The Nicholas Sparks tear-jerker The Notebook has some great old houses to look at: Allie’s, Noah’s, and the old plantation house that served as the nursing home.
Let’s take a closer look at all three.
2019 UPDATE: I wrote a new post about Noah’s plantation house from this movie with more photos and information that you can see here.
Note: This post has Amazon affiliate links that may earn me commission.
Filming Locations for “The Notebook”
Allie’s Family’s Summer House
Boone Hall Plantation served as Allie’s family’s summer home. The antebellum mansion is located in South Carolina near Charleston and has the distinction of being one of America’s oldest working plantations, growing and producing crops for over 320 years. The house itself dates to the early 20th century.
We don’t see them in the movie, but there are 9 original slave cabins
still standing on the property, dating back to the 1700s:
The plantation is open to tourists who can see what life was like for its residents in the 1800s. According to their website:
In 1743, the son of Major John Boone planted live oak trees, arranging them in two evenly spaced rows. It would take two centuries for the massive, moss-draped branches to meet overhead.
Rumor has it that a photo was taken of the nearly mile-long “Avenue of Oaks,” as it is known, by film location scouts back in the 1930s and used as inspiration for Twelve Oaks in Gone With the Wind.
Photos of the house taken during production (via DVD special features):
The interiors were shot at Calhoun Manor in Charleston.
Noah (Ryan Gosling) is a poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks, and Allie (Rachael McAdams) has parents who, according to one of the characters, are “richer than God.” The parents aren’t thrilled with the new relationship and determine to keep them apart. (We all know how well that works!)
The Nursing Home (Black River Plantation):
Noah and Allie are living here in the present-day, at a nursing home. It was filmed at Black River Plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. James Garner and Gena Rowlands play Noah and Allie “all grown up.”
According to the DVD special features, the grand old home was a Sears kit house known as “The Magnolia:”
UPDATE: Someone who studies the Sears kit houses tells me the dimensions are a bit larger and the floor plan is different than The Magnolia, but since the homeowners provided this information, I’m going to assume it was a version of the plan, at least.
Below is the solarium that (older) Noah meets Allie in:
Noah’s Plantation House:
Noah’s house isn’t white and doesn’t have any blue shutters when we first see it.
He takes Allie inside, telling her he plans to buy it and fix it up someday.
Years later, his dad helps him buy the old house and fix it up:
*UPDATE*
A reader named Natalie tells me that her great-great grandfather, Francis Winfield Towles, lived here, and she sent me some amazing old photos of it. You can see them all here.
Love that there’s a dog in the pic. 🙂
She writes that Francis’s father, Daniel Freeman Towles, had the house built, “but he died mining phosphate in Charleston around 1880 and his body was never recovered from the mine. He didn’t live in the house but for a few years before he died. Francis Winfield Towles lived it it from 1880 until his death in 1927, so most people know it as his home.”
The House in 1956:
By then the upper porch was already gone and it looked a lot like it does today.
She also sent me some interior photos of the real house that you can see here.
Noah poses for a newspaper reporter who is writing about his renovated house:
Allie is amazed to see that Noah has actually made good on his long-ago promise to restore the house.
It’s even white with blue shutters, as she requested!
She agrees to stay for dinner, and they reminisce about the last time they were in this room together:
Noah has another surprise for her — an art studio:
The movie was based on a bestselling book by Nicholas Sparks (Amazon affiliate link):
The DVD has some great special features on it for “Notebook” fans (Amazon affiliate link):
Just make sure you’ve got some tissues handy!
The actual home they used is known as Martins Point Plantation on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina.
You can see photos of how they made this house look run-down at the beginning of the movie here.
