Breath: breathe into a bedroom built inside a freezer, brush a demon out of the Iraqi sand, and walk the Georgetown steps nobody counts the same way twice.
filmBreath: breathe into a bedroom built inside a freezer, brush a demon out of the Iraqi sand, and walk the Georgetown steps nobody counts the same way twice.
6 places in Washington, DCG. Edward Johnson · CC BY 4.0 · Display-cropped · City context photograph
6 places · 6 mapped locations
The film’s climax was shot here, on the stone stairway beside the old Capital Traction Company station.
A public stairway, open at all hours. Come down from Prospect Street, or up from M Street near Key Bridge. The steps are steep and narrow: hold the rail, especially after dark.
The Capital Traction Company built its streetcar terminal and car barn here in 1895–97.
See it from M Street, and from the steps that run down its west wall.
Scenes were shot on and near the campus in October and November 1972. The studio paid the university $1,000 a day.
A working university. See Healy Hall from the front lawn and the gates; its rooms are for students and staff.
Dahlgren Chapel is on the university archive’s list of campus places seen in the film.
The university chapel. See it from the quadrangle; services are the university’s own.
The steps of Lauinger Library are among the campus places seen in the film.
The university library. See the steps from Library Walk.
Historic private-house exterior beside stairs; no public entry asserted.
Confirm current access with the venue. Source documentation does not establish present visitor access.
Prospect Street, Washington, DC · Source-recorded site-centre position, pending geography review. Not a surveyed filming viewpoint or confirmation of current access.
Breath: breathe into a bedroom built inside a freezer, brush a demon out of the Iraqi sand, and walk the Georgetown steps nobody counts the same way twice.
City photograph: G. Edward Johnson · CC BY 4.0 · Display-cropped for this layout.
