Queen Anne, SeattleMade in HollywoodNBC 1993–2004
On air
A Seattle show, ordered by the cup. The lines are open.
Four lines lit. Pick one up.
A psychiatrist turned radio host, his brother, their father, a dog, and the Space Needle in the living-room window. Eleven seasons set in Seattle, made on a stage in Hollywood. Here is where the real Seattle comes in, and where you can go.
Kelsey Grammer plays Frasier and David Hyde Pierce plays Niles; the 1997 shoot was the cast’s first time on location in Seattle.
Seattle Times: “Frasier” meets the real Seattle (Chuck Taylor, 9 September 1997)
Frasier was made on the Paramount lot in Hollywood and had never filmed in the Northwest before 1997.
Seattle Times: Seattle’s a bit player (Chuck Taylor, 27 April 1997)
John Mahoney starred in Frasier; Steppenwolf gives his dates as June 1940 to February 2018.
Café Nervosa · the counter
The episode “Ham Radio” opens at Café Nervosa, the show’s coffee house, with Frasier ordering at the bar. The writers were developing the show just as Seattle’s coffee boom was being written about. The café was a set; the coffee was the most Seattle thing about the show. Order the way the brothers would. Each word on the cup opens somewhere you can actually go.
Your order, read back, appears here.
Nothing on the cup yet.
Nothing ordered yet · Paramount, Hollywood
The episode “Ham Radio” opens at Café Nervosa, the show’s coffee house, with Frasier ordering at the bar. The writers were developing the show just as Seattle’s coffee boom was being written about.
A working studio, seen only on a guided tour: two hours, daily, $71.
Paramount Pictures, Hollywood · 1,543 km from Queen Anne Hill
Frasier lives in an immaculate Queen Anne apartment that looks over the Space Needle and downtown. Pull it aside.
The view from the living room: the Needle, downtown, the bay.
Frasier was made on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, in a dark soundstage that had also housed The Lucy Show and Cheers. Until 1997 the show had never filmed on location in the Northwest.
A working studio, seen only on a guided tour: two hours, daily, $71.
Melrose Avenue, Hollywood · 2 hours, daily · $71
A guided walk round the lot where Frasier was made for eleven years, soundstages included.
Book the tourKerry Park looks over Elliott Bay and the city centre, sometimes with Mount Rainier behind; after dark the ferries cross the bay and the Needle is lit on its 500-foot pedestal.
Free, 6am–10pm. Come at dusk for the lights.
Seattle · shot 8–10 September 1997 · on air 11 November
For its 100th episode, Frasier’s 1,000th broadcast on his fictional station, the show finally filmed in the city it was named for. Downtown first, then the monorail, then the Needle.
Stop 1 of 4: Westlake Park.
Stop 1 · 401 Pine Street, downtown
Seattle’s mayor, Norm Rice, is due to proclaim “Frasier” Day in Westlake Park at noon on 11 September 1997, and plays himself in the episode.
The city calls it, unofficially, Seattle’s town square, a short walk from Pike Place Market.
Free, 6am–10pm. Buskers, table tennis and summer concerts.
As themselves
Kelsey Grammer
Frasier Crane
Emmy winner as lead actor in 1998 and again in 2004; Frasier again in the 2023 revival.
David Hyde Pierce
Niles Crane
Emmy winner as supporting actor in 2004; first on location in Seattle with Grammer in 1997.
Jane Leeves
Daphne Moon
Emmy nominee as supporting actress in 1998.
John Mahoney
Martin Crane
Emmy nominee as supporting actor in 2003. Mahoney died in February 2018.
Eddie, the Jack Russell terrier who drove Frasier crazy for ten years, was played by a dog called Moose. Moose died in 2006, aged 16, at his trainer Mathilde Halberg’s home in Los Angeles.
Eddie is staring at you. Hold the button to stare back.
The Belltown park where the 100th episode’s chase was shot, Regrade Park at Third and Bell, is now a fenced off-leash area for dogs.
Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) and David Hyde Pierce (Niles) were on location on 8 September 1997; the rest of the cast followed the next day.
