The Addams Family Houses
This is the house that was used in The Addams Family television series (1965), starring Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams and John Astin as Gomez Addams. |
This house was used in The Addams Family movies, which were made in 1991, 1993, and 1998. The cast in the 1998 movie was different than the one in the previous two movies. |
"Real" Addams Family House
This house is located in Rensselaer county in New York, and is referred to by the locals as "the Addams Family house" because of the resemblance. The house has 5 apartments, 5 bathrooms, 7 bedrooms, 5 front rooms, and various terraces, alcoves, and smaller rooms. The house is said to be haunted.
Castle Largo
Castle Largo is located in Connecticut. It's a miniature castle, with elements of Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire styles. It was constructed by three stages in 1880, and was designed by Joel T. Case.
Webster Wagner Home
125 Allen Place
The house at 125 Allen Place is located in Hartford, Connecticut. It was built in 1875, and it is a Gothic Revival style house.
Superintendent's House
This house is located in Hartford, Connecticut, and was built in 1875 for the superintendent of Cedar Hill Cemetery. This house is Gothic Revival style, and has a rare fulls second-story window with an elaborate hood.
Littlefield House
The Littlefield House is located in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas campus, and is one of the few gothic houses in the city. It was built in 1893 by George Littlefield, and it cost $50,000. This house has both Victorian and Gothic architectural elements.
Gothic Revival Houses
Hale House
The Hale House is located in northeast Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1885 at an original cost of less than $4,000. In 1970, the house was relocated to the Heritage Square Museum. It's described as the "most photographed house in the entire city" and the "most elaborately decorated."
157 Hotham Street
This house is located in East Melbourne, Australia. It was designed by John Reed, and built in 1860 by Robert Huckson.
Lake-Peterson House
The Lake-Peterson house is located in Rockford, Illinois, and is one of Illinois' best examples of Victorian Gothic style domestic architecture. Construction on the house began in 1873.
Romantic Gothic Revival
This house is located in Bath, England, and is a romantic adaptation of medieval architecture. However, it is not trying to replicate authentic Gothic styles.
Lyndhurst
The Lyndhurst house is located in Tarrytown, New York. The house was designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis.
Gothic Revival Farmhouse
The Gothic Revival ideas in this house are in the shape of the roof and the window moldings.
Carpenter Gothic
Some buildings added Gothic details to wooden cottages, such as scrolled ornaments and "gingerbread" trim. These cottages were referred to as "Carpenter Gothic." In the U.S., Gothic Revival styles were seen to be as most suitable in rural areas, but smaller and more ornate Gothic Revival homes were built in populated areas. Religious camps in Round Lake, New York and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts were in miniature village in Carpenter Gothic style. This house is located in Bath, Maine. |
A Carpenter Gothic cottage This house is located in Elsah, Illinois, and has a "paired gable." |