The Disney Blog is reporting that the house in which Walt Disney himself was born, located in Chicago, is on the market. The two-story house on Tripp Avenue was built by his father Elias in 1892, and Walt was born in an upstairs bedroom in 1901. Today, the house has been divided up into a two-story rental.
In 2006, the house was up for sale on eBay, but apparently that deal fell through. Today, the asking price is less than $200,000.
I'm not sure which is sadder about this little piece of information ... that Walt Disney's birthplace has been chopped up into a rental unit, or that the economy is so bad no one is springing to buy it.
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