Two and three storey brick and sandstone storefronts from the 1900s and 1910s line 9th Avenue SE, where the FX series Fargo used two separate corners as Minnesota.
What Inglewood looks like
9th Avenue SE is the commercial strip, two lanes wide with diagonal curb parking and storefronts that open straight onto the sidewalk. Most of the buildings along it are two and three storeys of brick and sandstone, arched window heads over the upper floors and flat parapets holding painted signs close together down the block.
The sits a few doors from the . Their dates are cut into the stone, 1907 and 1912, above matching display windows and a shared cornice line. Farther east, the rises four storeys, taller than its neighbours. Three arched windows cross its top floor, and the building's name is cut into a stone panel below the roof.
is a two storey brick building with twin arched bays at street level, a stepped cornice still reading its old name above the entrance, now operating as a pub. The former telephone exchange nearby is a single storey brick building set back behind a picket fence, its own pitched roof distinct from the flat roofed blocks around it. At the corner with 11th Street, the spells its name in roof level lettering above a buff brick corner with storefronts on both street faces.
stands one block south, a red brick building with a crenellated corner tower and tall lancet windows. East along the avenue, the Elbow River runs behind open parkland at the , cottonwoods along the bank and a timber footbridge with peeled log railings crossing one of its side channels.
Shot in Inglewood
At 1225 9th Avenue SE, Inglewood Pizza became Norm's Pizza in the first season of the FX series Fargo. Its own counter and pass through window stayed largely in view. A storefront two doors away, at 1201 9th Avenue SE, was used for additional exteriors in the third season.
Fargo
9th Avenue SE. The production used two separate storefronts, three seasons apart, as small town Minnesota streets.
Fargo, 2014
Inglewood Pizza
Played Norm's Pizza, a small town in Minnesota, 2006
Inglewood Pizza, on 9th Avenue SE, stands in as Norm's Pizza in the FX series Fargo. The storefront keeps its own counter and pizza oven in view, playing a small Minnesota pizzeria across the show's first season. Street View
Fargo, 2017
Played a storefront, Minnesota, 2010
The storefront at 1201 9th Avenue SE, then home to the Delightful Cafe, was used for additional exterior filming in the third season of Fargo. The source naming the location does not say which scene or business it plays on screen. Street View
What Inglewood can double for
Main Street in Fort Macleod, Alberta
Fort Macleod's Main Street rebuilt itself in brick and locally quarried sandstone after a 1906 fire leveled the original wooden storefronts, at the same two storey Edwardian commercial scale as 9th Avenue SE, with similar arched window heads and flat parapets. A wide establishing shot needs correcting for scale, since the real blocks run slightly longer and the sandstone reads paler in direct sun, but a doorway or storefront frame holds up without the two hour drive out of Calgary. Try searching sandstone commercial storefronts now.
First Street SE in Medicine Hat, Alberta
Built the same pre war decade as 9th Avenue SE, First Street SE shows the same brick and sandstone storefronts, with similar display windows and corner quoins over a two or three block run. Medicine Hat's street is wider and its curb parking sits at a different angle, so a tight frame along the sidewalk edge reads closer than a full street width shot. Try searching brick storefronts corner quoins now.
Livingston rebuilt its own Main Street storefronts in brick after fires swept the town in the 1880s, with Romanesque arches and patterned brickwork from the railroad boom that followed, a similar scale to the Burn and Aull blocks though a decade or two earlier in style. Livingston's cornices are more ornate and its mountain backdrop needs keeping out of any wide shot for the comparison to hold. Try searching railroad town brick storefronts now.
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