The Haunted Mansion: Real-life origins of the building design

[DisneyDaniel]

Every once in a while, one stumbles across a true, Disney geek-out find on the Internet, and here is one of them!

The writer of the "Disneyland Nomenclature" blog did some research and found photos and information about the real-life building design which inspired Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. The Shipley-Lydecker House, built by Charles Shipley in 1803, was located at 2550 McHenry St. in Baltimore, Maryland, and the owner was Phillip Leydecker.

Read the fascinating information at:
http://disneylandcompendium.blogspot.com/2008/03/shipley-lydecker-house.html

See a large version this photo HERE (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A4grLYnNdu4/R-GSP1OqQAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/q9E0jlZtr-U/s1600-h/IndexBaltimoreMansion.jpg)
http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/836672176_Y3CHh-M.jpg

[MouseWife]

This is a find! Cool.

[innerSpaceman]

Wow, I've long known the Baltimore house inspired the Mansion, but I don't recall seeing photos of the exterior that show how much of a Direct Copy the HM is. Interesting.

[Moonliner]

in Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore!!! That's like 40min from here!!!!

was

Damn. So much disappointment in just one little word.

[DisneyDaniel]

Moonliner: A true Disney geek would still go visit the area where it was located.

[Kevy Baby]

It looks like the location is just a dirt lot now (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2550+McHenry+St.+Baltimore,+Maryland&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=McHenry+St,+Baltimore,+Maryland&ll=39.284726,-76.631618&spn=0.00294,0.003932&t=h&z=18).

Although you could visit the B&O Railroad Museum (http://www.borail.org/) while you were there!


ETA: Scratch the dirt lot thing: the street view (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2550+McHenry+St.+Baltimore,+Maryland&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=McHenry+St,+Baltimore,+Maryland&t=h&ll=39.284726,-76.631618&spn=0.00294,0.003932&z=18&layer=c&cbll=39.284818,-76.63045&panoid=9qWlsTNsCUcAJREGmMXA3g&cbp=12,143.76,,0,9.42) shows more recent construction

[Moonliner]

Moonliner: A true Disney geek would still go visit the area where it was located.

Really?

So how many times have you been to Gelson's Markets?

[Moonliner]

Although you could visit the B&O Railroad Museum (http://www.borail.org/) while you were there!


Now that I've done many a time. It's a pretty cool place.

[Kevy Baby]

Now that I've done many a time. It's a pretty cool place.And all those times you went, you didn't know you were so close to a place in Disney lore.Now that I've done many a time. It's a pretty cool place.I was too embarrassed to admit that I was interested in seeing that :blush:

[Morrigoon]

Really?

So how many times have you been to Gelson's Markets?

Hmm... well I've been there 2 or 3 times. How many trips have you made to Kingswell Street?