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The Müuse Atlas
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United States
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Massachusetts
Boston
12 areas on the atlas.
Areas
Back Bay
Filming in Back Bay, Boston. Brownstone rows from 1859 to 1900, and the library Spotlight filmed from Copley Square.
Charlestown
Filming in Charlestown, Boston. Brick and clapboard rowhouses climb a hillside above a former navy yard, where The Town opened with a shot of the Bunker Hill Monument.
Davis Square
Filming in Davis Square, Somerville. A six way brick junction with a working theatre marquee, and the balcony Alexander Payne used for The Holdovers.
Dorchester
Filming in Dorchester, Boston. Three decker houses with stacked porches ring Fields Corner, where Gone Baby Gone filmed the McCready family home.
East Boston
Filming in East Boston. Brick storefronts ring Maverick Square and wood frame triple deckers climb Eagle Hill behind it, the streets the Equalizer films used twice.
Fort Point
Filming in Fort Point, Boston. Six storey brick warehouses on a mill street grid by the channel, and the rooftop The Departed used above Farnsworth Street.
Harvard Square
Filming in Harvard Square, Cambridge. A triangular brick plaza against Harvard Yard's wall, and the newsstand kiosk The Social Network used as itself.
Jamaica Plain
Filming in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Wood frame triple deckers on the side streets, and the Washington Street tavern that played McGill's in Mystic River.
Kendall Square
Filming in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Low brick mill buildings stand beside new glass laboratory towers along a canal basin, and American Hustle used the Barker Engineering Library at MIT for its Senate hearing scenes.
North End
Filming in the North End, Boston. Four and five storey brick tenements line narrow colonial-era streets, and The Brink's Job shot its robbery at the real Brink's headquarters on Prince Street.
Seaport District
Filming in Seaport District, Boston. Glass office towers and hotels on filled land, and the convention center 21 used as an underground casino.
South End
Filming in South End, Boston. Bowfront brick and brownstone rowhouses from the 1850s to the 1880s, and the Benjamin Franklin Institute building Boston Strangler dressed as a police headquarters.
