The Parrish House.


The Parrish House in Jumanji (1995) was quite a nice looking mansion. Considering how badly the interiors wee wrecked, we many hope they were movie studio sets.

But what about the exterior of the Parrish House? Was it an exterior set built for the film, or was it a real house somewhere?

According to IMDB:

The outside of the Parrish home is the same as the haunted mansion in The Changeling (1980)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/locations?ref_=ttrel_sa_4

The IMB section on The Changling (1980) says:

The house seen in the movie in real life doesn't and never actually did exist. The film-makers could not find a suitable mansion to use for the film so at a cost of around $200,000, the production had a Victorian gothic mansion facade attached to the front of a much more modern dwelling in a Vancouver street. This construction was used for the filming of all the exteriors of the movie's Carmichael Mansion. The interiors of the haunted house were an elaborate group of interconnecting sets built inside a film studio in Vancouver.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

So that appears to be a dead end.

This site says:

The street address in the film is 1356 Jefferson Street, but the exterior of the Parrish Mansion was really just an empty, temporary façade they built on a vacant lot in Vancouver.

The empty lot was at 1438 Balfour Avenue in British Columbia, to be exact. A real house has since been built on the site.


https://hookedonhouses.net/2020/05/11/jumanji-house-1995-parrish-mansion/#:~:text=The%20street%20address,on%20the%20site.

So there is no real House used as the Parrish House. I suspect that the movie probablely saved money building the exterior set by making it too small to actually have included in the interiors sets, a common practice in film and television.

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