Seattle Times: “Frasier” meets the real Seattle (Chuck Taylor, 9 September 1997)
Television Academy: Kelsey Grammer, as Frasier Crane, won lead actor in a comedy in 1998 and 2004; David Hyde Pierce, as Niles Crane, won supporting actor in 2004; Jane Leeves, as Daphne Moon, was nominated in 1998; John Mahoney, as Martin Crane, was nominated in 2003.
John Mahoney starred in Frasier; his dates are June 1940 to February 2018.
Eddie was played by Moose, a 16-year-old Jack Russell terrier who died at trainer Mathilde Halberg’s Los Angeles home; he drove Kelsey Grammer’s character crazy for ten years.
Deseret News (AP): Eddie from “Frasier” dies of old age at 16 (28 June 2006)
Regrade Park, 2251 Third Avenue, is one of Seattle’s fenced off-leash areas, 0.3 acres at Third and Bell.
Paramount+ · 2023–2024
Frasier returns to Boston, near his firefighter son Freddy, and takes a teaching job at Harvard. Harvard’s free Historical Tour is student-led, for up to 10 people, and booked through Eventbrite; the Visit Harvard app has a self-guided walk round the Yard.
Free student-led history tours for up to 10 (book on Eventbrite), or the free Visit Harvard app.
Cambridge, Massachusetts · Free · book on Eventbrite
Student-led, for up to ten people, round the Yard where Professor Crane would teach. Or take the self-guided tour on the free Visit Harvard app.
Visit Harvard
Chicago · 1,362 km from Harvard Yard
In the revival Frasier drinks at a neighbourhood bar named Mahoney’s, after John Mahoney, who died in 2018. His other home was a theatre. John Mahoney, who played Martin Crane, joined Steppenwolf’s ensemble at the end of the 1970s and appeared in more than 30 of its productions. He won a Tony Award for The House of Blue Leaves. Steppenwolf gives his dates as June 1940 to February 2018.
On now: Topdog/Underdog to 1 November; Adirondack Chair Circle, a world premiere, 22 October–6 December 2026.
In January 2025 Paramount+ ended the revival after two seasons; CBS Studios said it would offer the show to other platforms. Season two took Frasier back to Seattle.
TVLine: Frasier cancelled after two seasons at Paramount+ (Dave Nemetz, 17 January 2025)
The revival’s first season has 10 episodes and began on Paramount+ on 12 October 2023.
Boston Globe: Everything we know about the new “Frasier” (18 September 2023)
The whole order
11 places you can visit, in Seattle, Hollywood, Boston and Chicago. Paramount is a working studio, seen on its tour. Frasier’s apartment building and Café Nervosa were sets, so there is nothing to pin.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Free, 6am–10pm. Come at dusk for the lights.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open every day, from 9am at weekends and 10.30am early in the week; general admission $35–55.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. $4 one way for adults, $2 for 6–18s, under-5s free. Trains 7.30am (8.30am weekends) to 11pm.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The monorail’s downtown station is here, with ticket machines (card and contactless only).
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Free, 6am–10pm. Buskers, table tennis and summer concerts.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Produce and seafood from 7am; most of it busy 10am–5pm.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open every day from 10 or 10.30am; general admission $40–45, under-4s free.
211 West Highland Drive, Queen Anne Hill
Frasier’s apartment is on Queen Anne, and it overlooks the Space Needle and downtown.
Free, 6am–10pm. Come at dusk for the lights.
400 Broad Street, Seattle Center
In the 100th episode Frasier rides the monorail to an event at the Space Needle, where Seattle’s real mayor, Norm Rice, presides.
Open every day, from 9am at weekends and 10.30am early in the week; general admission $35–55.
Seattle Center station, beside the Space Needle
Frasier boards the Seattle Center Monorail on his way to the Space Needle in the 100th episode.
$4 one way for adults, $2 for 6–18s, under-5s free. Trains 7.30am (8.30am weekends) to 11pm.
400 Pine Street, downtown
In the 100th episode a pack of Girl Scouts chases Frasier to Westlake Center.
The monorail’s downtown station is here, with ticket machines (card and contactless only).
401 Pine Street, downtown
Mayor Norm Rice was due to proclaim “Frasier” Day here at noon on Thursday 11 September 1997. He plays himself in the episode.
Free, 6am–10pm. Buskers, table tennis and summer concerts.
85 Pike Street
On the brothers’ walk to the rally in the 100th episode, Niles spills coffee on Frasier’s shoes at Pike Place Market.
