The Jones house was the residence of the Jones family, located in the city of Princeton, New Jersey.
History[]
Henry Walton Jones, Senior and his wife Anna, had taken residence in Princeton, New Jersey[1] having moved from New Haven, Connecticut,[2] where Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Junior was born in 1899. When Henry Jr. had first learned to walk, he demonstrated the ability by somehow finding his way up onto the roof of the family house, which forced his father to climb up after him.[3]
The Jones house, ca 1900.
One night around May 1908, Henry and Anna informed their son that they were to embark on a world lecture tour.[3] Junior had to leave his home and his dog Indiana in the care of others.[1] In August 1910 the Jones family returned home.[4]
After Anna's death in 1912,[4] Henry and Indy moved to a residence[5] in Moab, Utah.[4] Two years later, when Indy was fifteen years old, the Joneses moved back to Princeton[4] where Indy lived with his father[6] until the spring of 1916, when he got involved in the Mexican Revolution, and later on in the First World War.[1] Returning from Europe in 1919, Indiana briefly stayed at his childhood home but, following a fallout with his father, he moved to Chicago to attend university.[7]
Jones Sr. himself had moved out of the home by 1927 and was living in New York.[8]
Behind the scenes[]
The Jones family house used from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles was filmed at 117 South 4th Street, Wilmington, NC.
The Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novelization states[9] that Henry's house seen in the film[5] is where Indy and his father moved when they left Utah[9] which would make it a building in Princeton. However, the film itself shows the address on the letter to be in Ferndale, New York.[5]
In Stephanie Calmenson's novelization of "Princeton, February 1916", the horse used to tow the Bugatti to the garage is implied to belonging to the Joneses and the house's old carriage house is used as the garage and stable.[10] In the televised episode, the horse seems to belong to Nancy and the Jones house does not appear to be in a neighborhood that would be zoned for horse keeping.[6]
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" (First appearance) → My First Adventure
- Egypt, May 1908 comic
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Princeton, February 1916" → Spring Break Adventure
- Race to Danger
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father" → Winds of Change
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" → My First Adventure
- ↑ Grail Diary
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – My First Adventure
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Princeton, February 1916" → Spring Break Adventure
- ↑ The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father" → Winds of Change
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novel
- ↑ Race to Danger