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J. Reason Fowkkes’ House from “Bosch”
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Honey Chandler’s House from “Bosch”
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The “Bosch” House
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Alicia Kent’s House from “Bosch”
I’m just gonna say it – Bosch is straight-up real estate porn! There isn’t one residence that has been featured on the long-running Amazon police procedural that I wouldn’t want to live in! The striking cantilevered cliffside abode belonging to Harry (Titus Welliver), Chief Irving’s (Lance Reddick) charming Spanish dwelling, and, in the latest season, the sleek mid-century modern home of (spoiler!) victim-turned-suspect Alicia Kent (Lynn Collins). They are all perfection! One look at the latter’s massive wooden double front doors, tiered front steps, and cement siding, and I was smitten! So I set out to find it.
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A “2647” address number was visible on the curb in front of the house in the Season 6 premiere, titled “The Overlook.”
And thanks to a view of the backyard shown in episode 4, “Part of the Deal,” I knew the pad was situated in the Hollywood Hills just below the Hollywood Sign. So I started searching 2600 blocks in that area and quickly came across Alicia’s home at 2641 Lake Hollywood Drive. As it turns out, the last digit of the address was changed from a “1 “to a “7” for the Bosch shoot. Nice try, producers, but you have to wake up pretty early in the morning to fool me!
In real life, the striking property boasts 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2,997 square feet of living space, an entrance atrium, floor-to-ceiling glass sliders, a media room, a fireplace, a maid’s room with a bath, a 0.43-acre lot, a large pool, a spa, and sweeping views of the Lake Hollywood Reservoir, Palos Verdes and downtown L.A. You can check out some MLS photos of the interior from when it last sold in 2010 here.
Per building permits, both the interior and exterior of the 1965 pad were extensively remodeled in 2012.
The property’s original façade is pictured in the top Google Street View image below.
Though dated, the place was pretty spectacular even then!
But today it is downright stunning!
Harry initially visits the house in “The Overlook” while performing an emergency welfare check on Alicia, the wife of a medical physicist whose murdered body has just been discovered.
The pad goes on to appear in several additional episodes of Season 6.
Bosch captured the home and all of its mid-century glory beautifully.
The place’s actual interior is also utilized on the show. As you can see in the images below as compared to the 2010 MLS photos, the inside looks quite a bit different today than it did when the property last sold.
The incredible backyard is featured on Bosch, as well, and is, in my opinion, the showpiece of the entire house.
On a stalking side-note – My friend Shaun recently started a filming locations/pop culture landmarks/historical sites blog named All About Los Angeles. I’ve long been a fan of his Instagram account and his photogenic way of showcasing the city’s many highlights. Thanks to his unique interests, he has even managed to introduce me to countless new-to-me spots, which is saying a lot considering I’ve been at this crazy hobby a long time. You can check out his new site here!
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Stalk It: Alicia Kent’s house from Bosch is located at 2641 Lake Hollywood Drive in the Hollywood Hills.
Chief Irving’s House from “Bosch”
Bosch never fails to disappoint when it comes to locations – or storylines, for that matter. The latest season, the show’s 6th (Bosch is Amazon’s longest-running original series, incidentally!), was no different. One spot stood out far above the rest, though – the spectacular Spanish home where Chief Irvin Irving (Lance Reddick) lived with Jun Park (Linda Park). One look at the beamed ceilings, wrought-iron chandeliers, and tiled fireplace, and I was completely smitten. So, of course, I set right out to find it.
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Thankfully, a street sign reading “4300 West 8th” was visible in the season’s first episode, titled “The Overlook,” in the scene in which Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) drives away from Irving’s house, leaving him standing alone on the front sidewalk.
Upon spotting the signage, I promptly headed over to 4300 West 8th Street, Los Angeles via Google Street View, and, sure enough, there was Irving’s residence staring back at me from the southeast corner of 8th and Plymouth Boulevard! Hardly able to contain my excitement, I drove out to L.A. last week to stalk it – from an appropriate social distance of, course!
In person, the place did not disappoint.
And, as it turns out, boasts quite an interesting history.
The sprawling Mission Revival-style pad was originally designed by architect Frank Meline in 1922 as a Sunday school/rectory for a local Methodist church. The bell-tower-looking chimney certainly reflects that.