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This just made my day, thank you for picking this movie! The plantation house is beautiful, and the idea of a kit house is really interesting to me (akin to the floor plans in Southern Living, I guess?) My dad always talks about the kit car he had worked on as a teenager, but a house is another venture entirely. I think I remember the little girl in Miracle on 31st Street wishing for such a home for Christmas. Anyway, I share your favorite: Noah & Allie’s house. You just can’t beat a view of the water, a big porch, and a glass of lemonade! So beautiful, thanks again. 🙂
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Thanks for this post! I LOVE this movie! I am with you, I love Noah’s fixer-upper 🙂
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I always liked the Boone plantaion, ever since I first saw it in the TV mini series. North and South. It always bothered me that it didn’t follow the typical style rules for a southern colonial. In that it has six windows (seven counting the random round window) on one side of the portico and only 4 on the other. ( what is the round window for anyway? always wondered) I do like the ivy covered first floor with white shutters and the second floor with the dark shutters.
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Enjoyed your post today.
Really liked the movie.
Fantastic houses.
God bless,
d
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Yes, the white house with the blue shutters is the best! And that porch swing takes my breath away! Beautiful.
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Thank you for the beautiful pictorial of these homes. The Notebook is one of my favorite movies. It was interesting to learn more about the Boone Plantation. As a young child, I visited this place. But all I remember about it was the slave cabins and the long drive through the oak trees. So beautiful!
Jane (Artfully Graced)
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OMG I love this post, and this house, the white with the blue shutters, the art studio, the swing the side porch…I just love it all. Thanks for a great post!!
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Nicholas Sparks, who wrote The Notebook, is one of my favorite authors. A co-worker just finished reading “The Lucky One” Friday and passed it along to me. The movie was wonderful too- thanks for posting a movie that was made by one of my favorite authors.
I’d have to choose between The Magnolia and the white house with blue shutters. I do love an old house made over. 🙂
I can’t watch that movie without bawling. My husband walked in when I watching it once and was like, “What’s the matter?! What happened?” All I could do was sob and point at the TV…he just rolled his eyes and walked away muttering.
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I really like the Magnolia kit house! I am so curious about how exactly people were able to buy a kit and make a house! I would never imagine they would buy a kit and make a big house like this one!
~ Pam
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What fun these are to read! Thanks so much!
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I think I always assumed that the white-house-with-the-blue-shutters was eventually renovated to be the nursing home, since we can kind-of gather that Noah owns the nursing home. I don’t think I ever realized they were different houses. Thanks for doing this one — I love the period and the region.
It’s awfully ambitious, but you could do it in a series sometime — how about the Harry Potter movies? There’s the Dursley’s, the Burrow, Gimmauld Place, Hogwarts, Hagrid’s hut…
Amazing houses…I’m still stuck on the guy building his house BACKWARDS! I would have been hysterical once I realized that big mistake! 🙂 Enjoyed this post, Julia…you always take us the best places! 🙂
Susan
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Thank you so much for posting all of these pictures. The Notebook is my all time favorite movie and it was so fun to see where the movie was actually filmed. Hopefully some day I will be able to see these magnificant houses myself.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love all of the houses. I live in SC and Boone Hall is gorgeous especially the oaks. I have to agree that I love the white house with blue shutters. Those two story porches are beautiful. Thanks for this post!
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Boone House is so much more beautiful in person. Much, much, more magnificent! Better than the movie!
So fun to see! I love that movie!
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Thank you for sharing all the houses. So inspiring
Sherrie
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I love that old house….and the movie too!
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My father past 3 years ago from Alzheimers. I always loved this movie; it pulls me in so many directions.
This is a precious movie– thanks for sharing.
Love living so close to the pulse of the seasons
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I’ll take the white house with blue shutters too, thanks..although I have to admit I didn’t notice the house much when I watched the movie because I was so focused on the beautiful, tragic people on the inside of it!!
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I really did enjoy this movie. The explanation about all the houses was great, thanks.
-Angela
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I like the simplicity of the white house with blue shutters best, especially with the porches the film crew added. IMO this is a case of the movie being better than the book was.
Thanks for posting these Julia, they must be a ton of work (I love movies, but if I had to write these posts I would never remember to take all the photos like you do, I’d be too engrossed in the movie!)
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Great movie just loved it….my daughter and I saw it at the theatre….after the movie we used the ladies room, we could tell by all the red noses who had come from seeing The Notebook….
Kathy 🙂
Great post – I loved this movie and it was great to learn more about the houses!
