Wooden houses in flat colours sit on a slope above the harbour, and the naval dockyard is at the bottom of it.
What North End looks like
Most of the North End is two and three storey wooden houses with bay windows and front steps straight onto the sidewalk. They are painted in flat colours. The ground falls east toward the harbour, so the cross streets are steep and the water shows at the end of many of them.
North of the street grid is newer and runs in tighter, straighter blocks than the pattern to the south. stands on the corner of Russell and Gottingen. It is dark red brick with a white timber belfry and a black spire, built in 1920.
is an English style garden suburb one block deep and ten blocks wide. The houses are in terraces facing wide grass courts, with service lanes behind them. The walls are Hydrostone concrete block under slate roofs, and the shops are in one row along Young Street in the same Tudor Revival as the houses.
South of that line the older houses are still standing. 5516 North Street went up in 1895. It is wood shingled and stands on the property line with no setback at all. Most of its neighbours on that block are the same.
The shops and bars are on and . and the take up the waterfront, and grey hulls are visible from the streets above.
Shot in North End
Sullivan's Crossing filmed on Agricola Street in the summer of 2022. Hali Deli at 2389 Agricola appears in the series as Shandon's Diner, with a different sign over the door.
Hobo with a Shotgun, 2011
Played a pawn shop, Hope Town
Jason Eisener shot the pawn shop robbery on Gottingen Street in the spring of 2010. The set was built inside an empty store on the corner of Portland Place. The Hobo has walked in to buy a lawn mower and takes a shotgun off the shelf instead. Street View
What North End can double for
Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine
Munjoy Hill sits at the high end of Portland's peninsula, and several of its side streets run downhill to Casco Bay the way the cross streets in the North End run down to Halifax harbour. Most of its houses are two and three storey wood frame construction from the 1890s to early 1900s, painted in flat colours and close in scale to North Street and Brunswick Street. Vesper, Morning and North Streets are dense with triple deckers and their stacked porches, a New England housing type the North End does not have. Keep those blocks out of a wide shot. The wooden Portland Observatory tower on the hill's crest is a recognizable Portland landmark and needs to stay out of frame too. Try searching wood frame houses flat colours now.
Townsite in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador
Thomas Adams laid out the Hydrostone after the 1917 Halifax explosion. In 1923 he used the same Garden City principles at Corner Brook's Townsite, built for the workers at a new paper mill on the west coast of Newfoundland. Townsite's streets curve to follow the hillside rather than running straight like the Hydrostone's ten blocks, and the houses sit back from the road behind small gardens. The Townsite walls are wood frame rather than the Hydrostone's concrete block, so a close shot needs to confirm the siding and paint colours on the Corner Brook houses first. The comparison holds on the garden suburb street plan and the worker housing scale, not on the wall material. Try searching wood frame worker housing now.
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