The Lake House
Monday, 2nd July 2007 by James Turnbull
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
Has anyone ever seen the Sandra Bullock / Keanu Reeves chick-flick The Lake House?
I've not, but I watched the trailer, and the movie seems to be based around a lake house where both characters live, years apart, yet can communicate via a mailbox TARDIS.
The house was actually a temporary structure built purely for filming. But in the Google Earth aerial photo it can still be seen on the banks of Maple Lake. Look closely and you'll also see a camera boom, trailers, a blue pick-up truck (driven by Reeves' character), and fake snow around the building.
Soon after filming was completed the lake house was destroyed.
Thanks: Charlie Koerner, Dave & knouff
There sure seem to be a lot of cars along that entry road, huh?
At first it looks like the spot is way out in a rural area, but then scan out a bit and it turns out to be right outside Chicago.
What does this place on the next lake down have out front? Armoured vehicles? Is it a museum / church / ?? https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=41.70873,-87.876694&z=19
Do you think that access road was built especially aswell – it would seem so? Film makers seem to go to so much effort (and waste) to make very mediocre movies nowadays dont they? Couldnt they have found a suitable location already built?
Dan: Those would be trailers and support vehicles associated with filming the movie.
Ben: That is the Little Red Schoolhouse
Cookie Monster: This is part of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. The “access road” was not specially built. It’s a road with parking on either side with picnic areas throughout the forested area.
Thanks Vincent! I thought it was a bit excessive but the road didnt seem to have any function apart from serving the temporary film set. Now i know otherwise.
Hey Alex and James – didnt we catch a commercial being filmed in Holland a year or so back? I seem to remember helicopters being involved!
Yes we did Cookie, the African village in Belgium.
Which probably explains why the Tardis isn’t where it usually is.
Ah, they destroyed the lakehouse uh? The next step should be that every copy of the movie should be destroyed as well. What a dud.
As a designer, I’m interested as to who designed the Lake House for real, and please don’t tell me it was Louise Wyler, Alex’s pop.
Did I say Louise Wyler? Sorry, he was named Simon; I stand corrected. I found out too who designed it. Nathan Crowly, the production designer, who also has a degree in architecture (see http://www.celebritywonder.com/movie/2006_The_Lake_House_the_lake_house.html).
Cheers, all.
How can you say the movie was horrible.. when you haven’t even watched it?!? It’s just not fair… you got to give it a chance…
..I gave it a chance…… BURN THE DVDS, MOVIES, ACTORS/ACTRESSES, LAKE HOUSE, DIRECTOR, AND EVERYONE INVLOVED!