The first episode needed Washington. The crew found an art college in Baltimore, put a fake metal detector in its doorway, and filmed the steps.
Washington, D.C.? Walk through and see.
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Eight scenes from Veep are waiting at the arch. Each one looks like Washington. Wave it through if you think it was really shot there, pull it aside if it is a stand-in, and the arch will tell you where it was.
Tray 1 · The pilotWashington?
A grand marble entrance, with security at the doorThe pilot
Scene 1 of 8. Washington or not?
Seasons 1–4 · Maryland
For four seasons Veep was made in Maryland: sets in a warehouse in Columbia, streets and rooms in Baltimore, 45 km (30 miles) from the White House as the crow flies.
Front: a black-and-white tiled corridor like the EEOB’s, with the cast and the Governor’s party on 18 November 2013.
Columbia, Howard County, Maryland
The sets were built on a soundstage made from an industrial warehouse in Columbia, Maryland. They included replicas of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the West Wing.
Maryland’s governor, Martin O’Malley, toured the set in Columbia on 18 November 2013.
Baltimore Magazine calls the Columbia soundstages the show’s home base for its four Maryland years.
A private industrial building with no published address, so it is not on the map. The show left Maryland in 2015.
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue, Bolton Hill, Baltimore
A scene in the pilot was filmed outside MICA’s Main Building. Its white marble steps stood in for Washington, and the crew put a fake metal detector in the entrance.
The Main Building, by Pell and Corbett, dates from 1908.
MICA was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.
A working art college. See the marble front and its steps from Mount Royal Avenue.
1 East Chase Street at North Charles Street, Mount Vernon, Baltimore
The Belvedere was the backdrop for a law-enforcement retirement party, with retired local officers among the extras.
By the end of the run Baltimore Magazine counted it among the spots the show would often film, with the Wharf Rat and Bond Street Social.
Parker and Thomas of Boston designed it; it was built in 1902–1903 and became condominiums in 1991.
Condominiums since 1991, with some areas still open to the public. The front faces East Chase Street.
2549 North Howard Street, Charles Village, Baltimore
About 200 people were filmed here for a scene the casting director Pat Moran called big and funny.
The Ottobar opened in 1997, named after a cat called Otto, and moved to North Howard Street in November 2001.
A working music venue. Its own listings give shows and age limits.
Dillon Street, Canton, Baltimore
Baltimore Magazine lists a Dillon Street row home in Canton among the show’s first filming locations.
A private house: named by its street only and kept off the map. Canton’s streets are public.
Baltimore
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Compare tours12 April 2013 · The West Wing
In April 2013, between the first and second seasons, the actress who played the Vice President sat at the Vice President’s desk. The man leaning over it is Joe Biden.
On 12 April 2013 the White House photographer Lawrence Jackson photographed the real Vice President, Joe Biden, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in his West Wing office.
The writers visited the White House and photographed it; the decorator Kimberly Wannop says she has never been inside.
Tours are free and run on weekday and Saturday mornings; requests go through your Member of Congress.
Public tours are free, requested through a Member of Congress 7 to 90 days ahead. Otherwise, see it from Pennsylvania Avenue.
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How to request a tourThe crew did come to Washington: twice in October 2011, and for part of the fifth season in 2016. Five more places, in the order you would walk and ride them.
Constitution Avenue NW between 12th and 14th Streets, Washington
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 the DC Film Office’s alerts had the show filming on Constitution Avenue NW between 12th and 14th Streets until 11pm.
The same afternoon Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot on the Meet the Press set at NBC’s Washington studio.
The National Museum of American History stands at 1300 Constitution Avenue NW.
A public avenue. The National Museum of American History is at No. 1300, on this stretch.
17th Street NW at Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington
It houses the Office of the Vice President. The Secretary of the Navy’s old office, restored in 1987, is the Vice President’s ceremonial office, used for special meetings and press conferences.
The decorators based Selina’s Vice President’s office on the EEOB, and the set had to be rebuilt for the final episode.
It was built between 1871 and 1888 for the State, War and Navy departments, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Part of the White House complex and not open for casual visits. See the granite front from 17th Street NW.
1001 14th Street NW, Washington
The hotel’s VEEP Suite has original furniture, props and memorabilia from the run: brownstone pieces such as Selina’s bar cabinet, console table and writing table, and a framed Smith College diploma.
When the show wrapped, HBO partnered with a Washington hotel for a Veep suite, and original set dressing went there.
A working hotel. The suite is booked like a room, through the hotel’s own page.
1517 Connecticut Avenue NW, Dupont Circle, Washington
In a fifth-season episode President Meyer and Charlie Baird go to a bookshop for a holiday photo-op. Kramers is the outside; the inside is Skylight Books in Los Angeles.
Part of the fifth season was filmed in Washington in February and March 2016, Kramerbooks among the places.
It opened in August 1976 and was one of the first bookshops in the country with a café.
An independent bookshop and café. Walk in.
U.S. Naval Observatory, Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington
On Saturday 29 October 2011 the show did driving shoots round Washington, including near the Vice President’s residence at Observatory Circle.
The house was built in 1893 for the observatory’s superintendent and became the Vice President’s official residence in 1974. Walter Mondale was the first to move in.
Behind the Naval Observatory’s security fence and not open to visitors.
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In June 2015 HBO took the show to southern California on a tax credit. Armando Iannucci had stepped down after the fourth season, and Los Angeles started playing Washington.
Maryland: MICA’s Main Building, The Belvedere, The Ottobar, The stage in Columbia.
Maryland: four years; filming in Columbia, Baltimore and Sykesville; $13.9 million in tax credits over three seasons; 3,069 residents hired and 2,882 businesses used. California: a $6.5 million credit, production in southern California.
