Walt Disney Birthplace Offering Self-Guided Virtual Tours
The birthplace of Walt Disney is offering self-guided virtual tours! Anyone from anywhere in the world can step inside and explore Walt’s childhood home.
Anyone interested in Disney history will want to head to waltdisneybirthplace.org and take a virtual look around Walt’s childhood home.
From the website there are several ways to move through the home. You can click on each photo individually or click on the orange icons to move to a different room. You can also click and drag each photo to look around the room.
The house is a small, pale yellow, two-story building with a green front door and green trim. The bottom floor features an entry, parlor, dining room, and kitchen. Upstairs houses the master bedroom, a tiny nursery, the room Walt shared with his brother Roy, and a room his other brothers (Herbert & Raymond) shared.
Walt’s father Elias built the home in the 1890’s in Chicago. Walt was born on the second floor of the home on December 5, 1901. He was the fourth of four boys. His sister Ruth was born in 1903. In Early 1906 the family moved to Marceline, Missouri, and the Chicago home was sold. In 1991 Chicago attempted to designate the property as a historical landmark but the owner at the time fought the designation and won. After years of neglect, however, the home has been purchased and the new owners are working to restore it to its 1901 state.
If you’d like to take a tour of the home, you can do so here.
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