Tulane and Loyola face St. Charles Avenue, the streetcar avenue where 22 Jump Street and Happy Death Day both shot as a fictional campus.
What Uptown looks like
St. Charles Avenue narrows to one lane in each direction along this stretch, with the streetcar running on tracks laid into the grass median between the two roadways. Live oaks planted down the median arch over the tracks and the sidewalks on both sides. Large houses face the avenue from behind iron fences, close enough together that their porches and side galleries nearly touch. One turreted house near is painted pink and cream, its wraparound porch behind a black iron fence.
fronts the avenue in grey stone with round arches and a squat tower, built in 1894 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Behind it the quads run brick classroom buildings and dormitories under palm trees, bounded by a low iron fence along the sidewalk. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library sits further into campus, a concrete block with a glass and steel upper floor cantilevered over its entrance.
Loyola sits a few blocks down the avenue from Tulane, its own iron fence and gate facing St. Charles. is red brick with limestone trim, finished in 1910. Twin castellated towers rise over pointed windows facing the avenue. stands beside it on the same quad, a Gothic Revival tower in matching brick with stained glass set behind pointed arches. Audubon Park's lawns and oaks run along the opposite side of the avenue, its 350 acres bordered by the river on the far side.
The streetcars themselves are olive green, built in the 1920s and still the cars in daily service on this line. They stop right outside both campus gates.
Shot in Uptown
Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans stand side by side on St. Charles Avenue. Both show up on screen fairly often, almost always playing somewhere other than themselves. Fox's Scream Queens filmed across Tulane's Gibson and Newcomb Quads in 2015, using the campus as its fictional Wallace University. The Perfect Date used Gibson Hall and the quad in front of it as Yale in 2019, with no dressing on the stone or the lawns.
22 Jump Street, 2014
Played MC State University, present day
22 Jump Street shot on Tulane's campus in 2013. Howard-Tilton Memorial Library appears, along with Gibson Quad and Newcomb Quad. A college friendship scene was also shot on part of Loyola's campus next door. So Undercover, two years earlier, filmed behind the same library.
Happy Death Day 2U, 2019
The church on Loyola's quad
Played Bayfield University, present day
The sequel used Holy Name of Jesus Church again, the Gothic building on Loyola's quad at 6367 St. Charles Avenue. It also used the walkway between Marquette and Thomas Halls, and returned to a sorority house a block away on St. Charles.
Happy Death Day, 2017
Marquette Hall
Played Bayfield University, present day
Marquette Hall, completed in 1910, is Loyola's oldest building and the one that faces St. Charles Avenue. Happy Death Day used it in 2017, along with Stallings and Bobet Halls and a fraternity and sorority house on the same block. The sequel came back to Marquette Hall two years later.
What Uptown can double for
Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Tulane's Gibson Hall already played Yale for The Perfect Date, its grey stone Romanesque front and quad used for New Haven with nothing changed. Yale's own courtyards sit inside taller Gothic buildings on every side, so a wide shot here shows more open sky than the real campus. Keep the frame on Gibson Hall's stone facade and its quad rather than the wider avenue, where the palm trees and iron fence give away New Orleans. Try searching grey stone quad now.
Duke University East Campus in Durham, North Carolina
Duke's East Campus is Georgian red brick behind a low fence, with a wide central quad flanked by matching dormitories, close in scale to the Tulane and Loyola quads fronting St. Charles Avenue. Its towers and window trim run plainer than Marquette Hall's Gothic front, so a wide shot here does not point to one particular school. The brick at Duke runs a deeper red than Tulane's grey stone, so keep the two campuses out of the same frame if cutting between them. Try searching red brick quad now.
Victory Drive in Savannah, Georgia
Victory Drive runs under its own live oak canopy, planted down a median lined with columned verandas and colonial revival mansions set back from the curb much like St. Charles Avenue's houses. The houses here sit larger and more spread out than Uptown's tighter blocks, and no streetcar runs down Victory Drive's median. Frame close on a porch and the oaks rather than a full block, since the wider median and newer infill along Victory Drive would give it away next to St. Charles. Try searching columned oak verandas now.
