Where is leave it to beaver house

In the years since the original show aired, the house at Pine Street has become the one most identified with the show. Both Cleaver homes existed as interior sets built on a sound stage and exterior facade sets on a studio backlot street.

Today the former Cleaver house is either gone or altered so much as to be unrecognizable. The house and garage facades were constructed for the Humphrey Bogart movie Desperate Hours. This was actually a Paramount Pictures release, but it was not unusual for studios to rent each other's backlots to suit their production needs. A one storey bungalow-style house was moved to the end of the street to make room for the new facade. The house was referred to internally at Universal as the 'Paramount House'.

The house was changed little to get it ready for filming Beaver. A room extension on the garage side was removed as well as a few other small details. Unlike some, the house exterior was complete and detailed on all four sides to match the interior Cleaver house sets. This meant a greater range of places than a realistic outdoor scene could be done. For this reason, the house and street exteriors were used frequently during the 'Beaver' production.

In addition, most episodes featured part of the action taking place somewhere on the exterior of the house. This gave the show a much more 'movie-like' feel, unlike many sitcoms of the time where the entire show took place on just a few interior sets. After 'Beaver' wrapped in and throughout the s, the facade continued to play minor roles in countless movies and TV shows, usually as just another house in the background.

This time the front appearance of the house was radically altered to become the home office of the title character. In , Universal relocated Colonial Street and a few other set streets to the West end of the back lot.

The houses were reassembled in a different order on a new Colonial Street - one that had been re-designed to better accommodate the tour trams. During the move, the original Cleaver's garage ended up on Industrial Street - a row of smaller mostly 1-story houses.

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Mayfield, Ohio, is about 20 miles from Lake Erie but several hundreds of miles from the ocean. Madison, Wisconsin, is within driving distance of Lake Michigan, too. According to Me TV , the show never came out and mentioned what state the family lives in. That was likely by design. The ambiguous location helped ensure a larger audience could connect to the show. Leave It to Beaver was hardly unique in that respect. In the background is the west side of the "Dabney House" aka the "Southern Mansion" , which is featured in a capture farther down this page.

The "Mummy's Ghost" house is visible in the distance to the right. Circle Drive "Circle Drive" was a semi-circular drive with a small church and several other New England-themed facades at the eastern end of Colonial Street. This view is looking northwest.

Circle Drive Facades circa Another frequent filming location in Leave it to Beaver was this sidewalk along Circle Drive and the intersection with Industrial Street. The storefront facades as seen in this photo circa have been modified at some point following the production of the series. Circle Drive and Park circa This view looking east from the Circle Drive park matches that used in the series for a shot of Beaver and his classmates in front of "Grant Avenue Grammar School" see "More Views from Colonial Street and Beyond" at the end of this page.

Circle Drive Facades. Circle Drive Facades and Park Steps. Circle Drive Park circa Interestingly enough, the house to the left was formerly located on Colonial Street Dabney House and field as "Metzger Field" As surprising as this may be, the pavilion-like structure and large playing field seen here in the episode "Beaver's Team" was on the Universal City backlot, just east of Courthouse Square.

By , however, other sets had encroached into the field area. The Dabney House, from the film Tap Roots , was also referred to on the Univeral lot as the "Southern Mansion" not to be confused with the Colonial Mansion at the west end of Colonial Street , and was removed some time during the 's. The beach umbrella is strategically placed in this scene for purposes of hiding grass-roofed structures on the north end of Falls Lake, revealed in the next photograph.

Falls Lake circa Production Bungalows This scene from the episode "The Parking Attendants" was filmed on a street lined with production bungalows in the northwest corner "front lot" adjacent to Lankershim Blvd. This area has changed radically over the decades since Leave it to Beaver was filmed, and production offices and these buildings have been moved several times.

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