 The previous owners had reconfigured the house, installing modern windows and covering the original wood siding with blue vinyl.Watching the movie frame by frame, Jones drew detailed plans of the interiors, which had originally been filmed on a Toronto sound stage, and spent $240,000 to gut the structure, reconfigure it to a single-family dwelling, transform it into a near-replica of the movie set, and restore the exterior to its appearance in the film.Jones also purchased the house across the street from the Christmas Story House and converted it into A Christmas Story House Museum, which contains some of the props from the movie, including Randy's snow suit, the Higbee's window toys, the chalk board from Miss Shields classroom, an original Red Ryder bb-gun used in the filming and hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos.