The Little Fires Everywhere House: Filming Locations Guide

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The Hulu drama Little Fires Everywhere, now back for the second season, is an adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by American writer Celeste Ng.

The story takes place in the Midwestern town of Shaker Heights, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), but none of the episodes were filmed there.

Actresses Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington

The plot revolves around the intriguing secrets of two mothers and their families (Reese Witherspoon as Elena Richardson and Kerry Washington as Mia Warren).

Joshua Jackson, Lexi Underwood, Megan Stott, Gavin Lewis, Jordan Elsass, and Rosemarie DeWitt complete the main cast. The series is a flashback discerning all the causes that led to Elena's household literally burning down.

The first three episodes of the eight-part series were released a day earlier than planned to provide subscribers with a larger streaming repertoire.

Little Fires Everywhere was filmed in and around the city of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Monrovia in California. We will be updating and expanding this spoiler-free report as new filming locations are revealed:

Little Fires Everywhere house The exteriors of the Richardson house were filmed in a Tudor revival style home at 511 South Muirfield Road in Hancock Park (Los Angeles).

This exclusive residential neighborhood features many stylish mansions constructed in the 1920s. You may experience a déjà vu watching the series; This 8-bedroom, 6-bath and 7,426-square-foot property has already been featured multiple times in both cinema and TV shows.

The 1977 ABC series Soap, the 1982 horror movie One Dark Night, and episodes of the series Shameless (2012), Grace and Frankie (2015), Love, The Last Tycoon (2017), and The Unicorn (2020) were filmed here.
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Interior living room
However, all the interior was filmed on a soundstage in Los Angeles.

The designers dressed all the rooms of the manor with furniture and decor from the ’90s.

The scene of the house engulfed in flames was filmed on a studio burn stage. The crew created a smaller metal framework of the mansion enhanced with some CGI trickery.

Where was Little Fires Everywhere filmed?

Warrens household
According to Cleveland.com, the Warrens duplex was filmed in Pasadena.

This property is not as luxurious as The Kissing Booth house, which features an internal swimming pool.


The city streets set in Shaker Heights
The production designer and the location manager made a scouting trip to Shaker Heights in Ohio.

They aimed to recreate the style of the town and the houses there to find the most suitable locations for shooting in California.

The street outdoor scenes in the town were recorded in downtown Monrovia. Pictured, a screenshot from episode one filmed in S Myrtle Avenue, in front of the Studio Movie Grill cinema.
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Concert Hall
The hall where the Cleveland Youth Symphonic Orchestra plays on the first episode is Pasadena's Civic Auditorium.

This beautiful venue concert theater is a historic Italian Renaissance revival style building, constructed in 1931.
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Secondary school
The East Shaker High School was filmed in the University of California's Kaplan Hall, located in the Westwood UCLA campus in Los Angeles.
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