The church sold the property in 1926 to the Ruskin Art Club, a women’s organization dedicated to supporting the arts and artists of Southern California. The group proceeded to utilize the structure, which is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #639, as a clubhouse for the next nine decades.
Sadly, the site fell into quite a bit of disrepair during the later years of the Ruskin Art Club’s tenancy. By 2014, the group found itself no longer able to maintain it and put it on the market. Scott Lander of Lander Design quickly snapped the place up and began transforming it into a single-family residence. Though it was in pretty bad shape when he got his hands on it, his renovation is nothing short of exquisite! You can check out some before and after pics here.
Today, the dwelling boasts 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2,890 square feet, countless original details, a living room with exposed beams, multiple Batchelder tile fireplaces, a central courtyard, a detached 2-car garage, and a 1-bedroom, 1-bath guest house.
Oh, and a massive 0.34-acre corner lot.
You can check out some additional interior images of it here.
As I discovered while writing this post, Chief Irving’s house actually first made an appearance during Bosch’s fifth season. I failed to take note of it at the time, though, I think largely because the dazzling vaulted ceiling was never shown.
It was not until Season 6’s “Three Widows” that we were given a glimpse of it and I was stopped right in my tracks!
Though the MLS images above and below were taken from opposite angles than what was shown on Bosch, you can still see that the home looks just as gorgeous in real life as it did onscreen. In fact, it appears that some of the actual décor and furniture were even utilized on the show!
The residence’s exterior also makes a few appearances this season . . .
. . . including in the finale, titled “Some Measure of Justice,” when Irving holds a press conference to announce he is withdrawing his mayoral bid.
And it is in the home’s pastoral courtyard that Irving and June tie the knot in the episode titled “Money, Honey.”
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Stalk It: Chief Irving’s house from Bosch, aka the former Ruskin Art Club, is located at 800 South Plymouth Boulevard in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles.
The Petitfils-Boos Residence from “Hollywood”
My stalking backlog is ridiculously large, so much so that I often forget places I’ve been. Case in point? The Petitfils-Boos Residence. (With a name like that, you’d think I would have remembered it, right?) I stalked the historic Windsor Square mansion way back in November 2012 (which is crazy to me – looking at the photos, I feel as if it was just yesterday!) after it made a brief appearance on Dexter and then it promptly slipped my mind. Though I was reminded of the place when I saw it pop up on Feud: Bette and Joan in 2017, I somehow quickly forgot about it again. It was not until I spotted the pad in an episode of the new Netflix miniseries Hollywood recently that I decided it was finally time for a post! So here goes!
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The Italian Renaissance Revival-style mansion was designed in 1922 by architect Charles F. Plummer for Walter M. Petitfils, one of the confectioners behind the gorgeous Dutch Chocolate Shop in downtown L.A. Walter didn’t stay on the premises long – in 1927 he sold the pad to his friends Henry and Cassie Boos, hence its hyphenated, hard-to-pronounce name.
Not only is the property absolutely HUGE – between the main house and the guest house, it measures a total of 10,120 square feet! – but it looks even bigger than it actually is thanks to its V-shape and diagonal placement on a corner lot.
The 2-story estate boasts an 8,594-square-foot main house with 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, walnut paneling, stained glass windows, archways, murals hand-painted by Dutch artist Anthony Heinsbergen, and a Gladding, McBean terra cotta tile façade. There’s also a 1,526-square-foot guest house, a 0.74-acre lot, a pool, a hot tub, a BBQ, multiple gardens, a loggia, a courtyard, and a detached 2-car garage. You can check out some interior images of it here.
Every square inch of the place is stunning – even the front gate! With those dripping topiaries, the residence looks straight out of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Not only is the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but the Los Angeles Conservancy procured an easement on the entire frontage, assuring no alterations can ever be made to the exterior.
Considering the manse’s Old Hollywood feel, its appearance on the 1940s-set Hollywood must have been a no-brainer for producers. The residence pops up in the episode titled “Hooray for Hollywood: Part 2” as the supposed former Beverly Hills home of Bugsy Siegel – “Might even be the house he got shot in!” according to Ernie West (Dylan McDermott) – where Jack Castello (David Corenswet) escorts Avis Amberg (Patti LuPone) to an estate sale of the slain gangster’s belongings.
