The house on Fairfield Street, with the Geisel family sitting on the front lawn.
Two years after Ted was born, the growing Geisel family moved into a three story house in the Forest Park neighborhood of Springfield. Ted lived there, at 74 Fairfield Street, with his parents and older sister until he left Springfield to go to college. As a young boy, Ted played with toy soldiers on the front porch and his bulldog Rex in the yard. He loved to dress up in costumes that were kept in large wardrobe chests in the third floor walk-in attic. On the wall of his bedroom, young Ted drew a mural filled with his uniquely strange and humorous animals.