List of Familiar Backlot Buildings
Core structures that stood for decades and appeared in many productions are listed here, most of which were constructed to represent, in Gone with the Wind, the antebellum Town of Atlanta, and later used for the fictional Mayberry. This portion of the backlot was the most permanent, and thus the most repeatedly recognizable, existing from 1939 until 1976. Other structures like the Jerusalem set, which was torched to make room for the Atlanta set, or Tara, which was replaced with the Hogan Heroes stalag set, did not survive as long. The western/European set at the east end of the backlot also did not survive past the mid sixties.
The two main arteries that traversed the Atlanta/Mayberry set were Atlanta or Main Street, which ran east/west and opened at one point onto a town square, and North Street, a cross street that bisected it at the four corners just west of the square.
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church | 2 | SE end of town square | 1947–76 |
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courthouse | 2 | NE of town square | 1947–76 |
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residence | 2 | across from church | 1939–76 |
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bank | 2 | SE corner Atlanta/North | 1939–76 |
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store/cafe | 3 | NW corner Atlanta/North | 1939–76 |
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main hotel | 2 | center, town square | 1945–76 |
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tall hotel | 4 | NW of town square | 1947–76 |
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theatre | 2 | NW of town square | 1939–75 |
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buildings | 2 | rear of courthouse | 1955–76 |
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shop | 2 | E of town square | 1955–76 |
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store plaza | 2 | N of town square | 1955–76 |
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depot | 1 | west of town | 1939–71 |
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store/cafe | 3 | SW corner Atlanta/North | 1939–76 |
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Tara | 2 | NW portion of backlot | 1939–59 |
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office | 3 | NW end of Atlanta St | 1939–76 |
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cafe | 2 | S side of Atlanta St | 1938–76 |
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hotel | 2 | SW of town square | 1938–76 |
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townhouse | 2 | top of North St | 1950–76 |
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town hall | 2 | bottom of North St | 1950–76 |
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