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Julia–I look forward to this every Monday! I’d like Noah and Allie’s house–of course, I’ll be painting the shutters a dark green and replacing the adirondack chairs with rocking chairs 🙂 Thanks for another great post!
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Beautiful images that you give us! I can look at them over and over again!
Greet
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Love it. I will have to see this movie and I know I will cry too.
Cheri
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I have been to Boone Plantation. The allee of Live Oaks on the approach to the house is very impressive. That staircase in the picture looks very familiar. It is similar to the layout of the stairs in Strangers on a Train, but the balusters are more Gothic. I’m sure it has be something on the studio back lot.
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What a beautiful post to go with a beautiful movie. I recently watched this on t.v. The transformation was amazing. I would love to tour the grounds, if only those trees could talk. The things we would hear might be amazing. I too cried when she didn’t remember her grandchildren. Living with a husband with alzheimers this is one of my greatest fears. Thanks for sharing..hugs ~lynne~
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A million thanks for this post! One of my very favorite movies, filled to the rim with architectural eye candy. I loved the extra tidbits of information, too. Personally, I like the Magnolia (nursing home) facing the river. Backwards totally works there!
If I had to pick a fave…I suppose it would be the white house with blue shutters because I love a good restoration, and the romance associated with the house pushes it to the top of the list. I mean, who didn’t fall in love with Noah when he made Allie’s dream house a reality?
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My all time favorite movie. I sobbed so hard when I watched it. I love the white house with blue shutters and the significance of a promise filled!
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I LOVE white houses with blue shutters, so I would have to choose that one. So beautiful!
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This is my favorite movie home post you’ve done, thank you! The house with the blue shutters is my favorite. I had forgotten he put an art studio in the house for her. Swoon…
Absolutely one of my favorite movies. Love Nicholas Sparks, just wish his books, and movies didn’t always make me cry.
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Yay, Julia!!!!!!!! What a way to start my Monday! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
And THANK YOU for finally blogging on this fantastic movie! A beautiful story featuring beautiful homes will always win me over. What girl wouldn’t kill for a man who would dedicate a home he painstakingly restored with his own two hands, keeping her wishes and dreams in mind and not even knowing if he’d ever see her again? A true labor of love!
The pictures are amazing, per usual, and the revelation that the Magnolia was a kit home is quite interesting to me.
Now, I’m left to wonder why on earth can’t Sears still manufacture these homes today? I’m sure there’s a market for them, wouldn’t you agree?
With technology today, you’d think that it would be even easier to produce these kits for the masses than it was 100 years ago!
It just doesn’t seem fair!
*sigh*
Until I find my own Noah (don’t tell my hubby!)….
~Sandy
Lovely post Julia! I finally just saw The Notebook a few months ago and totally loved it. I would opt for the white house with blue shutters without any hesitation. That drawing room and large porches…amazing.
Happy Monday!
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Beautiful! Boone Hall was also used as Mont Royal, home of the Main Family, for the North and South Miniseries starring Patrick Swayze and Lesley-Anne Down.
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I’m so glad you picked this movie! I looooove the style of these houses–it makes me want to convince my husband to move eastward, but I can’t give up California weather. I just wish we could get ourselves some of those houses and some of that land here! My dream lifestyle, for sure. If only I could uproot our family and friends and convince them all to relocate…
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Noah’s home is so gorgeous. I loved it when he took Allie to the lake that was filled with swans. That was so incredibly beautiful. Wonderful movie and homes!
This is one of those rare movies that did justice to the book. Just lovely! Thank you for the pictures and the chance to revisit those beautiful houses.
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Please feature the Doris Day movie “Don’t Eat the Daisies.” There is an apartment and an old house that has a before and after!
Thanks for the link, Rick. Very cool!
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er, the information, not the link. 🙂
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I have a suggestion. You Me and Dupree. I was for some reason dreaming of that house las tnight!
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Great post! Thanks for all the research you put into these Movie Mondays!
Each Monday it makes me go down to the library and get that movie out and watch it again….even if I’ve seen it a hundred times. Just taking another look from somebody else’s eyes is great!
