Mills House

"This is nice. So luxurious!"

- Zelena to Regina Mills Regina Mills' House is a Storybrooke location on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the first episode of the first season.

Trivia
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On-screen Notes

 * The address is 108 Mifflin Street. This is a nod to Regina's vault having 108 boxes with hearts.
 * Some of the books included on the top left shelf of Regina's study are Spy by Ted Bell, A Game of Secrets by Thomas Wiseman, Rule by Proxy by Bruce Ducker, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen and a book about Mother Theresa.
 * Henry's bedside lamp has a shadow figure of a swan and a unicorn.
 * The boardgames Balderdash, Outburst II, Battleship, Stratego, Scrabble and Aggravation, as well as a Meccano set, are sitting on a shelf in Henry's room.
 * Just like his father, maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather, Henry has a large collection of clocks. A close look at his bedroom reveals he has, in total, eighteen clocks.
 * Henry has several volumes of The American Peoples Encyclopedia in his bookshelf.
 * Henry has an amethyst on his bookshelf. Amethysts are believed to help people who suffer from a faulty memory.
 * Like many other Storybrooke locations, the Mills house contains nods to the Enchanted Forest, both the mainland and the maritime part: A cupboard in Regina's living room has an engraving of a ship's rudder, and the wallpaper in the room where Cora appears as a ghost shows tree branches in a forest.
 * An artwork by French engraver Bernard Picart, Semele is Consumed by Jupiter's Fire (1731), is in Regina's bedroom.
 * The same artwork also appears in Regina's study, along with another work of art by the same artist: Pygmalion is Enamored with a Statue He Had Made (1733).

Henry's Pictures
Henry is deeply fascinated with fairy tales, and has decorated his room with all sorts of pictures and cut-outs of fairy tale illustrations, including:


 * "The Stout Bout between Little John & Arthur a Bland", from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle.
 * An illustration from the cover of the first edition of Paul Creswick's 1917 novel Robin Hood, illustrated by the American artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth. Not one, but two copies of this picture can be seen on Henry's wall.
 * "The Seven Ravens", by the famous English book illustrator Arthur Rackham, from Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1909) (later re-published as Snowdrop & Other Tales By the Brothers Grimm). It depicts a scene from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of "The Seven Ravens".
 * An illustration from Hours in Fairy Land: Enchanted Princess, White Rose and Red Rose, Six Swans, an obscure children's book from 1883, which contains three illustrated tales from the Brothers Grimm, set into verse form by Josephine Pollard. The illustration depicts a scene from the Grimm fairytale "The Six Swans". Interestingly, this story is about six brothers who have been turned into swans by their hateful stepmother (an evil daughter of a witch).
 * A set of fairy tale illustrations by the English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane:
 * An illustration from The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book (1875), depicting a scene from "Sleeping Beauty", where Sleeping Beauty and the prince watch as the royal court awakens from the sleeping curse.
 * Another picture from the same book, where the prince awakens Sleeping Beauty, is also seen.
 * An illustration from the French literary fairy tale of "The Yellow Dwarf", c. 1878.
 * An illustration of Goldilocks eating the porridge in "The Story of the Three Bears", from the Mother Hubbard Picture Book.
 * Another illustration from the book, where the titular character sits in the chair, is seen in another episode.
 * An illustration" depicting a scene from the Grimm fairy tale "The Frog Prince", from the book The Frog Prince and Other Stories (1874).
 * "Queen of Hearts She Made Some Tarts" by the nineteenth century British artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott, from his book The Queen of Hearts, and Sing a Song for Sixpence.
 * "His children were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody", by Arthur Rackham, depicting a scene from Washinton Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle".
 * Part of "Fee fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman" (1918) by Arthur Rackham. This illustration is from English Fairy Tales by the English writer Flora Annie Steel, and depicts a scene from "Jack and the Beanstalk", in which the Giant smells Jack.
 * Another picture by Rackham, from the same book, can also be seen: "The Three Bears", from a scene in "The Story of the Three Bears".
 * "Little Red Riding Hood" (1875) by Walter Crane.
 * "Robin Hood and Little John" (1912), by the English-born American artist, illustrator and author Louis Rhead, from his novel Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band: Their Famous Exploits in Sherwood Forest. It depicts a scene from the ballad "Robin Hood and Little John".
 * "The Trees and the Axe" from a 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
 * Another illustration from the book, "The Hare and the Tortoise", can also be seen.
 * Two copies of an illustration by the artist and book illustrator Helen Stratton, from a 1903 edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales. The image depicts a scene from the "Cinderella" fairytale, in which a bird gives the titular character a beautiful ball gown. One image is pinned next to Henry's door, while another copy can be seen among the images adorning the wall next to Henry's bed.
 * An illustration by the American illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith, from Nora Archibald Smith's book Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923). It features Alice in a scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, surrounded by the characters of Wonderland, including the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit (note that in "The New Neverland", the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter have been cropped off, and only the Mad Hatter's hat can be seem in "The Price of Gold" ).
 * "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - A Mad Tea-Party" (1907) by Arthur Rackham. It is an illustration of a scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party with the March Hare, the Dormouse and the Mad Hatter.
 * "The Princess and the Pea" (1911) by the French-born, British illustrator Edmund Dulac, from the book Stories from Hans Andersen, with illustrations by Edmund Dulac. This is an illustration of the famous bed scene with all the mattresses, from "The Princess and the Pea".
 * Engravings by the nineteenth century French artist Gustave Doré, from Les Contes de Perrault, an 1867 edition of the seventeenth century French author Charles Perrault's fairy tales:
 * An illustration of a scene with Red Riding Hood in bed with the wolf, from the fairy tale of "Little Red Riding Hood".
 * Another illustration depicts a scene from the famous folktale "Bluebeard", where the titular character warns his wife about the keys.
 * Another illustration from the book can be seen next to it. This engraving depicts a scene from the literary fairytale "Puss in Boots", where the puss meets the ogre (note that in "The Stranger" and "An Apple Red As Blood", the ogre has been cropped off).
 * A fourth illustration depicts a scene from "Cinderella", where the prince lets the titular character try on the glass slipper.
 * "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination", an 1863 engraving by Doré, depicting a scene from the famous novel Don Quixote, in which the titular character goes mad from his reading of books of chivalry.
 * An illustration, also by by Doré, of Dante being lost in Canto 1 from the epic fourteenth century poem Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The image is from an 1862 edition of Dante's Inferno, the first part of the poem.
 * "Little Miss Muffet" by Arthur Rackham, from the nursery rhyme of the same name.
 * Part of "And there, on a bed the curtains of which were drawn wide, he beheld the loveliest vision he had ever seen" by Edmund Dulac, from Arthur Quiller-Couch's book The Sleeping Beauty and other Fairy Tales (1910).
 * "Red Riding Hood", a watercolor painting by the freelance illustrator Medusa Lemieux, from the 2009 Student Scholarship Competition at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.
 * "The King Rides off with the Dumb Maiden" (1872) by the Victorian era British artist Eleanor Vere Boyle. This painting depicts a scene from the literary fairytale "The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen. Interestingly, this story is about a princess who sets out to rescue her brothers who have been turned into swans by their stepmother, an evil queen who is a witch.
 * Robin Hood and the Lady, an artwork by Walter Crane.
 * "Destruction of Leviathan", an 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré, based on Book of Isaiah 27 in the Bible, where God slays the sea monster known as the Leviathan.
 * "At this the whole pack rose up into the air and came flying down upon her" (1907) by Arthur Rackham, based on the playing cards scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
 * A scetch by Doré, of a shipwreck scene from the ballet "Le Corsaire", circa 1856.
 * "Red Riding Hood meets old Father Wolf", by Doré.


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Production Notes

 * Scenes at the Mills House are filmed at the John H. McDonald House, a Heritage home built in 1936, in New Westminster, Canada. The house was designed with a Colonial Revival style, and stands out from its' neighbors as it's on a substantially larger lot with manicured lawns, gardens, and even a three car garage.
 * The house also doubles as Viola Hasting's house in the 2006 romantic comedy film She's the Man.
 * Henry's room has a Rubik's Cube. Another one can be seen in Emma's Boston apartment. The writers put it there to connect mother and son in some way.
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Props Notes

 * There is a 1985 Elami Jr. computerized plastic robot from Robotland Inc. and a 1985 Nintendo R.O.B. video game controller in Henry's room.
 * There is a SKURAR Plant pot from Ikea on Regina's kitchen island.
 * There is a Regina-Andrew Design Quatrefoil Drum Lamp in Regina's living room.
 * The couch in Regina's living room is from Christopher Guy Furniture. It is exactly the same couch as the one she has in her office at the town hall. Even the pillows are the same.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.