The six-year delay owed heavily to Disney's involvement in the New York World's Fair in 1964–1965 and to an attraction redesign after Walt's death in 1966. The attraction was previewed in a 1965 episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, but the attraction itself did not open until 1969. Construction began a year later, and the exterior was completed in 1963. In 1961, handbills announcing a 1963 opening of the Haunted Mansion were given out at Disneyland's main entrance. Imagineers Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey recreated Ken Anderson's stories in a studio at WED Enterprises. Anderson envisioned stories for the mansion, including tales of a ghostly sea captain who killed his nosy bride and then hanged himself, a mansion home to an unfortunate family, and a ghostly wedding party with well-known Disney villains and spooks. He visited the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, and was captivated by the massive mansion with its stairs to nowhere, doors that opened to walls and holes, and elevators. ĭisney, however, rejected the idea of having a run-down building in his park.
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Anderson studied New Orleans and old plantations and came up with a drawing of an antebellum manor overgrown with weeds, dead trees, swarms of bats and boarded doors and windows topped by a screeching cat as a weather vane. Weeks later, New Orleans Square appeared on the souvenir map and promised a thieves market, a pirate wax museum, and a haunted house walk-through. Plans were made to build a New Orleans-themed land in the small transition area between Frontierland and Adventureland. ĭisney assigned Imagineer Ken Anderson to create a story using Goff's idea. Disney Legend Harper Goff developed a black-and-white sketch of a crooked street leading away from main street by a peaceful church and graveyard, with a run-down manor perched high on a hill that towered over main street. In 1951, the first known illustration of the park showed a main street setting, green fields, western village and a carnival. At the time, the park they were developing the attraction for was supposed to be located across from the studios. The idea for the Mansion precedes Disneyland and WED Enterprises, dating to when Walt Disney hired the first of his Imagineers. Ghost Host (Voiced by Paul Frees in California and Florida Teichiro Hori in Tokyo) " Grim Grinning Ghosts" composed by Buddy Baker For other uses, see Haunted Mansion (disambiguation).
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