Thanks again!
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Boone Hall was also used in Alex Hailey’s Queen. The address is, 1235 Long Point Rd, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464-9020 in case you want to do a Bing map search. You can do a birdseye view and see the out-buildings and how they relate to the house.
Julia I can’t wait till your next movie house.
Rick
What a beautiful post, Julia!
My grandmother didn’t recognize me, the last time I saw her. I gave her a hand crocheted shawl and talked with her awhile. When the nurse came for her, Granny said, look what this nice girl brought me. So I know.
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Ooh, I loved that movie!!! Yes, I cried too!
I even downloaded the beautiful scene on the lake with the swans from YouTube and that scene alone gets to me!
I love the house with the blue shutters the best too. It’s so romantic that he fixed up that house and delivered on his long-ago promise to her. And what a beautiful house.
It’s lunch time at work and I googled Boone house and came up with more information. The large brick house with asymetrical front is relatively new c. 1936-37. Many southern homes were symetrical or mostly but I have stayed overnight at Nottaway Plantation outside White Castle LA and it is very asymetrical.
web site below has application for historic registry and South Carolina Plantation website.
https://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710135/S10817710135.pdf
https://south-carolina-plantations.com/charleston/boone-hall.html#1935
rick
hi
We recently toured the Calhoun Mansion which was used for the interior shots of the parents home in the Notebook. It is in Charleston South Carolina. I have some of the photos if you would like to see them.
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I’d like the backwards Sears house. Houses almost always have a more interesting front (curb appeal). How nice to enjoy it in the privacy of your ginormous backyard!
This was a great post! It offered something most movie reviews don’t: a focus on the locations. As the team that showed off those great locations to recruit this movie to SC, we are very pleased with the response it has received. Our office gets more emails about this film (and those incredible houses) than any other, even “Forrest Gump” and ‘The Patriot”.
Julia, you’ve got a keen eye. The interiors for the house that Allie’s parents owned were shot in a private residence in downtown Charleston, about 15 minutes from Boone Hall called Calhoun Mansion (https://www.calhounmansion.net/) . Calhoun Mansion was also used in “North & South”, as (I think – it was before my time) the house where Lesley-Anne Down’s character lived.
Other places of interest for “Notebook” fans that are open to the public: Cypress Gardens (the boat scene with the swans, etc. ); King St. (where Allie & Noah walk down the street at night and dance); Francis Marion Hotel (NY exterior & club scene interior); and the town of Mt. Pleasant (called Seabrook in the film).
Great post! Noah’s house is definitely my favorite.
Jane
Many thanks to both Rick and the SC Film Commission for providing more details about the locations! -Julia
Now I want to see this movie!
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Have I told you lately that I love you!?! Your site is so fatastically wonderful. Thanks so much! That movie is one of my favorites … I SOB EVERY TIME!!!
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This is so amazing….now,I have to watch the movie again!!
Greetings,
Great piece! I live in Falls Village, CT home to many Sears Homes the most notable is at Music Mountain which houses four cape style homes along with “Gordon Hall”. Music Mountain is said to be America’s oldest continuously operated chamber music hall. About 20 years ago it was used as a showhouse tour.
What a great post on great movie! I am in love with the white house with the blue shutters because of the storyline behind it in the movie. When I found out that there is a special room for Allie to paint I melted. It’s such a sweet movie! For some reason, through all the many times I have watched The Notebook, I have always thought the nursing home was the white house with the blue shutters. I figured Noah turned it into a nursing home so he and Allie could spend the rest of their lives there together. I guess I wasn’t looking very closely!
All three houses are fantastic, but I have to pick the Black River Plantation as my favourite. The fact that it was built backwards is the clincher for me!! I think that makes it so quirky and charming and special 🙂 It’s also cool that it was built from a kit!!
Thanks for your comment on my back to school post 🙂 You’re right, an English degree does come in handy for blogging. Too bad I don’t get paid to blog, though!! 😉
Kelly
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Have you ever feathured the house from “Practical magic”?? I think that is a fabulous
house!..