While there Avis bids on – and wins – a soup tureen that she says Bugsy borrowed from her and never returned.
Hollywood is hardly the Petitfils-Boos Residence’s first rodeo.
As I mentioned, the estate was featured on Dexter in 2012. In the Season 7 episode titled “Are You . . . ?”, it masks as the Ukrainian mansion of Isaak Sirko (Ray Stevenson).
In 2014, it portrayed the home of Governor Paul Lane (Joel Gretsch) and his family in the Season 1 episode of Scorpion titled ‘”Single Point of Failure.”
Jennifer Aniston posed there for People magazine’s 2016 World’s Most Beautiful issue. You can see some video clips of the shoot here.
Jennifer Garner also posed at the mansion in 2016 for the March issue of Vanity Fair. You can watch a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot here.
The Petitfils-Boos Residence played Hedda Hopper’s (Judy Davis) home – or as she calls it, “the house that fear built” – in the pilot episode of Feud: Bette and Joan, which aired in 2017.
And it popped up several times as the dwelling of Police Commission President Bradley Walker (John Getz) during the fourth season of Bosch, which aired in 2018.
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Stalk It: The Petitfils-Boos Residence, aka Bugsy Siegel’s house from the “Hooray for Hollywood: Part 2” episode of Hollywood, is located at 545 South Plymouth Boulevard in Windsor Square.
The Theatre at Ace Hotel from “Bosch”
The latest season of Bosch, which kept me thoroughly entertained during this quarantine, featured countless new-to-me restaurants that I am itching to stalk! I can only hope they are still in business when this craziness ends. Fortunately, I did spot one locale that I previously stalked but have yet to blog about – The Theatre at Ace Hotel, a gorgeous and historic venue that began life as the famed United Artists Theatre. I visited the auditorium via the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour (another enterprise I hope is still in operation when businesses are allowed to reopen) back on June 20th, 2015 and was thoroughly awed! I am thrilled to finally be able to dedicate a post to the place.
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The venue was initially built in 1927 as the flagship theatre for United Artists, the independent film studio established by Hollywood legends Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith.
The Spanish Gothic-style auditorium is situated on the bottom 3 levels of a 14-story building designed by Walker & Eisen.
Inspired by a recent vacation, Pickford and Fairbanks sought to include European elements in the design of the theatre itself and enlisted C. Howard Crane to realize their vision.
The finished product is nothing short of stunning, with gilded mirrors, elaborately carved plasterwork, and murals galore!
They truly just don’t build ’em like this anymore!
The detailing is absolutely remarkable!
I mean!
The auditorium itself is the real showpiece, though!
Its focal point is a circular mirrored and crystal dome that reflects light and color in an absolutely dazzling way.
Green lighting gels were in use when I visited, which cast the entire space in an emerald glow to magnificent effect.
It felt like I had wandered into the Land of Oz!
The Great Depression hit the venue hard. In the years following, it closed several times and went through several ownership changes before ceasing theatre operations entirely in 1989.
The following year, the site was leased to the Los Angeles University Cathedral church. The group occupied the theatre for the following two decades and even wound up purchasing the building that housed it at some point.
University Cathedral put the building on the market in 2010 and it sold to hotel developer Greenfield Partners the next year. The Ace Hotel was quickly tapped to manage the site and a restoration soon got underway.
The 189-room Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles opened to the public on January 6th, 2014. The former United Artists space became a special events/live performance venue known as The Theatre at Ace Hotel.
It’s also, of course, a filming location.
In the Season 6 episode of Bosch aptly titled “The Ace Hotel,” Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) tracks FBI Agent Maxwell (Carter MacIntyre), a murder suspect, to the Ace Hotel . . .
. . . and winds up chasing him through the theatre.
Bosch is hardly the first production to feature the space, though it hasn’t wound up onscreen nearly as much as I would have thought.
The United Artist’s lit and unlit marquee is visible a couple of times in the 1950 noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Benny Goodman (Steve Allen) plays there in the 1956 biopic The Benny Goodman Story.
The venue portrays a New York theatre in 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success.
