| "All the houses were elegant but old. Some looked like they had been there since before the United States was formed." |
| — Description of Mystic Lane[1] |
Description[]
| “ | It was a wide residential street with large homes on spacious lots. | ” |
Mystic Lane was a street located in the town of Willow Grove, Connecticut, America. It was the home of several people including Cornelia Grimm and the Sisters Grimm.
Known Houses[]
- 1723
- 1725
- 1727
- 1729: The home of the Sisters Grimm.
House 1729[]
Front Lawn[]
The house at number 1729 had a tall hedge around its yard, with a small gate. It was a two-story house with big windows and a wide front porch. It was painted yellow and the front yard was covered in ornaments, such as wind chimes, garden gnomes, etc. Bree felt very comfortable there.
Backyard[]
The yard behind the house "was just as decorated as the front lawn" and a large guesthouse occupied the back of the property.
Interior[]
Inside, the house had floral wallpaper with white trim, large vases of flowers placed on every surface, and many framed photographs in all kinds of frames. The pictures were of the women who have lived in the house over time. There was comfortable furniture, and the house was home to at least six cats.[2] The house used to belong to Cornelia's mother and her sisters.
The Guesthouse[]
The guesthouse was the Sisters Grimm's research center. It was in the back of the Mystic Lane property and might have been a barn before it was renovated. It was one large room with a high ceiling, a large steel table, a row of desks with computers, printers and radio scanners, and several file cabinets and other storage furniture. A giant map of the world took up one wall of the room, with hundreds of locations pinned with colorful tacks.[3] The Sisters had also drawn up a timeline and diagrams to predict portal openings between their world and the Land of Stories, and had stored several findings of magical activity like a mermaid skeleton and several fairy skeletons.[4]
History[]
Bree had developed a theory that she and Emmerich must have had magical blood and may have been descendants of Wilhelm Grimm. Bree had also found a stack of letters between her grandmother and a woman called Cornelia Grimm, apparently her grandmother's cousin, strengthened this suspicion. Bree went to find Cornelia. She found out her theory was correct, and she learned about the Sisters Grimm, a society of women who monitored the portals between their world and the Land of Stories.
They knew about the story of the Grande Armée, and Bree filled them in on the events that occurred in the Land of Stories when the Armée came out of the portal. In turn, they told her about the sisterhood and showed her the guesthouse. They discovered that a portal would open six months from then,[5] in New York City, and it would stay open much longer.
Behind the Scenes[]
- The number of the house, 1729 was (most likely) not randomly chosen: it happened to be the year in which the first English translation of Charles Perrault's fairy tales were published.[6]
References[]
- ↑ Beyond the Kingdoms, ch 27, p. 372
- ↑ Beyond the Kingdoms, ch 27, p 374
- ↑ Beyond the Kingdoms, ch 27, p 379
- ↑ Beyond the Kingdoms, ch 27, p 381
- ↑ "now" being the 4th book, six months can be assumed to be book 6.
- ↑ "Tales of Past Times by Mother Goose" - translated by Robert Samber in 1729. Source : http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/29/mother-gooses-french-birth-1697-and-british-afterlife-1729/