorned with gargoyles, a half-cocked vampire bat weathervane; knarled trees, and a yard littered
with dead leaves.
Interior amenities include a telephone located in a casket
standing upright in the hallway (concealed until the pull-cord is yanked); a pet
dragon that lives under the staircase; a dungeon laboratory; and a Coo-Coo clock
with a raven that pops out and says "Nevermore."
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The Munster House |
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The Kitchen |
The Parlor |
Electric Chair |
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Family Organ |
Visitor in Parlor |
Staircase |
On episode No. 26 "Far Out Munsters," the Munster rent out their home for a
weekend to a rock group (The Standells) seeking refuge from their fans
TRIVIA NOTE:
The Munster home was built in the mid 1940s for motion pictures settings.
Constructed like a shell; it has a front and back but no interior. It appeared
in such movies as So Goes My Love (1946); All I Desire (1953); The Brass Bottle
(1964); The Ballad of Josie (1967); Coogan's Bluff (1968); Dragnet (1987); and
The Burbs (1989). It was also seen in the Alfred Hitchcock television series on
an episode titled "Bang, You're Dead," and as the Lake Tahoe residence on the
sitcom SHIRLEY/NBC/1979-80.
The Munster home was originally located on Colonial Street on the back lot of
Universal Studios just four door down the street of the Mayfield, USA home of
June and Ward Cleaver from the sitcom LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. Since the sixties, the
house has been uprooted and moved to another section of the back lot. Given a
new coat of paint and weeded of its original landscaping, stone wall, the house
is now
nearly unrecognizable to tourists in search of the original series home.
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The original Munster house as
seen on a Universal Studios tour from the 1960s |
The house is relocated and repainted.
Note: the triangular design over the center window is missing. |
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