Mr. T (Robert Hooks) breaks into the venue and then into one of the offices upstairs in the 1972 crime flick Trouble Man.
Ashe Corven (Vincent Perez) scales the building in 1996’s The Crow: City of Angels, though most of what we see is a model, per the Historic L.A. Theatres in Movies blog.
Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) also auditions for a performing arts school spot at the theatre in the 2015 horror film Insidious: Chapter 3.
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Stalk It: The Theatre at Ace Hotel, from “The Ace Hotel” episode of Bosch, is located at 929 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. You can visit the venue’s official website here and the hotel’s here.
611 Place from “The Morning Show”
I hope y’all aren’t sick of The Morning Show locations yet, cause I’ve got a few more up my sleeve, namely the site that portrays UBA Studios, where the titular show-within-the-show is filmed on the new Apple TV+ series. At first blush, I thought the locale was most likely in New York, where the program is set and partially filmed. But once I identified the Starbucks at 6th and Grand in downtown L.A. as the spot where Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) is invited to a birthday party in episode 4, “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around,” I quickly realized that the UBA scenes were lensed right across the street at a towering structure known as 611 Place. Fortunately, I happened to be in DTLA just a few days after my discovery, so I popped by to check it out.
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Constructed as the headquarters for Crocker-Citizens Bank in 1969, the building originally went by the name Crocker-Citizens Plaza.
The formidable modernist structure was designed by architect William Pereira, who also gave us Fox Plaza (aka Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard), Farralone (aka the former Frank Sinatra estate), and the Disneyland Hotel.
The 42-story cross-shaped tower, which sits atop a four-level block base, boasts vertical steel beaming, 715,000 square feet of office and retail space, a marble-clad lobby, and a ground-floor bank complete with a vault.
At 620 feet, Crocker-Citizens Plaza was the tallest building in Los Angeles at the time of its completion (and only the second to surpass the height of City Hall), a record it held briefly until ARCO Plaza (now City National Plaza) was constructed in 1972.
When Crocker-Citizens Bank vacated the locale in 1983, it was purchased by AT&T and renamed AT&T Center, though many referred to it (and still refer to it, in fact) as the AT&T Building.
AT&T’s tenure ended in 1999, at which point the Chetrit Group, a New York-based development firm, acquired the building and it was re-named once again, this time to 611 Place, in honor of its 611 West 6th Street address.
Per the Urbanize Los Angeles website, the upper floors have been mostly vacant for a decade and, while Chetrit is said to have obtained entitlements way back in 2007 to transform the office spaces into condos, those plans have yet to come to fruition. When I was stalking the place, though, I saw plenty of people coming and going from the elevators, making their way through the large lobby, so I am not sure how empty the building actually is. Regardless, filming is definitely one way the site is bringing in revenue.
611 Place repeatedly pops up as UBA Studios on The Morning Show.
The series makes use of the building’s Grand Avenue side.
Unfortunately, a UPS truck was parked right in front of the Grand Avenue entrance when I attempted to take a matching shot of the screen capture below, so Google Street View imagery will have to do.
It is not hard to see how 611 Place wound up on The Morning Show as it does very much have the look and feel of a New York building, especially with its brass revolving door which Bradley, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) are regularly seen entering and exiting.
Some CGI trickery was employed to add to the building’s NYC feel in episode 4, “That Woman.” As you can see, imagery of the iconic Cartier Mansion on Fifth Avenue was superimposed in the background of a scene taking place outside of 611 Place.
The special effects team wasn’t very thorough, though, because seconds later, the Edwards & Wildey Building, the actual structure located in that spot, is clearly visible where Cartier stood just moments before.
The lobby of 611 Place also regularly appears on The Morning Show.
The friendly security guard on duty during my stalk was nice enough to allow me to snap interior photos of the lobby and even pointed out which areas of it were used! As you can see below, some turnstiles were added to the premises for the shoot, as were sconces above the elevator.
The interior of the actual studio where the show-within-the-show is shot was nothing more than a set built inside of a soundstage on the Sony lot in Culver City.
611 Place is actually a longtime screen star.
Way back in 1973, William Dorn (Chuck Connors) set off a bomb outside of the building, killing himself in the process, at the end of The Police Connection, aka The Mad Bomber.
