Red brick mill complexes along the Woonasquatucket River, and the hot wiener stand where Brotherhood filmed.
What Olneyville looks like
is a 330,000 square foot complex built in 1852 on Manton Avenue. The Earnscliffe complex sits nearby on the same avenue, eleven brick buildings put up between 1898 and about 1939. Both are red brick with pier and spandrel walls and rows of exceptionally large arched windows. Chain link fencing runs along both mill yards. The , known as the Rising Sun Mill, are thirteen connected buildings along Valley Street on the Woonasquatucket River. They run one to five storeys under a mix of mansard, flat and gabled roofs.
is a five way junction. Westminster Street, Broadway, Hartford Avenue, Plainfield Street and Manton Avenue all meet there. A disused rail line crosses Pilsudski Avenue at grade nearby, the tracks still set in the asphalt. A former electric substation stands close to the square in red brick with tall arched window openings, boarded over and fenced off behind a bright red painted entry.
A red brick fire station with three garage doors sits on Atwells Avenue at the northern edge. On Plainfield Street at the square, Olneyville New York System runs a hot wiener counter under its original neon sign. A three storey red brick commercial building stands at a nearby corner, its ground floor windows arched under a plain cornice.
Shot in Olneyville
The Showtime series Brotherhood filmed scenes at Olneyville New York System, the hot wiener stand on Olneyville Square. The restaurant's own real building appears on screen rather than a set built for the show.
Brotherhood, 2006
Olneyville New York System
A handful of meetings were filmed here during the show's first several episodes, with the restaurant's own employees appearing in the background rather than hired extras. It is still a working hot wiener stand under the same name. Street View
What Olneyville can double for
Amoskeag Millyard in Manchester, New Hampshire
The Amoskeag Millyard is red brick mill buildings built between the 1830s and 1910s, set in long blocks with rows of tall windows along the Merrimack River. The scale and brickwork are close to Olneyville's own mills. Amoskeag's mills carry taller bell and stair towers than Olneyville's, so keep those out of a wide shot that needs to hold the match. Try searching red brick mill windows now.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River's brick textile mills along the water carry the same pier and spandrel walls and window rhythm as Olneyville's, most of them built between the 1870s and 1900s. Its granite mills sit farther up the hill in a different material. Stay along the brick textile mills near the water for the match, since the granite mills above the hill are cut from a different stone entirely. Try searching brick textile mills now.
