Thousands of fans visit each year to explore the boyhood home of fictional Ralphie Parker - and of course, to see 'the major award' in the window!
. Across the street from the house is the site’s gift shop and museum, which houses many of the original props and costumes from the movie and other mementos.The exterior of the house has been renovated to look just as it did in the movie.
Because all the furniture and fixtures in the house are reproductions, nothing is off-limits to reasonable inspection and use by visitors, who can relax on the sofa, pose with the “major award” leg lamp in the front window, and even hide under the kitchen sink, just like Ralphie’s little brother Randy when he feared that his father might kill Ralphie.Enjoy the house during an overnight stay
Guests who stay the night also get the run of the house after the day’s tours end and so can recreate their own Christmas-morning scenarios any time of year. The museum also operates additional lodgings at “The Bumpus House” next door to A Christmas Story House. In the movie, that house is home to the rustic Bumpus family and the raucous and intrusive hound dogs that eat the Parker family’s Christmas turkey.