Gingerbread House

Good enough to eat!

HEY LOOK ITS A BIG ICE CREAM CONE! WEEE!

I remember going to the Enchanted Forest when I was little...

The place was neat and fun when I was five. With these photos, now the place scares me! :-)

Good photography. I'm glad you were able to take the pictures. Thank you for sharing this.

I took my daughter to this fun place when she was five...it's sad to see it so defunct...but time moves on and the gentler time this play place represented is long gone.
BTW...that daughter is Tara who posted here 6/15/05.

And time is cruel and while it may make things get ugly and decay it also makes these places more beautiful than they once were.

looks like an entity in the window to the right.

I think I see what you are talkinga bout XJamieX and I think that is just a shadow.

Once again- what a great photo. You do excellent work.

I am surprised it lasted as long as it did, it is a stupid boring idea and to pay for it is an insult.nice try though.

I'd lik'ataka'lik!SLUUUUURP!YUUUUUUUUMMM!!!

The E.F. was my FAVORITE place to go when I was little! I am really enjoying this gallery. I had a birthday in the Gingerbread house when I was a little kid, and it's one of my best memories. Seeing the whole place crumble is depressing, but nothing lasts forever.

The "Happy Birthday" cake which was once in the Gingerbread house has been saved and has been relocated to Clark's Farm. Old photos were used as reference to bring this cake back to life, and once again it looks good enough to eat! : )

Thank you so much for taking these photos. I remember begging my parents every weekend to take me to EF. I stumbled across your site thanks to google. ^_^ Your photography brings back so many memories, and also the sadness I felt the day this park closed, and watched it turn to this.

what a wonderful place to get weird!

I still have a memento of this park from over 30 years ago. It is a little plate with a string hanger and it deplicts this house on it, I ALWAYS wanted to have my birthday party here! I love these photos and thank you for them, I now live in California and have sooo many wonderful memories of visits here!!!

sandi, do you remember the cement Birthday Cake the was inside this building?

Why do these places just sit around and "waste" away?

Because no one generally steps forward and shells out the incredible amount of money it would take to restore them. This place has been a notable exception, but check out the cost of restoration sometime and then see if your neighbors are willing to pay the taxes to renovate/restore. Few people are willing to maintain current buildings that are in use, much less the cost of maintaining/restoring old buildings.

As far as why they aren't torn down - in many cases someone hoped that the building(s) would be purchased some day, but by the time there was interest, the increased cost of restoration (and asbestos abatement for many older buildings) had become prohibitive.

I think this one is stale.

Looks like the house Hansel and Gretel went into!!

Uh... well that *was* the goal...

Im new to this site but i have looked through a few of your galleries and they are quite amazing i think you do great work and that house is not the kind of thing i would want to come upon in the woods lol

yum gimme gimme gimme or i cook u like the last photo!

Way cool - clubbed I'm geared!

this is the place. I mistook the hansel and gretal house for here. And my mother took me to the farm where they took lots of the stuff, on the 50th anniversary of EF and me, my mom, my cousin, and my aunt (great aunt actually) stood around the big cake and sang happy birthday. Not as fun as sliding down the shoe!

bardzo ciekawe, dzieki

This place seems to be holding up pretty well. It's so magical and mysterious, esp. this shot.... a house made with a giant ice cream cone, 'frosting' for mortar and a castle in the background? Very cool. I'd probably live there if I could. I think it would be fun to live in a 'gingerbread' house. Lord knows I have a sweet tooth. XD