Count Olaf's House



Count Olaf's House, also called "Olaf's House", is a tall decrepit manor that is Count Olaf's personal residence and it first serves as the main setting for the first book "The Bad Beginning" of the A Series of Unfortunate Events book series by Lemony Snicket. It also have made it's appearance as a location in the 2004 black comedy movie adaption Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

It is the first house that the 3 Baudelaire siblings lived in after the fire at the Baudelaire mansion and where the children leave after it is revealed that the greedy Count Olaf is after their fortune.

Later, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire tell the Baudelaires they were kept here for a while after they were kidnapped. Years after the unfortunate events of the Baudelaries, Lemony Snicket states that access to Count Olaf's house is impossible, though the exact circumstance as to why is unknown.

It is unknown what became of the house after Count Olaf's unfortunate demise.

Description
The house is described as a dilapidated mess. The bricks are stained with soot and grime, the front door needs repainting (and contains a carving of an eye), and the entire building sags to one side. Rising above the house is a tall and dirty tower. In The Bad Beginning: Rare Edition, Lemony notes that his sister Kit has proposed that some of the eyes in Olaf's house contain secret peepholes, cameras, or microscopic lenses.