Single houses with tiered piazzas end at White Point Garden's seawall, and The Notebook used the Calhoun Mansion's real interior as Allie's family summer house.
What South of Broad looks like
and are narrow and oak shaded, lined with Charleston single houses turned side on to the street, gable end to the sidewalk and a tiered piazza running back along the long side. Wrought iron gates and low garden walls screen the ground floor, with boxwood hedges and palmettos filling the space behind them.
Some houses stand freestanding rather than attached, three storeys of stucco over masonry or painted wood siding with columned piazzas stacked one above the other. A few keep their stucco patched and streaked rather than freshly painted, arched windows and green shutters left as found. Toward the blocks tighten into brick rowhouses, black shutters and small iron gates in place of the piazzas.
Behind the main houses, carriage houses and outbuildings sit on brick courtyards under live oaks, yellow stucco walls facing narrow service lanes. The grid ends at , where oak canopy arches over gravel paths and Civil War era cannon still face the harbor.
continues the seawall past the largest mansions, iron balconies and columned piazzas looking out toward Fort Sumter. 's pastel Georgian row houses sit at the neighborhood's northern edge on East Bay Street.
Shot in South of Broad
For The Notebook, the production used the Calhoun Mansion's real interior as Allie's family summer house. The scenes of young Allie arguing with her parents were filmed inside its own rooms.
The Notebook, 2004
The Calhoun Mansion, also called the Williams Mansion, is an Italianate house built in 1876 for merchant George Walton Williams. Its interior served as Allie's family summer house, and the arguments between Allie and her parents were filmed inside the real rooms. Street View
What South of Broad can double for
The Point in Beaufort, South Carolina
The Point in Beaufort has the same piazza houses under oak canopy on a river point, mostly built across the mid 1800s. Beaufort's Point runs a few blocks rather than dozens, so a wide shot looking for large freestanding mansions like Calhoun's gives it away. Try searching piazza houses under oak canopy now.
Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia
Chippewa Square is ringed with Georgian townhouses under live oaks, the same stucco and brick facades and two and three storey scale as Meeting Street. Savannah's squares are the tell, so keep the frame on one block face rather than pulling back to the open square itself. Try searching Georgian townhouses under live oaks now.
The Garden District's grand mansions with iron galleries and columned porches match the scale of the freestanding houses on East Battery, most built across the same mid to late 1800s span. New Orleans' denser ironwork and shotgun houses next door give it away in a wide shot, so favor a tight frame on one mansion's facade. Try searching grand mansion with iron galleries now.
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