The white house with blue shutteres would be my pick from the ones you feathured..
its casual, great outdoor spaces and water nearby! love it!
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Marlene–
Yes, as a matter of fact, I just finished writing a post about “Practical Magic.” I’m planning to publish it in October (Halloween month!). Love that house. -Julia
As I was reading the SC film commission post it occurred ot me that the location shot in Mt Pleasant is called Seabrook. the name is also the name of the undertakers cottages at The Boone Plantation.
From the https://south-carolina-plantations.com/charleston/boone-hall.html#1935 link—-
“The Seabrook cottages were built in 1935 by Thomas Stone. The Seabrooks worked for the Stones and lived on the property as caretakers. The cottages are still on the property. One is used as an office and the other has been modified into a larger residence for the current owner.”—-
This post got me reading about more of South Carolina than I thought I would.
Rick S.
I did not know that Black River Plantation was a Sears Kit house. I love Sears kit houses. I adore the fact that they built it backwards. I’ve been to Boone’s Hall Plantation several times (my dad was stationed in Charleston twice when I was growing up) and you are correct, the interiors look nothing like they do in the movie. They’re very “period.” I like all 3 houses, but knowing that the BRP was a Sears kit clinches it for me. That’s my house.
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Hi Julia,
I just wanted to tell you that the Magnolia in the movie was not the only one built in the south from the Sears kit. A friend of our family and the Mayor of Greenwood, South Carolina lives in one that was built by his grandfather. It is a beautiful home that he has restored and it looks just like the picture. Just thought you might want to know. I love your blog because I too am “hooked on houses”!!!
Blessings,
Robin
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Robin–
That’s interesting! Thanks for telling us about that. Maybe I misunderstood what the guy on the DVD special features said (or maybe he didn’t know about the Mayor of Greenwood’s kit house!). -Julia 🙂
I love this film, thanks for posting!
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That is “our” movie, so I loved this post. Both sides of my family have Alzheimers, so it really touched home.
rue
thank you thank you! This is my FAVORITE book ever, and I loved the movie.
What a great post 🙂
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Excellent post! Great research. I cannot watch this movie without having a complete crying jag…
So ironic, I was just sifting through the Sears plans the other day, and saved the Magnolia in my files! I thought it did look “familiar”… but didn’t think any more of it. Too funny. But that is the house I would choose. I love the solarium.
I’ve heard reference to the avenue of oaks too, and cannot remember where. I have a gazillion gwtw books and it was not in the one I thought it would be… perhaps I’ll find it later! I thought I had remembered seeing the actual pic they took.
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I visited Boone Hall Plantation a few years ago on a trip to the South…. it was in the process of being restored then, so we didn’t get to see many of the rooms. But I did recognize it in the film! It was also used back in the 70’s for the mini series ‘North and South’ with Patrick Swayze.
Ok – I’ll be watching this movie again this weekend. LOVE it. Such an interesting post too. It amazes me how you’re able to uncover all of this information.
I hope you’re having a good weekend!
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Great post! Just an added note, Allie’s summer home was filmed at Boone Hall, but only outside of the house. All the inside shots of their summer home were filmed at the Calhoun Mansion in downtown Charleston.
I also love Noah and Ali’s house, does anyone know where it is so that I can look on Google Earth as I live in England so can’t visit the area.
Read all your comments, very informative.
Has anyone watched Somethings gotta give, Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton,
which also is a beautiful house, allthough it is a Hamptons beach house.
Very funny.
Anybody seen Sense and Sensebility, which was filmed near me,
Montacute House in Somerset, [National Trust property]
have a look, I will find Web address and post on this site.
Robin B–
I did a post about Something’s Gotta Give that you can see here:
https://hookedonhouses.net/2009/05/04/the-beach-house-in-somethings-gotta-give/
I’ve written a post about Sense & Sensibility, too, that I’ll be posting soon. Thanks! -Julia 🙂
The interior views of the Large home where he is in the Parlor, she comings down the stairs and The mother sits at the dining table are all “The Calhoun Mansion” at 16 meeting street, charleston, SC (I use to live in the house) It is now open for tours, and The long dining table is still in the house with the chairs. It is now used as the center hall table (all of the leafs were taken out) The table was built for the house in the 1800’s.
