Real Mr Blandings Houses Were Built Across the US
As a publicity gimmick a number of houses (73) were built using the design & plans from the movie, although designs varied greatly. Details about some problems with building the houses here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071025070416/http://www.borkowski.co.uk/archives/liquidsoap/2006_07.html
The real Blandings house is located at 240 Indian Trail Road in New Milford, Connecticut. The one built for the movie is at 3800 Solstice Canyon Rd in Malibu Creek State Park.
List of houses built
Alabama
Birmingham (?-Jackson Securities & Investment Co.-furnished by Pizitz)
Arizona
Phoenix (4322 N 16th Av)
Arkansas
Camden (Clifton Heights), Little Rock (?-built by Little Rock Builders-furnished by Gus Blass)
California
Bakersfield (2500 Beech St), Bel Air (913 Chantilly Road) Cary Grant & Myrna Loy made an appearance at the opening of the Bel Air house, Fresno (244 E Terrace Av), Oakland (11000 Cameron Av) a teardown, Sacramento (2167 Irvin Way), San Diego, San Mateo/San Francisco area (3426 Alameda de las Pulgas "a green and white California version of a Cape Cod cottage," and "is built for 'indoor-outdoor' living")
Colorado
Bow Mar/Denver area (5200 Lakeshore Dr)
Connecticut
Trumbull (30 Windy Ridge), Hartford (?-built by Joseph A. DePaolo-furnished by Brown Thomson & Co.)
Florida
Jacksonville (?-built by Stockton, Whatley & Davin-furnished by Cunningham Furniture)
Georgia
Atlanta (?-built by B.A, Martin-furnished by Davison-Paxton Co.)
Illinois
Skokie/Evanston-Chicago area (7 Williamsburg Rd) Evanston zip code & schools but Skokie police and street plowing - locals call it Skevanston
Indiana
Indianapolis (6416 Dean Rd), Terre Haute (2400 Ohio Blvd) and South Bend (522 N Greenlawn Av)
Iowa
Des Monies (4921 Woodland Av)
Kentucky
Louisville
Maryland
Baltimore (7111 Bellona Av)
Massachusetts
Worcester (495 Chandler St), Natick/Boston area (4? MacArthur Rd) Myrna Loy attended the opening of the Natick house, Springfield
Michigan
Detroit (20000 Whitcomb St), Grand Rapids (1401 Breton Rd SE)
Minnesota
Minneapolis (?-built by L.Z. Carlson Home Building Corp.), St. Paul (2303 Burma Ln)
Missouri
Chillicothe (1706 Jennings Pl), Joplin (2921 E 14th St), Kansas City (1035 W 65th St), Clayton/St. Louis area (337 N Forsyth)
Nebraska
Omaha (502 N 72nd Av)
New Jersey
Tenafly
New Mexico
Albuquerque (4001 Mesa Verde Av)
New York
Albany (338 S Manning Blvd), Buffalo, Rochester (41 Orchard Park Blvd), Manhattan (5th Av & 48th St) a prefab house that was raffled off and moved, Syracuse, Tarrytown (142 Altamont Av), Utica
North Carolina
Greensboro (3924 Starmount Dr), Rocky Mount (1515 Lafayette Av)
Ohio
Cleveland, Columbus, Ottawa Hills/Toldeo area (3766 Edgeville Rd)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City (2723 NW 32nd St) Melvyn Douglas visited the Oklahoma City house, Tulsa (2230 E 31st St)
Oregon
Beaverton/Portland area (2715 SW Mayfield Av - NW corner of S.W. Walker Rd and Mayfield Av)
Pennsylvania
Huntingdon Valley/Philadelphia area (Huntingdon Pike & Dale Rd), Philadelphia (This house may have been built in John Wanamaker's Store. Newspaper ads include "Mr. Blanding's Dream House is on the 7th Floor, Central" and "10 room settings"), Mt. Lebanon/Pittsburgh area (410 Salem Dr)
Rhode Island
Providence
Tennessee
Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville (4435 E Brookfield Dr)
Texas
Amarillo (2813 Parker St), Austin (?), Corpus Christi (?-built by Jack Grant), Dallas (5423 Walnut Hill Lane) Melvyn Douglas made an appearance at the Dallas house - an empty lot in 2015, Fort Worth (3801 Arundel Av), Harlingen (905 E Pierce Av), Houston (3702 Glen Haven Blvd), San Antonio (2505 W Gramercy Pl)
Utah
Salt Lake City (2260 E Country Club Dr)
Virginia
Richmond (built by Alfred L. Blake & Sons-furnished by Miller & Rhodes)
Washington
Seattle (? -built by First Mortgage Co.-furnished by Bon Marché), Spokane (15 E High Dr)
Washington, D.C.
(?-built by W.C. & A.N. Miller Development Corp.-furnished by P.J. Nee)
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
CANADA
Québec
Montréal (515 Kenaston Av)
Other links of interest-
http://archive.org/stream/showmenstraderev48lewi_0#page/n23/mode/2up
http://grpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16055coll8/searchterm/dream%20house/order/nosort
http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2010/02/model-homes-and-dream-house-on-fifth.html
https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/nation-building/
http://toyconnect.blogspot.com/2014/01/1948-kelloggs-blandings-dream-house.html
http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=201701201141491490&p_centre=06M&p_classe=P&p_fonds=48&p_numunide=826799 Click on box [Voir les image(s):1] to see people lining up to tour the Montréal house.