For sale: The house from 'A Christmas Story.'
The home in Cleveland made famous by a "FRAGILE" lamp and Ralphie's determination to get that one special present is on the market with no listed minimum price.Scott Shaw / The Plain Dealer via AP fileThe neighborhood's late-19th-century homes, skinny, tall and often in the Victorian style, fetch a median selling price of aboutThen there's 3159 W. 11th St.
Potential buyers will have to consider not only the home's value as a working Cleveland icon and exterior movie location that attracts visits estimated in the"I’m looking for the right buyer," owner Brian Jones, 47, told NBC affiliateIncluded in the 1.3-acre package: a museum, a gift shop, a rental property, a parking lot used for museum and gift shop employees and the neighboring home of Ralphie’s neighbors, the Bumpuses, whose rambunctious hound dogs wrecked a Christmas lunch.
Jones, who is from San Diego, lives in Florida and has obsessed over the film for the better part of a lifetime, bought the campus piecemeal, starting with the main"Christmas Story" property, built nearly 100 years before the movie's debut, in 2004. It all started after he discovered his eyesight would limit his ability to reach his goal of becoming a Navy pilot. Jones was feeling down, and his parents sent him a leg lamp modeled after the Old Man's shapely and cherished Major Award, a star of"A Christmas Story" in its own right, according to the home'sThe replica of a woman's leg covered by fishnet stockings and topped by a skirt of a lampshade brightened Jones' spirits, as it did the Old Man's in the movie.
He debuted the home as a tourist attraction in 2006 while adding property to the campus as it became available. He didn't shoot his eye out, to borrow a theme from"A Christmas Story," in which Ralphie's mission to get a BB gun would challenge him not to bite off more than he could chew.Monday's news comes just days before HBO was scheduled to air a new sequel, one of three produced since the 1983 original.
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