Monsanto House of the Future, Experimental attraction in Tomorrowland, Disneyland, Anaheim, United States
The Monsanto House of the Future was an experimental attraction in Disneyland, California, showing a cross-shaped building on pillars. Below the elevated structure lay a garden with a pond, while the rooms spread across four arms.
The attraction opened in 1957 and ran for ten years while twenty million guests walked through the rooms. It closed in 1967 when the vision of a plastic future in housing already seemed outdated.
The structure bore the name of its sponsor, a chemical company developing new plastics for everyday life at that time. Inside, visitors could see household devices considered revolutionary back then, such as microwaves and automatic cleaning systems.
The house stood at the entrance to Tomorrowland, near the castle, with a garden and pond beneath it. Nothing of the structure remains; its reinforced concrete foundation survives at Pixie Hollow, painted green and covered with camouflage netting, and serves as a planter behind the Pixie Hollow sign.
The reinforced concrete foundation was never removed; it remains at the original site, now Pixie Hollow, painted green and used as a planter behind the Pixie Hollow sign. Half-inch steel bolts anchoring the house broke before the plastic structure did.
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