611 Place served as the headquarters of MacGregor Oil in the 1983 drama Uncommon Valor.
That same year, it popped up as the office building where Caroline Butler (Teri Garr) worked in the comedy Mr. Mom.
Pinball’s (Dave Chappelle) body is tossed from a plane and lands on a car in front of 611 Place in the 1997 thriller Con Air.
It is seen briefly as the casualty of an earthquake in the 2000 disaster flick Epicenter.
The now vacant bank space on the building’s lower level is where Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) heads to empty his safety deposit box in 2003’s Matchstick Men.
Leland Van Lew (Bryan Brown) base jumps off the neighboring KPMG Center at 550 South Hope Street in the 2004 romcom Along Came Polly, giving audiences a brief view of 611 Place during his descent.
And it recently popped up as the FBI office Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) and Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector) visited in the Season 6 episode of Bosch titled “Good People on Both Sides.”
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Stalk It: 611 Place, aka UBA Studios from The Morning Show, is located at 611 West 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The Starbucks featured in the series’ fifth episode, “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around,” is right across the street at 523 West 6th Street.
The Starbucks from “The Morning Show”
I love a good Starbucks location! I mean, what’s better than stalking and being able to pick up a great cup of coffee at the same time? So I was thrilled to recognize an outpost of the java giant while watching the fifth episode of The Morning Show, titled “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around,” recently. As it turns out, the café is a place I’ve visited countless times over the years and even blogged about once back in 2013. Situated on the corner of West 6th Street and Grand Avenue in downtown L.A., the coffee shop is just steps from the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, where the Grim Cheaper and I regularly used to check in when seeking a staycation while living in Los Angeles. As fate would have it, my parents booked a room at the property just last week, so I, of course, tagged along in order to do a little Starbucks re-stalk.
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The Starbucks at 6th and Grand has been a staple of the neighborhood for more than a decade.
Before that, the space, situated in the southwest corner of the ground floor of the picturesque PacMutual building, housed a Grand Central Coffee outpost and then a Tully’s Coffee.
The Starbucks looks quite a bit different today than when I originally stalked it six years ago thanks to an extensive remodel that took place in late 2017 during which the interior was gutted, the front doors moved from the store’s south to west side, and the café expanded into the unit next door which formerly housed a deli.
The result is a massive, modern space with plenty of seating, a huge front counter, and wraparound windows.
I love the muted green color scheme and concrete design elements which give it a bit of a different feel than a typical Starbucks.
It is at the coffee shop that Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) runs into her co-workers Hannah Shoenfeld (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Claire Conway (Bel Powley), who invite her out to celebrate Claire’s birthday, in “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around.”
By only showing one small corner of the café in the scene and none of the familiar Starbucks signage, it seems that producers went out of their way to make the place appear to be a random coffee house and not an outpost of the retail giant. Had it not been for the green umbrellas visible outside the window, as well as the view of the Edwards & Wildey Building (now known as Milano Lofts) across the street, I might not have recognized the location. It’s a good thing I know my Starbucks!
The 6th and Grand outpost is actually a frequent film star.
It appeared very briefly in the background of the 1999 drama Fight Club in the scene in which The Narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) blew up an electronics store.
Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) and Amy Gardner (Mary-Louise Parker) discussed welfare reform at the site back when it was a Tully’s Coffee in the Season 3 episode of The West Wing titled “Posse Comitatus,” which aired in 2002.
Though the Tully’s signage was left intact on the front doors, the space was utilized to portray the fictional “Phil’s Bar” in the 2004 romcom Little Black Book. In another odd move, the imagery of the bar’s exterior was also flipped in the scene, as I detailed in my 2013 post.
The 6th and Grand Starbucks is also where Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland) tried to talk to Walter King (Robert Patrick Benedict) in the Season 1 episode of Touch titled “Safety in Numbers,” which aired in 2012.
Recently, Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector), Brad Coniff (David Marciano), and Detective Julie Espinosa (Jacqueline Pinol) grabbed coffee there and discussed a case in the Season 6 episode of Bosch titled “Good People on Both Sides.”
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Stalk It: The Starbucks from the “No One’s Gonna Harm You, Not While I’m Around” episode of The Morning Show is located at 523 West 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles.