After a slight "roughing up" with new darker paint, the house and its grounds were used for all the exterior shots on the series, with interiors filmed on separate soundstages.

Within the fiction of The Munsters series, the mansion was built on the remains of an old fort, with Grandpa providing the down payment when Herman and Lily bought the home.

Universal replaced its entire front lot, and the Munster house, among other sets, were relocated to the backlot on "Colonial Street".

The most notable changes were the removal of the architectural details added for The Munsters, including the gingerbread gable over the second-story center window and the replacement of the columns and railings of the widow's walk tower.

The gateposts are also dramatically smaller and less bulky than in the original; and around the perimeter, instead of a wall, are yet more posts with spiked fencing in-between for several intervals, somewhat similar to what is seen in the 1964 color pilot.

The house has been a center of bad news on Wisteria Lane, with a total of four families having established a residence in the home: Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Mullins; Betty Applewhite and her children; Alma Hodge; and partners Bob Hunter and Lee McDermott.

In the spring of 2001, Sandra and Charles McKee of Waxahachie, Texas, began construction of a fully livable "re-creation" of the Munster home,[3] inside and out.

With initial construction completed in 2002, cast alumni Al Lewis and Butch Patrick appeared at the public grand opening.

"[4] The house comes equipped with a grand staircase (which opens up to reveal Spot), a rotating suit of armor, trap doors, secret passages, Grandpa's electric chair, a pipe organ, the raven cuckoo clock, a crooked bat weather vane on the roof and even a dungeon complete with trap door.