Iannucci stepped down after the fourth season and David Mandel took over; part of the fifth season was filmed in Washington in February and March 2016.
1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles
Only its inside appears, as the Washington bookshop of the fifth-season photo-op: light wood shelves, brickwork and the branches of its ficus.
Skylight opened on 1 November 1996 and is known for the 20-foot ficus tree growing inside.
An independent bookshop with author evenings. Walk in.
199 North Second Avenue, Arcadia, Los Angeles County
In the fifth-season premiere Jonah Ryan tries to check into a crowded hotel during the Nevada recount. The scene was filmed here; the curtains behind him are the hotel’s.
The Carson City outsides in that episode are other buildings: the Carson City Plaza Hotel and a strip mall opposite.
A working hotel; its lobby is open to guests and visitors.
University Park, Los Angeles
The final episode’s convention mixes filming at USC and in downtown Los Angeles with real convention footage from Charlotte.
The skybox was meant to be a location and became a build instead, dressed three different ways; two of them are in the episode.
The decorators made custom drapery for the campaign suite’s windows and rented its furniture inside about a week.
An open university campus. No single building is named for the scenes.
The final episode
The convention skybox was meant to be a real room. It became a set instead, built once and dressed three different ways; two of those dressings are in the episode.
First dressing: same walls, same window, new dressing. Three dressings, two on screen.
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Armando Iannucci had made The Thick of It for the BBC, and an American pilot of it had not been picked up. HBO commissioned Veep instead; Iannucci wrote the pilot with Simon Blackwell and ran the show for four seasons, then David Mandel took over for the last three. Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Selina Meyer, a former senator from Maryland who becomes Vice President and then President, with Anna Chlumsky as Amy, Tony Hale as Gary, her body man, and Timothy Simons as Jonah.
Louis-Dreyfus won the Emmy for lead actress in a comedy six times in a row, Hale won twice, and the show won Outstanding Comedy Series for its fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. In February 2016 the crew filmed in Spring Valley, the Washington neighbourhood where Louis-Dreyfus grew up.
Creator, the ABC pilot, the pilot co-written with Simon Blackwell, Iannucci’s exit after season four and David Mandel’s arrival, characters, Emmy counts and Outstanding Comedy Series wins.
Filming in Spring Valley, where Julia Louis-Dreyfus grew up, on 28 February 2016.
12 places you can visit: 3 in Baltimore, 6 in Washington and 3 in Los Angeles. The Dillon Street row home is private and the Columbia stage has no published address, so both are named here and left off the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working art college. See the marble front and its steps from Mount Royal Avenue.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Condominiums since 1991, with some areas still open to the public. The front faces East Chase Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working music venue. Its own listings give shows and age limits.
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue, Bolton Hill, Baltimore
A scene in the pilot was filmed outside MICA’s Main Building. Its white marble steps stood in for Washington, and the crew put a fake metal detector in the entrance.
A working art college. See the marble front and its steps from Mount Royal Avenue.
1 East Chase Street at North Charles Street, Mount Vernon, Baltimore
The Belvedere was the backdrop for a law-enforcement retirement party, with retired local officers among the extras.
Condominiums since 1991, with some areas still open to the public. The front faces East Chase Street.
2549 North Howard Street, Charles Village, Baltimore
About 200 people were filmed here for a scene the casting director Pat Moran called big and funny.
A working music venue. Its own listings give shows and age limits.
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The hotel suite on 14th Street NW that took the brownstone’s pieces.
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A suite on 14th Street NW furnished with original pieces from the show: Selina’s brownstone bar cabinet, console table and writing table, a framed Smith College diploma, family photographs and a Vice-Presidential china plate.
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Take it home
The memoir credited to Selina Meyer.
Selina Meyer · Abrams
The tie-in memoir credited to Selina Meyer herself, from Abrams: Selina’s own account, with every claim hers.
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1300 West Mount Royal Avenue, Bolton Hill, Baltimore
The pilot dresses MICA’s entrance with a fake metal detector and lets its marble steps play Washington.
1 East Chase Street at North Charles Street, Mount Vernon, Baltimore
A law-enforcement retirement party at the Belvedere, with retired Baltimore officers as extras.
2549 North Howard Street, Charles Village, Baltimore
A scene with about 200 people at the Ottobar.
Dillon Street, Canton, Baltimore
A row home on Dillon Street in Canton is one of the early locations.
Columbia, Howard County, Maryland
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the West Wing are rebuilt inside a warehouse in Columbia, Maryland.
Constitution Avenue NW between 12th and 14th Streets, Washington
The production films on Constitution Avenue NW between 12th and 14th Streets.
17th Street NW at Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington
Selina’s office is the Vice President’s office in the EEOB; the set was built on its look.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington
Julia Louis-Dreyfus sits at the real Vice President’s desk in the West Wing, with Joe Biden beside her.
U.S. Naval Observatory, Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington
Driving shoots round Washington pass near the Vice President’s residence.
1517 Connecticut Avenue NW, Dupont Circle, Washington
President Meyer’s holiday photo-op: the bookshop’s outside is Kramers in Dupont Circle.
1001 14th Street NW, Washington
Selina’s brownstone furniture and props go to a Washington hotel suite when the show ends.
1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles
The inside of the photo-op bookshop is Skylight Books in Los Feliz.
199 North Second Avenue, Arcadia, Los Angeles County
Jonah tries to check into a Carson City hotel during the recount; the lobby is in Arcadia.
University Park, Los Angeles
The final episode’s convention is filmed at USC and downtown, cut with real footage from Charlotte.
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