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But like most TV shows, it wound up being filmed mostly in Los Angeles. law office of criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating (played by star Viola Davis): This Victorian is a real home, built in 1895. But it's certainly not in Pennsylvania. You'll find it at 1130 W. 27th Street, in
the "North University Park District" of south Los Angeles, The neighborhood contains a number of notable homes (mostly Victorian and Craftsman style), including the Doheny mansion, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is a
Google StreetView of that Victorian house:
If you've ever been inside an old Victorian home, you'll know that the rooms are So they built the interior of Annalise Keating's
home as a set on Stage 16 The interior set includes the stained-glass front door & entryway we often Early on in the first episode, we see law student 'Wesley Gibbins' bicycle through the But in real life, this is actually the USC campus (the University of Southern
California), In fact, in the screenshot above, he is biking very close to the famous statue of ( The USC campus is only a few blocks southwest of the Victorian house we saw earlier. ) In the screencap below, we see him stop, and walk into "Middleton Law School",
That building is actually
Bovard Auditorium, at USC - right across from the Student Union:
As you can see, it doesn't match the interior of
Annalise Keating's lecture hall. Here is a good Google Panorama of the same part of the USC campus.
This is where it gets a bit odd... The usual practice of TV shows that pretend
to be somewhere other than L.A. is to But this time, for some reason, they did the exact opposite. After shooting the exterior at USC, they actually went to Pennsylvania They filmed inside Olin Auditorium, at Ursinus College, in
Collegeville, PA.
Even then, they had to build a set to make the stage look the way they wanted it to look. And they have since built a near-identical classroom set at Sunset-Gower Studios
At the start of the show's second episode, Annalise Keating takes her
law students to the We see them walking under a gilded dome, past an array of stuffed animal trophies, while
Built in 1899, this was the turn-of-the-Century home of oil tycoon Edward Doheny, It's located just a few blocks east of the Victorian home, and less than Chester Place is a private street filled with Victorian mansions, located north of USC. This round, ornate room, with its dome & marble columns, is known as the Pompeian Room. The mansion has appeared on screen before - often - including in movies such as "The Gilmore Girls", "Angel", "Sliders", "Murder She Wrote" and "Alias". Here's a photo of the outside of the Doheny mansion:
and the Pompeian Room's dome: (You can read more about the Doheny mansion here.)
They shot both at a rental studio called Riverfront Stages, which offers a number of standing
The first is called
"Treadwell", and is located at 3061 Treadwell Street, in Atwater Village. But for the second episode, they moved to Riverfront's other studio: "Telfair",
They used the same Telfair location for the hallway scenes outside the courtroom. at 200 N. Spring Street, in downtown L.A. They shot this scene under the archways on the Hall's west side, facing Spring Street.Here is a Google StreetView of those west steps & arches: Speaking of her ex-lover, Nate, in a second-episode scene, Annalise Keating goesto Nate's apartment house at night, when she becomes worried that her husband may have killed a girl. Nate wants nothing to do with her, but he can see how genuinely worried she is, so he agrees to help. That's on a residential street just south of Paramount Studios. Here is a Google StreetView of the apartment house.
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