A 1922 Clovis mansion that became a sanitarium and nursing home, later a nationally televised haunted attraction, before its 2014 demolition — famous for ghost lore, much of it invented for the show.
2604 Clovis Avenue (site now occupied by a Costco), Clovis, CA 93612
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
The mansion was demolished in 2014 and the site is now a Costco. There is nothing to visit; this entry is a historical and folklore record.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Commercial retail site; no historic structure remains
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No Photos
Est. 1922 · 1922 Andriotti mansion; later Hazelwood and Clovis Avenue Sanitariums · Clovis nursing home until 1992 · Nationally televised paranormal attraction (Wolfe Manor) · Demolished November 8, 2014
Anthony Andriotti built the large Clovis Avenue mansion in 1922 as a private home, complete with a ballroom, five bedrooms, and a basement swimming pool. In 1935 it was converted into the Hazelwood Sanitarium, and in 1942 it became the Clovis Avenue Sanitarium. In the 1950s it was licensed by the California Department of Mental Hygiene, and a hospital wing was added in 1954 for the treatment of mental disorders. By the mid-1960s it operated as the Clovis Nursing Home, which closed in 1992.
In 1996, entrepreneur Todd Wolfe acquired the property and turned it into a seasonal haunted attraction called 'Scream If You Can.' For the attraction Wolfe invented a fictional name and back-story for the house, dubbing it the 'Andleberry Estate' with a fabricated 1871 founding — neither of which reflects the building's documented 1922 construction. This invented mythology, including lurid tales of an asylum 'for women' where 'horrible experiments' were performed, was marketing for the attraction rather than history; no such experiments are documented in the building's real record as a 20th-century sanitarium and nursing home.
The property was repeatedly featured on paranormal television, including Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, The Dead Files, My Ghost Story, and MysteryQuest, which cemented its fame as one of California's most-investigated 'haunted' buildings. The city cited the structure for numerous building-code violations and declared it unsafe; it was demolished on November 8, 2014. A Costco opened on the site in 2019.
Sources
The mansion's paranormal reputation is genuinely well known, having been investigated on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, The Dead Files, My Ghost Story, and MysteryQuest. Investigators and visitors reported apparitions, disembodied voices, cold spots, the sense of being watched, and feelings of fear and dread in the building — the kind of activity that made it a fixture of paranormal television in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
The Shadowlands seed for this site repeats the attraction-era mythology: that the property was 'a mansion with an adjacent asylum for women in the 1800s' where 'many horrible experiments were performed,' leaving the ghosts 'frightened and angry.' This framing originated with Todd Wolfe's 'Andleberry Estate' attraction and is not supported by the building's documented history as a 1922 home and a 20th-century sanitarium and nursing home. We present the haunting reputation as real and widely reported, while flagging the 'experiments' narrative as fabricated showmanship rather than fact, and we treat the building's actual role caring for people with mental illness with respect rather than as a horror prop.
With the structure demolished in 2014, the legends now attach to a vanished building and survive chiefly in the recorded television investigations and local memory.
Media Appearances
The mansion known to ghost-hunting television as Wolfe Manor — and to its haunted-attraction era as the 'Andleberry Estate' — stood at 2604 Clovis Avenue until 2014. The original Clovis Avenue Sanitarium building is gone and the lot is now a Costco; the entry documents the site's history and folklore rather than a visitable attraction.
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