1428 Elm Street

1428 Elm Street, also known as the Elm Street house, is the fictional house in Springwood, Ohio at the centre of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, conceived by Wes Craven. In A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) it is owned by Marge Thompson, who lives there with her teenage daughter Nancy; the glove Freddy Krueger killed with was hidden in the boiler in its basement, and Nancy brings Freddy out of her dreams and into the house, where she lures him through a series of booby traps and sets him on fire.

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) the Walsh family moves in after the house has stood empty for about five years, and Freddy's spirit, lingering in the house, invades Jesse Walsh's dreams. In Dream Warriors Freddy adopts a dream version of the house, blending it with the old power plant where he worked; by The Dream Master the real house is an uninhabited, boarded-up ghost house, and Kristen Parker builds a model of it and keeps returning to it in her nightmares.

Freddy's Dead hints that Freddy and his family once lived there, and in Freddy vs. Jason (2003) it is occupied by Dr. Campbell and his daughter Lori, whose mother Freddy murdered in their bedroom. The house also appears in the climax of Wes Craven's New Nightmare, in the comics and novels, and as a Halloween Horror Nights attraction at Universal Orlando (2007 and 2015) and Universal Studios Hollywood (2008).