Where was The Umbrella Academy filmed
The Umbrella Academy
Year: 2019
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
<p>The Umbrella Academy was filmed in Toronto, Hamilton, Oshawa, & Mississauga in Canada.</p>
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1 Hotel Toronto
In movie
Scene where Number Five visit the company that manufactured the prosthetic eye he found in the future but is turned away without the information he needs in episode 1x02 “Run Boy Run”.
Real
Scene was shot 1 Hotel Toronto is a 95-room boutique hotel with a rooftop lounge and attached condominiums originally opened in 2009 as part of the Thompson Hotel chain. It was designed by Architects–Alliance. In 2019 the hotel began a year-long conversion to become part of the sustainable 1 Hotel chain.
21 Don Roadway
In movie
Scene where
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Scene was shot The former home to a Lever Brothers factory dating back to 1892, this facility shut down and changed hands several times in the late 2000s and is now at the center of the large office and retail redevelopment.
234 Queen Street East
In movie
Scene where Vanya is walking home when she sees a news report on her father's death on a TV in the window of the shop beneath her apartment in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”. Vanya is walking home with Leonard when Allison arrives and he recognizes her in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
Allan Gardens
In movie
Scene where Allison and Luther take a walk in the park and then finally dance together in episode 1x06 “The Day That Wasn't”.
Real
Scene was shot Allan Gardens began its life as gardens and a conservatory established by the Toronto Horticultural Society in 1860 and transferred fully to the city on 1888. The park houses a conservatory known as the Palm House consisting of six green houses built in 1910 after the older Horticultural Pavilion was destroyed in a fire.
Canary Restaurant
In movie
Scene where Vanya has her author portrait taken for her new book in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”.
Real
Scene was shot The Place Street School opened in 1859 designed by architect Joseph Sheard to teach about 180 students. The building was sold after the school's closure in 1887 and became a hotel that went by several names including Irvine House, Cherry Street Hotel, and Eastern Star Hotel. When these various hotels failed the building stood vacant from 1910–22 when it was converted for industrial uses.The Canary Restaurant began operation on the ground floor of the building in 1965 and retained its 60s-era decor until its closure in 2007 due to a drop in traffic caused by development in the area.
David Dunlap Observatory
In movie
Scene where The Handler takes Number Five to the headquarters of the Commission and shows him through the operation in episode 1x06 “The Day That Wasn't”.
Real
Scene was shot David Dunlap Observatory was constructed by the University of Toronto in 1935 and operated by them until 2008 when it was sold to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and then resold in 2018 to the City of Richmond Hill for historical preservation. The main observatory consists of a 74-inch telescope, the second largest in North America at the time of its installation. Atop the nearby administration build are three additional domes that have housed various telescopes over the years. Light pollution from the growing development around the site and the relatively small size of the telescope eventually reduced its scientific usefulness.
Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre
In movie
Scene where Vanya practices her violin on stage in an ornate theatre in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”. Vanya performs her solo in front of a sold-out theater and her siblings arrive to try and stop her from destroying the world in episode 1x10 “The White Violin”.
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Scene was shot The Elgin and Winter Garden theatres are the last surviving stacked Edwardian theatres in the world. The theatres opened in 1913 as the flagship venue of Marcus Loew's theatre chain and were designed by Thomas W. Lamb. The ground-level Elgin Theatre is decorated in gold and marble with a domed roof while seven storeys above is the Winter Garden Theatre covered in plant murals, garden trellises, and columns designed like tree trunks. The upper theatre was closed in 1928 as the lower theatre was converted to show talkies, and the upper theatre remained closed until the building was acquired by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1981.
Hanscom & Associates
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Scene was shot 1 Hotel Toronto is a 95-room boutique hotel with a rooftop lounge and attached condominiums originally opened in 2009 as part of the Thompson Hotel chain. It was designed by Architects–Alliance. In 2019 the hotel began a year-long conversion to become part of the sustainable 1 Hotel chain.
Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories (U of T)
In movie
Scene where Klaus and Number Five exit the building after their operation and Klaus tries to talk to Five but Five teleports away in episode 1x02 “Run Boy Run”. Number Five stakes out the prosthetics company the whole day and eventually sees the doctor handing off a suspicious duffle bag in exchange for cash in episode 1x03 “Extra Ordinary”. Diego and Luther find a clue inside Number Five's van and later Five arrives to find the lab building in flames in episode 1x04 “Man on the Moon”.
Liuna Station
In movie
Scene where A group of bank robbers are thwarted by the six young members of the Umbrella Academy on their first mission and then Sir Reginald Hargreeves gives a press conference announcing them to the world in episode 1x01 “We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals”.
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Scene was shot Luina Station was constructed as the CN Railway James Street Station in 1931 and designed by architect John Schofield. It closed in 1993 when remaining train service was moved to the nearby Hamilton GO Centre and reopened as an events centre owned by the Laborers' International Union of North America in 2000.