Mills House

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

- Archie to Emma 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 †
 * Cora †
 * David Nolan
 * Doc
 * Dopey
 * Dr. Whale


 * Emma Swan
 * Evil Queen (Serum)
 * Granny
 * Happy
 * Hook
 * Kurt Flynn †
 * Leroy
 * Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Merida


 * Mob guy
 * Mother Superior
 * Mr. Gold †
 * Owen Flynn †
 * Robin Hood (Lacey) †
 * Ruby
 * Sheriff Graham †
 * Sidney Glass
 * Walter

Trivia

 * -|On-Screen Notes=

On-Screen Notes

 * The address is 108 Mifflin Street. This is a nod to Regina's vault having 108 boxes with hearts.
 * Regina's house is white; complementary to her palace, which is black.
 * The phone number for the Mills house is (207) 555-0121.


 * -|Production Notes=

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.
 * Footage from the filming of the opening shot of the scene where Emma brings Henry home at night in "Pilot" was reused for an establishing shot of Regina's house in "Page 23" and "Is This Henry Mills?". The identical position of the curtains in the windows and the lighting behind them, the shadows on the walls and the open window on the second floor, are a dead giveaway.


 * -|Cultural References=

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

 * A miniature reproduction of the famous sculpture Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss by the Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova is sitting next to the armchair in Regina's study. Notice how Cupid's wings are missing from Regina's copy.
 * Some of the books in the bookshelf 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
 * A book about Mother Theresa
 * The School of Donne by A. Alvarez
 * A book about Queen Victoria
 * 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, the first issue 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.
 * Among the numerous fairy tale illustrations pinned to the wall in Henry's room is the famous painting The Lady of Shalott (1888), by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. It depicts Elaine of Astolat in a scene from Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shallot" from 1832.


 * -|Set Notes=

Props Notes

 * Henry's desktop wallpaper is a green forest, a reference to the place his family is from.
 * The mirror hanging on the wall in Regina's foyer, which she smashes in anger when she fails to seduce David, can also be seen in Belle and Mr. Gold's bedroom in "Swan Song".
 * 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; indicating that they're all re-used props.
 * In "Pilot", there is a different couch in the living room.

Set Dressing
REGINA'S PICTURES

Regina's house is full of artworks by various artists – most of them are classical illustrations from old works and guidebooks about plants and creatures, most of which are available as free eBooks online due to expired copyrights (these are linked to in the descriptions – the links lead to the exact page where the illustration appears). Note that many of the artworks appear in more than one room, indicating that the prop department liked to move the pictures around:


 * A framed picture in Regina's living room can also be seen in the restaurant where Rogers meets Michael Griffiths in "The Garden of Forking Paths".
 * 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".
 * In "the Snow Queen", "Strige detta Falco Civettino d'America" has been replaced by two small paintings. The same pictures are hanging by the bed in Mr. Gold's hotel suite in "Only You" and Mr. Samdi's office in "Homecoming".

HENRY'S PICTURES Henry, who is deeply fascinated with fairytales, has decorated his room with all sorts of fairytale illustrations and cut-outs. Most of the pictures are old illustrations by well-known artists and illustrators from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century, created for old books that are available for free online due to expired copyrights (these are linked to in the descriptions – when a book isn't available in eBook form, an Amazon link is provided where possible). Note that the pictures vary from episode to episode and also keep switching position between episodes, indicating that the prop department liked to change the pictures and move them around. Henry's collection includes:

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.

OTHER ITEMS
 * 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 in "Pilot". The writers put it there to connect mother and son in some way.
 * Henry has a 1985 Elami Jr. computerized plastic robot from Robotland Inc.
 * There is 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.
 * Two decorative boxes are sitting on Regina's coffee table in "Bleeding Through" and "The Savior". One of them can also be seen on a side table in "Murder Most Foul". These two boxes were later used to decorate the living room in Gothel's tower in "Eloise Gardener", where one box is sitting on a shelf, while the other one can be seen on the bedside table. A few years later, one of them is sitting on a shelf next to young Alice's bed in "Knightfall". One of them can also be seen in adult Alice's cottage in "The Guardian".
 * A Royal Albert Val D'Or coffee pot and creamer are sitting on Regina's coffee table during her conversation with Robin of Locksley. The teacups and saucers are from the same series.
 * Rumplestiltskin has the same teacups, saucers and creamer in his castle, but with added blue paint.


 * -|Other Notes=

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 Hastings' house in the 2006 romantic comedy film She's the Man (a movie which features Once Upon a Time guest star John Pyper-Ferguson), and as the Holvey residence in The X-Files episode "The Căluşari".
 * While Henry's bedroom is part of the John H. McDonald House, some scenes in his room are shot on a television set at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby, where Once Upon a Time was filmed.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.