The REAL Haunted Mansion is up for Sale

The house is good.I like it

Hey, is it me or what? i thought i saw like a face in one of the pictures!! yup a face looking in the window hey its no joke!! check it out   on your own yull see i think is were is the living room!! SCARYYY!!=0

Here is a newer website link:

http://www.asapackermansion.com/tours.html

I really like it I love mansions so much I wish i can go and get in one for one day lol but anyways nice i like it

Me doing a bing search~ I come across this article. O-o wtf?! My family and I adore the Haunted Mansion.... and were searching for a house like it to buy. LOL... well, this was for sale in 2006. dratz~

Not like we could afford it anyways~

My fiancee and I just went to Jim Thorpe this past weekend and took a tour of the Asa Packer mansion that is next door, the Harry Packer Mansion was built by Asa for his son when he got married.  According to the tour Disney did model the Haunted Mansion after the Harry Packer Mansion, and the huge chandelere (sp?) that is in the Asa Packer Mansion was also copied by MGM and put in Gone With the Wind, both houses are beautiful and the Harry Packer Mansion is currently a B&B that hosts Murder Mystery weekends.  If you've never been and have the opportunity to visit Jim Thorpe it is definately worthwhile, such a beautiful place

Harry Packer is a fine house to be sure, but as far as Disney goes, it's a stretch for them to claim that it was much of an inspiration. Three of the four Disney Haunted Mansions are original designs (Tokyo Disneyland is a copy of the Magic Kingdom's haunted mansion in Florida), and none of them use the same architectural period at the Harry Packer home, must less mimic it stylistically.

Florida's Haunted Mansion (located in the park's Liberty Square section) is based on several Hudson River manor houses in upstate New York - in this, it's a composite design (John Hench, Designing Disney, 2003 and Jason Surrell, The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies are just a couple of references for this). Harry Packer can claim that the upper part of the tower on the southwestern end of the house is vaguely similar to the chimneys used on the Florida park's Haunted Mansion (on both the western and eastern ends of the mansion), but the rest of the house is completely different (in fact, the roofs of the Harry Packer house look more like the roofs of Main Street USA than the Haunted Mansions in any of Disney's parks).

Disneyland's (one word, not Disney Land) Haunted Mansion is located in New Orleans Square and is a composite of several plantation houses in Louisiana and South Carolina done in the Greek Revival style. It looks absolutely nothing like the Harry Packer house.

Disneyland Paris also has a Haunted Mansion (located in the park's Frontierland section), which was modeled (slightly more than loosely) on the house used in Psycho. That and Western US boarding houses done in a Western Victorian style.  

Feel free to Google Haunted Mansion for Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris. You'll find plenty of pictures to make some quick visual comparisons. It's good for marketing the home it seems, but I wouldn't buy it and make that claim only to have someone that's actually been to a Disney park visit and prove me entirely wrong.

I have to come stay here, my Great Grandmother was Ethel Packer, her grandfather Edward Packer was influential in teaching Asa Packer to be a Carpenter when he first moved to Pennsylvania from where the Packer pilgrims settled in Mystic Conn.  Unfortunately the fortune never made it down to my generation.  This will be quite a strange and fun time.