All of the interior shoots in the movie were filmed at this house.
In case you did not know,
TRAVIS
Noah and Ali’s house get my vote as well. Regarding the “Avenue of the Oaks”, we have a number of homes here in South Louisiana with beautiful oak canopies. One of my favorite can be seen at Oak Alley Plantation here: https://www.oakalleyplantation.com/visiting/photo+gallery/
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What a great site!!! It answers a lot of questions …. Can somebody please provide me with building/floor plans of noah’s house? I really want to replicate this house.
Blessings to you all,
Chris
i´d like to have one but i´ll just visit the last house dat is when Noah n Alie lived !!!
what do u think?? is possible to take pictures inside the house or not?
The inside of Allie’s Family’s Summer Home was filmed at the Calhoun Mansion in Charleston, SC. I was there last year. Its beautiful inside!!!
The best movie ….I dont have words to desribe the film director thinking……& his hardworking..
Another bit of trivia, Boone Hall Plantation was used for the the exterior of Mont Royal, the plantation of the the Main family for the mini-series North & South while the Calhoun Mansion was also used in North & South. It portrayed Belvidere, the home of the Hazzard family.
The house featured in The Notebook is NOT a Sears Magnolia. Of that, I am sure. Please look at the details and do a thorough comparison of the two houses. They are radically different. I’m 100% certain of this. The house shown above (in the movie and photo) is NOT a Sears Magnolia.
Rose Thornton
author, The Sears Homes of Illinois
author, The Houses That Sears Built
author, Finding the Houses That Sears Built
co-author, California’s Kit Homes
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Really? In the movie’s DVD special features they talked about how the nursing home (not Noah’s house, but the house shown at the beginning and end of the movie when they’re older) was a Sears Magnolia, and that it had been built backwards by accident. This may be the back of it that we’re seeing in the movie, too. Not sure. -Julia
Okay, Kelly (below) just emailed me the information I was looking for. I updated the post with it. Thanks! -Julia
Here is the otherside of the housr. I think the DVD commentator was wrong. 🙁
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Thanks for helping me solve this mystery today. I updated the post with the correct information! -Julia
And Bob Vila did a 30-minute segment on his show, “Home Again” featuring a “Sears Crescent” that turned out to be Pacific Ready Cut Home #367. Oops, Bob! Mistakes happen, even in Hollywood. 🙂
Again, I can state with 100% confidence, the house featured in this movie (The Notebook) is not a Sears Magnolia. For 10 years, I have traveled to 25 states and given more than 200 lectures on Sears Homes and I’ve written about Sears Homes and researched Sears Homes. I’ve been on PBS History Detectives and A&E’s Biography and CBS News and MSNBC and BBC Radio. This is what I do. Sears Homes are my full-time work and also my passion. And based on 10 years in this unique line of work, I can tell you – the house pictured above is NOT a Sears Magnolia.
Rosemary Thornton
My wife loves this movie and you sure do know how to do your homework. I was amazed at how much information you knew and found. My comment more like a question is. Where would you find plans to build “Noahs House”! If I could find these so called replicated plans, I would build this house for my wife after I retire from the military. Any info would be nice, Thanks.
