Mills Mausoleum

"I have no idea. I took so many. It was impossible to keep track."

- Regina Mills to David Nolan

The Mills Mausoleum and the underground Heart Vault is a Storybrooke location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the seventh episode of the first season.

List of Visitors

 * Cora †
 * David Nolan
 * Dr. Whale
 * Elsa
 * Emma Swan
 * Evil Queen (Serum)
 * Guinevere
 * Henry Mills


 * Hook
 * Sheriff Graham †
 * Isaac Heller
 * Jefferson
 * King Arthur †
 * Maid Marian †
 * Maleficent
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard


 * Mr. Gold
 * Peter Pan †
 * Prince Neal
 * Robin Hood †
 * Sidney Glass
 * Zelena

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * The insignia on the vault shows interlocking deer antlers, a reference to the stag heart which the Evil Queen received from the Huntsman.
 * The boxes containing hearts are arranged in twelve rows and nine columns. When the two numbers are multiplied, the sum is one-hundred and eight, which is also Regina's house number in Storybrooke.
 * The ceiling of Regina's father's tomb says "QU[obscured]SSE VIDERIS". "Quam esse videris" is Latin, and roughly translates as "how to be seen". Esse quam videri is a Latin phrase meaning "To be, rather than to seem (to be)", which has been used as a motto by a number of different groups.


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Production Notes

 * Several establishing shots of the Heart Vault, are recycled from previous episodes:
 * In "Welcome to Storybrooke", there is an establishing shot focusing on the side of the building, which has since been reused in many episodes, including "The Jolly Roger", "A Tale of Two Sisters", "Heroes and Villains" and "Mother". In "A Tale of Two Sisters", the Snow Monster is digitally added to the shot as it stomps through the graveyard. In "Street Rats", a close-up version of the shot is featured.
 * In "The New Neverland", there is a wide shot of the vault. A wider version of this shot, with a different color hue, is used for an establishing shot in "Kansas".
 * The previous episode, "Save Henry", contains a close-up of the vault that seems to have been filmed on the same day. The vault is shown from a slightly different angle, but the moss and leaves over the entrance and on the roof, are identical.
 * An establishing shot from "Shattered Sight", is reused in "Best Laid Plans", but with a slightly darker color hue.
 * This location is referred to as Regina's Mausoleum in episode scripts.


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Props Notes

 * The mirror that Regina traps Sidney in is the same mirror that he first appeared in, in "The Thing You Love Most".
 * In "Hat Trick", the door to the Wonderland Vault is the same as the door to Regina's Heart Vault, but painted in a different color, and an intricate lock instead of door handles. The inside of the door has the same color as the door to Regina's vault, and the same door handles.
 * In "To Catch a Thief", the door, the bricks, the steps, the columns and beam across the columns are the exact same as Regina's vault, indicating that building material from Regina's vault was re-used to build Cora's vault.

Set Dressing

 * The wallpaper in Regina's secret hideout is Etching Damask ET30300 wallpaper from Anderson Prints.
 * There is a Coral Bowl 14" fruitbowl from Maison Bertet (no longer available) in Regina's secret hideout.
 * Regina has the same fruitbowl in the mayor's office.
 * This bowl is also featured at the Vampire Authority meeting table in the fifth season of the television drama series True Blood.


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Filming Locations

 * Although the outdoor scenes are filmed on location, the inside of Regina's vault is a movie set.

Goofs

 * The location of the Heart Vault, changes throughout the series. For example, in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "The New Neverland" and "Kansas", there is a slope on the left hand side of the building, but in "The Queen Is Dead", a different shot from "Kansas", "The Apprentice" and "Shattered Sight", this terrain is flat. The trees around the vault, also differ between these episodes.
 * The headstones around the vault, change dramatically throughout the series. In addition, sometimes there is a statue on the right hand side of the vault, sometimes there is a statue on both sides of the vault, and other times, there are no statues there whatsoever.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.