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A busy city avenue with shop fronts and a rail overpass in 1948
Dorchester Avenue at Fields Corner looking south, 25 March 1948 (City of Boston Archives). An earlier view of the same junction. City of Boston Archives · CC BY 2.0

Miramax · 2007 · Dorchester and South Boston

Gone Baby Gone

The film is set in Dorchester. Slate’s reviewer put its Dorchester scenes around Fields Corner, shown here in 1948. Wikipedia says the shoot was mainly South Boston. Seven windows below; raise a blind to see the place behind it.

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Two neighbourhoods

Set in one, shot in the next

The story stays in Dorchester. The cameras spent most of their time a few miles away, with local people as extras.

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On screen · Dorchester

Fields Corner

The film is set in Dorchester: two Boston private investigators search for a girl taken from her single mother’s apartment there.

Slate’s reviewer wrote that the Dorchester scenes were shot around Fields Corner and along Dorchester Avenue, which locals call Dot Ave.

He also noted the film’s exteriors of three-decker apartment buildings, and praised its regional accents.

His complaint: no Vietnamese residents or shops appear, though Fields Corner has a growing Vietnamese community.

A busy shopping junction on Dorchester Avenue with a Red Line station. Walk the street; the photograph is the junction in 1948.

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On the shoot · South Boston

A city avenue with housing blocks and trees seen from a footbridge
Old Colony Avenue, South Boston, looking south from a footbridge. Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0

Old Colony

The film was shot mainly in South Boston, Wikipedia says, with local residents as extras.

A fan list of locations names Old Colony, South Boston, among the sites used. Wikipedia places Old Colony in South Boston: 16.7 acres, built in 1940 as 22 three-storey brick buildings with 873 low-income units.

It is being rebuilt in phases. The first replaced 164 units with 116 townhouses between late 2010 and March 2012.

A housing development with residents’ homes. It is not pinned and no building is named; the photograph shows Old Colony Avenue from a footbridge.

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Raise the blind

Seven windows

One three-decker front, one place behind each window. Choose a window to roll its blind up and read what the sources say.

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0 of 7 blinds up · 0 in the neighbourhoods · 0 beyond

Seven windows, seven blinds down. Choose one.

Every blind is down.

The film is a story of closed doors in one neighbourhood. The places behind these windows are public streets, parks and a cemetery.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge

The garden cemetery listed for the film’s funeral scenes. Its visit page gives hours and visitor rules; the grounds are open by day. Pictured: October 2014.

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Where it is now

Go and look up

Fields Corner, Moakley Park, the Lindemann plaza, the quarries, the cemetery and Hormel Stadium are public. Old Colony is a housing development where people live; it is named by its street and not pinned.

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Where it is now

6 places you can visit around Boston, plus one housing development named by its street.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A busy shopping junction on Dorchester Avenue with a Red Line station. Walk the street; the photograph is the junction in 1948.

  • Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A 60-acre public park on the South Boston shore, open to walk. Fields and a track are used for local sport.

  1. A busy city avenue with shop fronts and a rail overpass in 1948
    Dorchester Avenue at Fields Corner looking south, 25 March 1948 (City of Boston Archives). An earlier view of the same junction. City of Boston Archives · CC BY 2.0

    Dorchester and South Boston · Fields Corner, Dorchester, Boston

    Fields Corner

    The film is set in Dorchester: two Boston private investigators search for a girl taken from her single mother’s apartment there.

    A busy shopping junction on Dorchester Avenue with a Red Line station. Walk the street; the photograph is the junction in 1948.

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  2. Playing fields and trees at a waterfront park
    Joe Moakley Park, South Boston, 2013. Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Dorchester and South Boston · Day Boulevard, South Boston

    Joe Moakley Park

    A fan list of locations names Moakley Park among the sites used.

    A 60-acre public park on the South Boston shore, open to walk. Fields and a track are used for local sport.

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Stay

A room downtown.

A boutique hotel in Beacon Hill, a base for the Boston places.

Beacon Hill Hotel

Beacon Hill Hotel

Beacon Hill, Boston

A boutique hotel at 25 Charles Street in a renovated 19th-century building, in Beacon Hill near downtown Boston. Pictured: the Government Service Center, 2014.

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Go there

Walk it.

The cemetery’s visit page, and live tours of Boston.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge

The garden cemetery listed for the film’s funeral scenes. Its visit page gives hours and visitor rules; the grounds are open by day. Pictured: October 2014.

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What’s on

No dates yet.

Nothing dated for the film is listed at these places now.

No current dated events are listed. Check providers for the latest programme.

Dates, 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 archive

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

7 of 7 places · 7 of 7 stories

  • Fields Corner

    Fields Corner, Dorchester, Boston

    • Dorchester, set and shot

      The film is set in Dorchester; its Dorchester scenes were shot around Fields Corner and Dot Ave.

  • Old Colony

    Old Colony, South Boston

    • Southie as the main set

      Filming took place on location in Boston, mainly South Boston, with local passers-by as extras.

  • Joe Moakley Park

    Day Boulevard, South Boston

    • The park by the shore

      A fan list names Moakley Park as a location.

  • Lindemann Building

    25 Staniford Street, West End, Boston

    • The concrete offices

      The Lindemann Building is listed as a filming location.

  • Quincy Quarries

    Quincy Quarries Reservation, Quincy

    • The old quarry

      The film was shot at the Quincy Quarries.

  • Mount Auburn Cemetery

    580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge

    • The funeral scenes

      A fan list gives Mount Auburn Cemetery as the site of funeral scenes.

  • Hormel Stadium

    Locust Street, Medford

    • The stadium

      A fan list names Hormel Stadium among production sites.

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