Awhile back, I wrote a post about the time Imagineers tarted up Cinderella's Castle to look like a birthday cake for the park's 25th anniversary, and how every Disnerd keeps at least a mental list (mine may be a hard copy!) of extinct events and attractions that they are super bummed to not have been around for. The Monsanto House of the future is next on my list.
Developed as a collaboration between Walt Disney, Monsanto, and MIT Scientists, the house existed as a walk-through attraction in Disneyland's Tomorrowland between 1957 and 1967. With all its components made of the brand-spanking new consumer product, plastic! (HA!), the house was set up to show visitors what domestic life in (the then far-off year) 1986 would look like.
One thing I can say is that between Space Mountain, Spaceship Earth, the Contemporary, and this, Disney sure has a way with white, 'futuristic' buildings. That sounds like a post in and of itself. Enjoy these images from a 1954 issue of Life Magazine:
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