Snow Whites Cottage was the first Disney animated building to become a real physical building. That place, also known as Gamble Place in Port Orange, Florida, was built in 1938 and is now run by the Smithsonian. Many people think that Walt Disney first thought of creating Disneyland when he visited the cottage before he thought of it while sitting down on a park bench watching his kids at a merry go round, which would make the cottage the birthplace of Disneyland and all other theme parks.