The Greens' House, full address 5307 West Elkins Street, is an eponymous main location in the Disney Channel animated comedy TV show Big City Greens. It is pinned between Big Coffee Building and Elkins Apartment. Considered to be the original Greens' house, it belongs to Alice Green and her ancestors. It is where the Green family currently resides following the loss of their country home and also the home of Gloria Sato after she lost her apartment.
The house is known every generation it suffers a superstition where it's threatened to be sold for a cause, and the kids have to convince the adults not to back down. In its most recent generation, it is threatened repeatedly by a major supermarket and its power-hungry CEO, Chip Whistler.
Appearance[]
It's a rustic, weather-beaten farmhouse with a corrugated metal roof. The walls are made of mostly red wood, with two windows at the front.
The lot of the house contains a small garage, a windmill, a chicken coop, a tree, and a small garden. To its left is the building that contained Big Coffee prior to its closure by Chip Whistler, before being replaced with Burger Clown, and then the Gloria + Green Cafe. The Elkins Apartment is to its right.
The house currently holds three bedrooms, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a basement, and an attic.
History[]
The Green's house was built circa. 1850. The land was founded by Jerome and his son, Bixby, which contains a barn built near aside the house. Years later, the barn was in a state of despair, razed, and replaced by a coffee shop.
The land was passed down from Green family generation to generation, each generation facing a threat to the land and the family farm, ranging from rail companies to aphids to a drought, which each of the generation's kids would manage to overcome, with the only exception being Alice's case where she sold the land to a man named Mr. Quisling; said land is now today's Big City.
In front of the house, during Jerome and Bixby's time, was a railway that once existed but was later decommissioned and replaced by a dirt road before becoming like a regular tarmac pavement street, the crop on the right has been replaced by an apartment building sometime in the 1950s.
In the current generation, the house stands between the former Big Coffee building and the Elkins Apartment.
The house was almost demolished and replaced by a parking lot as part of Chip Whistler's Wholesome Foods expansion plan, thanks to the new Wholesome a foods Mega-Store being built over the house and resulting in troubled production. Thanks to Cricket and Tilly not backing down, the demolition was cancelled, protecting the house's legacy once more, Chip is permanently banned from Big City, and Elkins Street returns to normal. Gloria also moves in with the family when she can no longer afford to live in her apartment.
Trivia[]
- The house being located in the city (as well as the Green family in general) is similar to the Hey Arnold! character Stinky Peterson, whose family moved to the city from their old countryside (much like the show's premise) and lives in a weathered-down shack that is placed in the city. However, the Petersons' shack was built when the city was just all but a farmland with a few buildings located far from the area, while the Greens' house was built when Big City was all but a patch of farmland.
- According to Chris and Shane, the shed, located at the back of the house, was modeled after the ones they remember from childhood.
- At a point of the age of the house, it has been renovated almost all the time prior to its current iteration, and it wasn't renovated ever since.
- In question, since the house was built circa. the 1850's, it may be considered as the oldest surviving building in the city, although there are a quite a few (if there's any) buildings that might par up to the same age as the house.