Home from 'Groundhog' getting facelift

WOODSTOCK, Ill., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A home in Woodstock, Ill., featured in the movie "Groundhog Day" is being renovated into a bed and breakfast, a construction company owner says.

Marty Rachford, owner of Marty's Alpine Construction Services Inc., said the new owners of his childhood home are spending nearly $600,000 to transform the Woodstock house into a hospitality site, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.

The home was used as a fictional bed-and-breakfast business in 1993's "Groundhog Day," which starred actor Bill Murray as a man reliving the same day repeatedly.

Rachford said seeing the comedy was unique for him since Murray's character started each day waking up in front of the main window of his former bedroom.

"That room (in the turret) was my room in high school," Rachford, 49, said. "That view was what I looked at every morning."

Rachford told the Tribune after spending much of his youth helping repair the home, he was allowed to return to reinstall an ornament on the home's turret.

"This home was in constant need of repair," he said. "But this was also a nostalgic job for me. It's a blessing to work on the old joint again."