Nate Tibbetts
Not sure if there are any plans out there for his house. I haven’t seen them, anyway. Sorry! -Julia
I was looking for ideas on curb appeal for my home’s exterior door when I came across this wonderful journey about Noah and Allie’s homes! The Notebook was an incredible film that I absolutely love. This post was an unexpected and delightful tour into the real homes used in the film. I especially liked the pictures from the actual film showing it’s backdrop. Thank you so much for all you work putting it together in order for people like me to enjoy. Bravo. – Vivi@n
While summering in Charleston a few years back my father was restoring some of the beautiful staircases seen in the film in the Calhoun Mansion. I was lucky enough to be able to tour the interior or the manison and when I arrived in the gift shop laid my eyes onto one of the most beautiful sights ever, a blue chair from the dining room scene of the movie complete with the “family’s” gold monogram. The shop keeper thought I was nuts when I begged for the chair. He told me it was old and ugly….don’t you know though, he gave it to me! It made my day, my dad packed it up and brought it home. This was a dream come true since the Notebook was one of my all time favorite films. I’ve been to Boone Hall Plantation to see the house, I’ve gone boat riding in Cypress Garden swamps where the swan scene takes place, I walked down King Street the sight of the first date and laying in the road adventure. I even went to the King Street theater to see the movie when it was first released (this is the theater that Noah and Allie go on their double date). I am a HUGE HUGE fan! Now it seems even better that I have the chair! Way to go dad….I should have brought him to career day : ) Since then, I have re-located to the Charleston area. Who wouldn’t want to find their happily ever after here and I have.
Alaina Nummy- Charleston, South Carolina
Just thought I would share with you that Allie’s city home is the Calhoun Mansion in downtown Charleston. You only see the front stoop area, but trust me this Charleston native knows the Calhoun Mansion. 🙂
AT ONE TIME ,I HAD STARTED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE YEARS AGO AND DID NOT GET TO FINISH WATCHING IT. I DID GET TO SEE THE MOVIE OVER THE NEW YAERS WEEKEND 2010 . THIS COMING FROM A GUY SAYING , THE MOVIE AT THE END BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES SEEING ALLIE NOT REMEMBERING AND THEN SEEING THEM ,END UP DYING IN THE NURSING HOME TOGETHER . THE MOVIE , WAS GREAT ! A GUY WOULD SAY IT IS A CHICK FLICK , SO LET IT BE . I FOR A GUY ,JUST MUST BE STARTING TO ENJOY CHICK FLICKS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Two of the houses used in this movie were also used in the 1980’s mini-series ‘North& South’.
Boon Hall Plantation was used for exterior shots of that movie and it was headed by the Main family, Patrick Swayze was head of the family. It was known as Mont Royal Plantation for the movie.
The Cslhoun Mansion was also used in ‘North & South’ as the home stead of a northern industrialist family, the Hazzard’s. The lead was played by James Reed. The home was known as Belvedere and located in Pennsylvania.
Thanks, Victor!
I toured the gardens of the Blackwater Plantation in Georgetown years ago and thought I recognized the house when I was watching the movie because the steps facing the river, which are three-sided, were coverd in creeping fig except for a wide path at the center. Was glad to find out in this article that I was right. Also — regarding the comment about the house being built backwards — many old plantation homes were built facing water (this one is on a river — or maybe an inlet) because transportation was mainly by boat! At least easier by boat! Many plantation homes on the tour had the front door facing the water, but today you drive up from the other direction!
Love this site! I’m on vacation with my family in Charleston and today we saw the Boone Plantation and the Calhoun House and the American Theatre. All are amazing and highly recommended!
very good film…. this is a my favorite films..
thanks of all….
good luck
please email me back n let me knw…my gf wants to knw if the house Noah built and the nursing home are the same house??? is that the only Noah sold it and kept living in it with Allie??? please let me knw if this was the purpose!
Where can i find the blueprint to the house that Noah rebuilt? Me and my husband want to build that EXACT house. if you have any info please write back
Thank you.
Sorry, I don’t know that there are blueprints for it out there anywhere. A good architect should be able to replicate it pretty well for you, though.
Hello, I didn’t see this posted but just wanted to let you know about the interiors of the white house with the blue shutters were filmed at what is called The Admiral’s House on the old Naval base in North Charleston, SC. The scene where they show Allie painting on the upstairs porch is that house as well. It was used in a couple of other movies as well including “The In Crowd” and “O”. It of course always looks a lot nicer in movies, it is currently in pretty bad shape. Here is a link to a small flickr set on my account for pictures. https://www.flickr.com/photos/itsbrandoyo/sets/72157626903450000/
I didn’t know that! Thanks, Brandon. And your photos of the house are beautiful!
very nice post, i certainly love this website, keep on it