The Witch's House in Beverly Hills


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This witch's house looks straight out of the Wizard of Oz, but it's actually located in Beverly Hills, California. Yes, that Beverly Hills.

Known formally as “The Spadena House,” but better known simply as “The Witch’s House,” this bizarre, whimsical creation was built in 1921 for a movie studio in Culver City. It was used in several silent films, and then moved to this pleasant residential neighborhood in Beverly Hills in 1926, where it is now a private home.

But the small house might as well have been created by the Brothers Grimm.

It looks for all the world like some haunted fairy tale cottage; you half expect Hansel & Gretel to walk out the front door. The yellow walls of the house slope precariously, giving the impression of imminent collapse. Its dilapidated, pitched roof (covered with odd-shaped brown shingles) is pointed like a witch’s hat. The saggy, wooden window shutters are hung at odd angles. An eccentric picket fence surrounds the property, made of wavy, warped wooden pickets.

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wow! never thought i'd see another witch's house- the one in laguna beach is pretty neato too! (photo in link) http://books.google.com/books?id=q_0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=witch+house+laguna+beach&source=bl&ots=mLd6BBvC9y&sig=qxi8OnKdZClF_HI1ErAxMQ83aP0&hl=en&ei=RDshTrbTHtO20AGmypHDAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=witch%20house%20laguna%20beach&f=false
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