The Addams Family House Is For Sale For the First Time in Almost A Century

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• Film series and The New Addams Family (1991–
• Queens bar named as oldest tavern wins impact award
• Cast
• You Can Spend the Night in a Real-life Version of 'The Addams Family' Mansion This Halloween
• The Addams Impact on Westfield
• Wednesday Cast: Meet the Actors from the Addams Family Netflix Series
• The Addams Family and Their Spooky New Jersey Origins

The crooks employ a fake Gomez and Morticia to help them carry out their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home to celebrate the Halloween party and trim the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the party. He has his men tie up Gomez and Morticia, and his doubles take their places, confusing Pancho, who is still in love with Morticia, and Ophelia, who is still in love with Gomez.

Film series and The New Addams Family (1991–

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Gomez and Morticia escape (thanks to the "Old Piccolo Game"), and rejoin the party, only to have Lafferty use various methods to try to get rid of them. Lafferty tries to escape through the secret passage and steps on Kitty Kat's tail. The Addamses are then free to celebrate Halloween happily, ending the night by singing together in welcome for Cousin Shy. The Addams Family's first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (a.k.a. "Wednesday is Missing"), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning, on September 23, 1972. Four members of the original cast (John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy) returned for the special, which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang.

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You see, our favorite spooky mansion was based on a very real Victorian home that was located in, funnily enough, Los Angeles West Adams District. Except, this house only had two stories and was missing the iconic Gothic tower. The town has leaned into the history, with an annual event paying tribute to the late cartoonist. Charles Addams was born and raised in Westfield, passing the house daily on the way to school.

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According to the television series, the residence is a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp located in an unspecified American town. In the musical (first shown in Chicago in 2009), the house is located in Central Park.[6] In the 2019 film, the Addamses live in an abandoned asylum located in the outskirts of the state of New Jersey which is haunted by a disembodied resident who demands the property to remain undisturbed. In 1991, the house on Elm Street where Addams lived for 27 years (and surely had plenty a nightmare) was declared a town historic landmark. The home was built in 1907, and was where Addams lived with his wife while writing the famous cartoon, which first appeared in The New Yorker in 1938 and continued to make serial appearances until his death in 1988. The sinister-looking family became a pop culture phenomenon, spawning two live-action TV shows, two animated TV shows, three movies, and a Broadway musical.

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Sure enough in March 1981, the Los Angeles Times announced that a $5.9 million dollar contract to construct a new facility had been awarded and would be completed at that location in just 18 months (with most of the new construction financed from a state-earthquake safety bond issue). Now where the house once stood is a Track and Field, for the Frank D. Lanterman High School. The article states that “Morgan Adams, 21 Chester Place, has established a new record for a sailing trip down the coast”, when making the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles harbor, on a sailing yacht in just forty-nine hours (with the company of four friends no less).

“Careful not to get too spooked if Thing appears while exploring the home! Gather around the fire in the living room, which is decorated with a bear-shaped rug, dripping candles and one of Morticia’s carnivorous plants. Located in a 19th century townhouse in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, the 3,700-square-foot townhouse is dark, dreary and just the right amount of frightening for fans of the show. An image of the Addams family mansion in a scene from Wednesday is Missing or Scooby-doo Meets the Addams Family (1972) also shows what seems to be snow on the ground. And I think that there may be more clues to the locations of various incarnations of the Addams family.

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Henry, being the eldest, was made president of the company and during a directors vote to divide up the ranch properties that the family owned, was assigned active supervision of the land that was once known as Rancho San Francisco (located within Los Angeles county). In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family drawings by Charles Addams was being developed for the Broadway stage. Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable theatre founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo.[55] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August 4–8, 2008.

Obviously no one stepped up and tried to save this famous and historic house (although I speculate it wasn’t even put up ‘For Sale-to be moved’), so therefore it was shockingly demolished in 1967. They took a photograph of 21 Chester Place with some studio props added to make the house look a little dilapidated, and blew up the picture to a 30×40 inch black and white portrait. An artist named Louis McManus, brushed color oil paint over the photograph to add details and style to the house to make it exactly what they wanted. Using a technique with the matte painting placed over in-motion stock footage of the Newhall house, also gave them the ability to create an illusion of activity in front of “The Addams Family” home. However, the top portion of the house was not quite the look that they had imagined.