Every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Produce and seafood from 7am; most of it busy 10am–5pm.
305 Harrison Street, Seattle Center
By the 100th episode, Frasier’s apartment has a Chihuly bowl in it.
Open every day from 10 or 10.30am; general admission $40–45, under-4s free.
Stay
A 1918 building at the foot of the hill, a walk from the view and the Needle.
600 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle
Not a filming location: a 1918 building, first the Seattle Engineering School, at the foot of Queen Anne Hill. Walk up to Kerry Park for the view, or across to Seattle Center for the Needle.
Check roomsGo there
The Needle, the monorail, Chihuly, the Paramount tour and Harvard’s free walk.
400 Broad Street, Seattle · General admission $35–55 · open daily
The tower in the apartment window, and the end of the 100th episode’s ride. The Loupe Level bar sits on the rotating glass floor.
Plan a visitWestlake Center and Seattle Center · $4 one way · $2 youth · under-5s free
Westlake Center to Seattle Center in about two minutes, as Frasier did for the 100th episode. Card and contactless at the machines, or a mobile ticket.
Fares and hours305 Harrison Street, Seattle · General admission $40–45 · Needle combo $74
Eight galleries, the Glasshouse and a garden beside the Needle. Frasier’s apartment had a Chihuly bowl by 1997.
Plan a visitMelrose Avenue, Hollywood · 2 hours, daily · $71
A guided walk round the lot where Frasier was made for eleven years, soundstages included.
Book the tourCambridge, Massachusetts · Free · book on Eventbrite
Student-led, for up to ten people, round the Yard where Professor Crane would teach. Or take the self-guided tour on the free Visit Harvard app.
Visit HarvardSeattle
Live marketplace results for Seattle city tours that take in Kerry Park, the market and the Needle. Check each itinerary for the stops you want.
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Steppenwolf’s autumn, at the theatre where he was an ensemble member for almost forty years.
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Take it home
Grammer’s memoir, Eddie’s “autobiography” and an unofficial guide.
Kelsey Grammer
Grammer’s memoir, published by Dutton in 1995, two years into Frasier.
Find the bookMoose, with Brian Hargrove
Eddie’s “autobiography”, written for him by Brian Hargrove; HarperEntertainment, 2000.
Find the bookDavid Bailey
An unofficial guide to the show, published by Virgin in 1998.
Find the bookDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
The MarQueen Hotel, 600 Queen Anne Avenue North, was built in 1918 as the Seattle Engineering School.
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211 West Highland Drive, Queen Anne Hill
Frasier lives in an immaculate Queen Anne apartment that looks over the Space Needle and downtown.
400 Broad Street, Seattle Center
Seattle Center station, beside the Space Needle
Frasier boards the monorail to an event at the Space Needle, where the real mayor presides.
400 Pine Street, downtown
For the 100th episode, Girl Scouts chase Frasier to Westlake Center. The chase was shot in Belltown’s Regrade Park on 8 September 1997, with Bremerton Girl Scouts cast as schoolgirls.
401 Pine Street, downtown
Seattle’s mayor, Norm Rice, is due to proclaim “Frasier” Day in Westlake Park at noon on 11 September 1997, and plays himself in the episode.
85 Pike Street
Walking to the rally, Niles spills coffee on Frasier’s shoes at Pike Place Market.
305 Harrison Street, Seattle Center
The cast meets Dale Chihuly at his Lake Union studio during the shoot, and the apartment set gains a Chihuly bowl.
Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
The episode “Ham Radio” opens at Café Nervosa, the show’s coffee house, with Frasier ordering at the bar. The writers were developing the show just as Seattle’s coffee boom was being written about.
The apartment’s view of the Needle and downtown is an enormous photographic transparency, hung outside the set’s windows on a soundstage in Hollywood.
Harvard University, Cambridge
Frasier returns to Boston, near his firefighter son Freddy, and takes a teaching job at Harvard.
Over the Charles River, between Charlestown and the West End
The revival’s first teaser turns the original series’ Seattle skyline into Boston’s, with the Zakim Bridge.
1650 North Halsted Street, Lincoln Park
In the revival Frasier drinks at a neighbourhood bar named Mahoney’s, after John Mahoney, who died in 2018.
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