Clapboard and shingle storefronts line a narrow waterfront street, with 1700s houses toward the Point.
What Stonington Borough looks like
The densely built borough sits on a point of land that projects into Little Narragansett Bay. runs about three-quarters of a mile from the viaduct down to the Point. It is the main commercial street of the borough. Its wood-frame buildings are two and three storeys tall, in Greek Revival and later nineteenth-century styles, with clapboard and shingle fronts. Projecting shop signs and awnings line the street, and cars park along the kerb.
Overhead wires run above the street. Near the Point the street turns residential, and many of the houses date from the 1700s. They sit behind small gardens and lawns bounded by stone walls.
is rocky and fringed by a small beach. The , a low stone lighthouse from 1840, stands at the Point and is now a museum. The borough keeps one of Connecticut's last commercial fishing fleets, and its boats are moored along the waterfront.
and sit at either end of two main streets. Cannon Square has two iron cannons on its grass, and a small granite Customs House faces Main Street just north of it. The larger houses are on Main Street.
Shot in Stonington Borough
Mystic Pizza (1988) used 70 Water Street as its pizza restaurant and Cannon Square as the corner where Kat delivers pizza. The film also shot the fishing docks here. Hope Springs (2012) dressed the Water Street storefronts as a small fictional town in Maine during the autumn of 2011.
Mystic Pizza and Hope Springs
Water Street and Cannon Square stood in for Mystic in Mystic Pizza. The storefronts on Water Street were dressed again as a Maine town for Hope Springs.
Mystic Pizza, 1988
Played Mystic Pizza, Mystic, Connecticut
A converted home rather than a restaurant, 70 Water Street was dressed as the pizza restaurant for the film. It sits a short walk from Cannon Square.
Mystic Pizza, 1988
Cannon Square
Played Mystic, Connecticut
The film has Kat turning the corner here while she delivers pizza. Two cannons stand on the grass in the square.
Mystic Pizza is set in Mystic, but most of its locations were in neighbouring towns. The borough's Water Street stood in for the village, and 70 Water Street was dressed as the pizza restaurant. The Mystic River bascule bridge the film used is in the village, so a shot that needs a drawbridge has to be made there. Try searching Water Street restaurant now.
Main Street in Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor's Main Street is one of the village's defining nineteenth-century landmarks, and a Greek Revival house of 1845 stands in the village. Water Street's wood-frame storefronts include Greek Revival buildings. The Bay Street marina sits at the foot of Main Street, and its yacht club buildings need framing out of a wide shot. Try searching Greek Revival house now.