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By 1910, he was living in California where he had amassed a small group of followers that were listed as “missionaries” (most of them were women). The Doheny’s, Oil tycoon Edward & Estelle Doheny, purchased 8 Chester Place in 1901, and subsequently started buying up the remaining lots in Chester Place to control and ensure their privacy (eventually acquiring all of Chester Place from Charles Silent). Whether the house was a wedding gift for his brother and his new sister-in-law, or if Henry actually sold the property to Walter because he needed the money, is truly only speculation (truth is we will probably never know for certain).

Rumor has it that the studio was hesitant to allocate funds for a trio of singers, so Mizzy employed multi-tracking to perform all three vocal parts heard in the opening credits. Let's delve into the classic series and discover ten intriguing and eerie facts you may not have been aware of about The Addams Family television show. During World War I, after four years in the Naval Militia, Lieutenant Morgan Adams entered the service of the United States Government on April 6, 1917, as Commanding Officer of the Torpedo Boat FARRAGUT. In doing so, he became the first officer of the Naval Militia to be placed in command of a U.S. In 1918, he advanced to the rank of lieutenant commander and was later placed in command of the Pacific terminal of the Panama Canal. Mr. Tufts considered himself a traveling evangelist who had traveled far and wide, from city to city, giving discourses on religion at church meetings or conventions, and sharing his experiences as a missionary in India.

I think it is safe to say as well that the Newhall’s were also very well known among the city’s most social elite (with Walter serving as president of The California Club), and the house did seem to be loved and cherished in its heyday by Mr. and Mrs. Newhall. A good reflection of this is seen throughout the years in many Los Angeles Herald announcements, that the Newhall’s proudly used their house as a social stomping ground for luncheons and dinner parties; usually at Mrs. Newhall’s request. When the gated community Chester Place, that runs north to south between West 23rd Street and West Adams Street (with gateways at both entrances), was created and subdivided on Charles Silent’s land in 1899, another street was made to connect Chester Place to St. James Park. Since that land where the new connecting street would be placed belonged to the Newhall’s, I speculate that this is when Charles Silent purchased the land from Walter that stretched from Walter’s house to Adams Street.

The old theme song says “their house is a museum/where people come to see ’em,” and now you can see every single room in amazing detail. Every room you’d want is on display here; from Pugsley and Wednesday’s bedrooms, to Morticia’s beloved arboretum where she snips the roses off their thorny stems. This amazing recreation even has the mansion’s basement, which has just as many rooms as the ground levels. After all, we know that’s where Gomez and Uncle Fester keep their most favorite toys, like Gomez’s model train set.

More recently this beloved franchise has experienced an exciting revival with 2019s computer-animated The Addams Family, and the upcoming sequel. For this run of the family, the home was constructed as a mental asylum before they moved in. However, much of the innate architectural design elements remain the same.

To sum up The Addams Family in a snap, or two, they are creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, altogether ooky – and from New Jersey. In the new animated film, Morticia and Gomez Addams relocate their quirky clan to the Garden State where hijinks ensue. On June 9, 1967, the Department of Building and Safety issued a demolition permit for the house; notifying the Grafe’s to vacate within a certain time frame (usually thirty days from the notification date; sometimes more), and just eleven days later the permit to build a parking lot was filed. On October 16, 1967, just four months later, the ‘certificate of occupancy’ for the use of the new parking lot was issued (signifying that it was ready and could be used), so the house was demolished sometime between June 9th and October 16, 1967. It was the only house on that side of the street that is now called St. James Park W, and the college wasn’t using the house (although it was still being occupied), so I guess they thought it was expendable.

When the newly reconciled Tufts sold 21 Chester Place in 1914 (shortly after the Chicago Examiner article in April), they sold the house and land to none other than Estelle Doheny herself. It then became a rental, as Estelle had done with the other houses that she had acquired in the surrounding area. She obviously did not waste much time because by 1915, the house did have its first rental occupants. In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (released on November 22, 1991).

Let’s fire up the Packard V-12 hearse and take a spin down Memory (0001 Cemetery) Lane... Not a mecca of macabre, nor a town of Assimilation (as in the latest movie), Westfield is a welcoming ‘burb with a thriving art scene, and active downtown about an hour’s drive outside New York City. And it is also host to AddamsFest, the October celebration of its famous family, which will feature a masquerade ball, beer garden, pumpkin carvings, costume contests, lecture series, and even a paranormal investigation. Although for whatever reason they did not break ground to build the school until a decade later (possibly due to finances). The television series was often re-run through television syndication for years afterward, particularly in Australia. The live-action television series premiered on ABC on Friday, September 18, 1964, and ran for two seasons.[2] It subsequently inspired a 1977 telefilm titled Halloween with the New Addams Family and cameos from the cast in other shows.