Gated Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts mansions on curved private streets, one of them Percy Jackson and the Olympians' Yancy Academy.
What Shaughnessy looks like
Grand houses are set back from the street behind clipped hedges, iron gates and stone walls, on streets that curve and loop rather than follow the city grid. has a planted median down its centre, with mature chestnut and maple trees meeting overhead in places. Some properties are fully hedged from the sidewalk, with only a gate and a stretch of driveway visible from the street.
Most of the large houses went up between 1907 and the 1920s, in Tudor Revival and Arts and Crafts styles. They are built in brick, stone and stucco. Half timbered upper storeys, steep hipped roofs and multiple chimneys are common. , a three storey Edwardian mansion at 1489 McRae Avenue, has a colonnaded front portico facing a circular drive. , on Matthews Avenue, is a Scottish baronial mansion with twin domed towers and a wraparound veranda.
A curved park called , known locally as the Crescent, sits at the centre of the loop the surrounding streets make. Many First Shaughnessy properties are gated, so a house is often visible only past a stretch of open lawn rather than close up.
occupies the neighbourhood's southeast corner along Oak Street, its clipped boxwood parterres, ponds and a glass greenhouse laid out behind a hedge boundary. Gravel paths and brick walkways run between the perennial beds under conifers and Japanese maples.
Shot in Shaughnessy
Hycroft Manor, the Edwardian mansion at 1489 McRae Avenue, has played a private school and a foreign embassy across eight television productions. The Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians used its columned porch and staircase as the entrance to Yancy Academy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, 2023
Hycroft Manor
Played Yancy Academy, present day
Percy Jackson and the Olympians used Hycroft's columned porch and grand staircase as the entrance to Yancy Academy, the boarding school in the Disney+ series. The mansion has also played a Russian embassy in an episode of Human Target and a family estate in Charmed and Stargate SG-1.
Rosedale's Edwardian and Tudor houses sit on deep lots along streets that curve around its ravines instead of following a grid, the same deliberate break from the city plan that Shaughnessy's own streets make. Large hedges and mature trees screen many of the houses from the road in both places. Rosedale's ravine topography and narrower lot frontages show up in a wide or aerial shot, so tighter street level framing holds the match better. Try searching Edwardian houses ravine streets now.
Broadmoor in Seattle, Washington
Broadmoor is a private, gated enclave of Tudor and Arts and Crafts houses on curving streets behind its own perimeter wall, built the same era as Shaughnessy and under the same fir and cedar cover. Both neighbourhoods keep their houses back from the street behind lawns and hedges. Broadmoor's houses sit closer to a golf course than Shaughnessy's do, so keep fairways out of a wide shot. Try searching gated Tudor houses cedar cover now.
Tuxedo Park in New York
Tuxedo Park is a private, gated community of large early 1900s houses behind its own perimeter fence, a similar scale and privacy to First Shaughnessy's own gated properties. Its houses sit on wooded, hillier ground than Shaughnessy's flatter lots. Tuxedo Park's lake and hillside setting are a giveaway in a wide shot, so this works best for a gate or driveway detail rather than a full property view. Try searching private gated houses driveway now.
