Mills House

"Just, uh, right up on Mifflin Street. The Mayor's house is the biggest one on the block."

- Archie Hopper to Emma Swan 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.

Visitors

 * Archie Hopper
 * August Booth
 * Bashful
 * Belle French
 * Cora †
 * David Nolan
 * Doc
 * Dopey
 * Dr. Whale


 * Emma Swan
 * Granny
 * Happy
 * Hook
 * Kurt Flynn †
 * Leroy
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Merida
 * Mob Guy


 * Mother Superior
 * Mr. Gold
 * Owen Flynn †
 * Robin Hood †
 * Ruby
 * Sheriff Graham †
 * Sidney Glass
 * Walter

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.


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Production Notes

 * Mifflin Street, the address of Regina's house, is a shout-out to a street in Wisconsin, near the University of Wisconsin, which Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz both attended.


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Lost

 * The house number, 108, is a reference to the television show Lost, where 108 is the sum of the six recurring numbers.
 * The time on Wish Realm Robin's alarm clock is 8:15, two of the Lost numbers.

Popular Culture

 * 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.
 * In "Pilot", a copy of R. L. Stine's children's horror fiction novella The Headless Ghost, from the famous Goosebumps series, is lying upside-down on Henry's nightstand.
 * The boardgames Balderdash, Outburst II, Battleship, Stratego, Scrabble and Aggravation, as well as a Meccano set and a Dominoes set, are sitting on a shelf in Henry's room.
 * When Regina is getting ready for the "Saturday city council meeting", Henry is reading the Marvel comic Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk #1.
 * Henry has several volumes of The American Peoples Encyclopedia in his bookshelf.
 * When Emma calls Henry on the walkie-talkie, Issue 1 of the Marvel comic Avengers vs. X-Men is seen lying on his bed.
 * Pan picks up the comic Avengers Assemble #1 in Henry's room. A variant cover edition of Invincible Iron Man #1 from 2008 is lying on the table.


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Props Notes

 * 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.
 * In "Pilot", there is a different couch in the living room.

Set Dressing
FRAMED PICTURES
 * On one side of the doorway in Regina's dining room, there is a framed picture of a pear. This is a botanical illustration of a Van Mons Léon le Clerc pear, by the nineteenth century American horticulturist Charles Mason Hovey, from his guide book The Fruits of America Volume 1, published in 1852.
 * The picture on the other side of the doorway is "Rosa sinica - Three-leaved China Rose", by Sarah Drake, an English nineteenth century botanical illustrator. The illustration was created for an 1837 issue of Edwards's Botanical Register, an illustrated horticultural magazine that ran from 1815 to 1847. Rosa sinica is an alternate name for the plant Rosa laevigata, also known as Cherokee rose.
 * The pear illustration is also hanging on the wall in Regina's bedroom.
 * Both pictures are also hanging in the corridor outside the room where Regina finds Cora's ghost.
 * One of the pictures in Regina's hallway is a colored version of an illustration by the English eighteenth century entomologist Moses Harris: "Poplar Hawk-Moth, Small Magpie Likeness, Grey Scalloped Bar", from his book The Aurelian: or, natural history of English insects (1840).
 * When David is dining with Regina, Rosa sinica (the picture that was hanging on the left side of the doorway in Regina's dining room in "The Price of Gold") has been replaced with this image.
 * The same picture is hanging on the wall outside the room where Regina find's Cora's ghost (on the second floor), and in a corridor outside Regina's hallway, on the first floor.
 * The picture over the fireplace in Regina's study is an Italian vintage scientific illustration of an owl, from the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century.
 * When Regina is looking though Henry's storybook, the framed picture on the wall behind her is Rosa Centifolia Burgundiaca, a water-color painting by the famous nineteenth century Belgian painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté, from his work The Roses, published between 1817 and 1824. Rosa × centifolia is another name for the hybrid known as cabbage rose.
 * Rosa Centifolia Burgundiaca can also be seen in Regina's study when she and Mary Margaret are cleaning up.
 * One of the framed pictures in Regina's bedroom is Rosa indica Fragrans - Rosier des Indes odorant from the same book. Rosa indica is a synonym for Rosa chinensis, more commonly known as China rose.
 * Rosa indica Fragrans - Rosier des Indes odorant is also in one of the rooms that Cora searches when she breaks into Regina's home, and outside the kitchen when Regina adopts Henry.
 * When David is dining with Regina, a different picture by Redouté is outside the kitchen: "Rosa Muscosa Alba - Rosier mousseux a fleurs blanches", from the same book. Rosa muscosa alba is a synonym for the shrub rose known as Shailer's white moss.
 * 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). (1733).
 * Both artworks appear side by side over Regina's bed in "Welcome to Storybrooke", but the angle makes them very unclear.
 * Over the living room fireplace, there is a framed artwork of two horses, which reflects young Regina's love of horse riding. One half is the first half of Dyad by the Canadian artist Andre Petterson. The other half is Snow Run by the same artist.
 * In "The Savior", the picture has been replaced with a similar artwork, which also shows two horses.
 * The painting The Return of Persephone (1891) by the English painter and sculptor Frederic Leighton is in the hallway outside Regina's study. The artwork depicts Hermes helping Persephone to return to her mother Demeter after Zeus forced Hades to return Persepone.
 * A small painting in Regina's study, depicting a sitting person, can also be seen in Belle and Mr. Gold's bedroom in "Swan Song".

OTHER ITEMS
 * The mirror hanging on the wall in Regina's foyer can also be seen in Belle and Mr. Gold's bedroom in "Swan Song".
 * Henry's bedside lamp has a shadow figure of a swan.
 * Another lamp in his room has a shadow figure of a unicorn.
 * During the Dark Curse, Henry has an amethyst in his room. Amethysts are believed to help people who suffer from a faulty memory.
 * 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 at least eighteen different clocks.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * When David is dining with Regina, the label on the wine bottle has an illustration of a court jester.
 * There is a SKURAR Plant pot from IKEA in Regina's kitchen.
 * There are two Regina-Andrew Design Quatrefoil Drum Lamps in Regina's living room.

WALLPAPER
 * Regina's bedroom has Arabian Scroll Motif Saybrook wallpaper from Wallquest.
 * When Cora searches Regina's home, the wallpaper in the room with the shelves is Moda Colorway HX90107 wallpaper from Anderson Prints.
 * The same wallpaper is on one of the walls in Regina's living room.
 * Like many other Storybrooke locations, the Mills house contains nods to the Enchanted Forest: The wallpaper in the room where Cora appears as a ghost shows tree branches in a forest.

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:


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Filming Locations

 * Exterior and interior 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.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.