Collinwood Mansion - Collinwood was the eerie haunted mansion on the daytime occult serial DARK SHADOWS/ABC/1966-71. Located near the coast of Maine, its primary inhabitant was Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), a 200-year-old vampire.

The exterior shots of Collinwood were based on actual photos of the Lyndhurst Mansion, a forbidding, gothic structure located in Tarrytown, New York. Interior shots were photographed in a Manhattan studio. The mansion was also featured in the 1970 movie House of Dark Shadows.

Fans of Collinwood got to revisit the eerie estate on the revival series DARK SHADOWS/ABC/1991 when actor Ben Cross took over the role of the reluctant bloodsucker, Barnabas Collins. The show's new prime time budget enabled Dan Curtis, the original producer of the series to create a moodier, sexier and more violent show with elaborate sets and special effects.

Most of the new series was shot at Greystone Mansion, a 55-room home built in 1927-28 by oil baron Edward Doheny (now owned by the City of Beverly Hills) located at 905 Loma Vista Drive, north of Sunset Boulevard. You may have seen the home in the motion picture The Witches of Eastwick (1987); the TV miniseries WINDS OF WAR/ABC/1983 and WAR AND REMEMBRANCE/ABC/1988; and the TV program MURDER, SHE WROTE/CBS/1984-96.