Where was It filmed? Stephen King’s It Chapter 1 & 2 Filming Locations in Derry, Maine

It is an adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most popular and bestselling novels, the classic horror book first published in 1986.

It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two are set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. However, It was filmed in Port Hope and Toronto in Ontario (Canada).

It follows the story of a group of children, The Losers Club, terrorized by a demonic entity that appears in the form of an evil clown, Pennywise.

The producers had already planned to make a sequel to the movie when filming the first one, set in 1989.

The second part, which premiered in September 2019, reviews the events of the film released in 2017, from the point of view of the kids as adults, 27 years later.

Welcome to Derry and the best guide to the filming locations of the movie that you can find. We've tried to keep the spoilers at bay.

Click here to go directly to the new Chapter Two locations. If you are looking for the Chapter One locations and the ones that are featured in both chapters, just keep reading:

Interior scenes were shot in a mansion from 1902 called Cranfield House, located at 450 Pape Avenue in Riverdale (Toronto).

This house often appears on film and TV, with credits including Orphan Black, The Strain, or Designated Survivor.
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Port Hope was transformed into Derry for the shoot. The town, famous for its well-preserved period architecture, is the portrayal of Bangor, a city in Maine where Stephen King has a house.

Derry could be twinned with the fictional village of Elden, France, featured in the Netflix series Marianne.
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Several scenes downtown for both chapters take place in Memorial Park. Here is where a statue of Paul Bunyan was erected just for the film.
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The Municipal Hall doubled as the Derry Public Library. The interior scenes were filmed at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto.
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The shops and businesses in Walton and Queen streets changed their signs and decoration to look like 1980s stores for Chapter One.

The infamous alley is across the street from Capitol Theatre. The local Keene's pharmacy is the former Watson's Guardian Drugs at Walton and Ontario Street.

The second-hand shop Rose from Chapter 2, featuring a cameo from IT author Stephen King himself, is the Joie de Vivre store at 45 Walton Street.
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Beverly's house, with the external metallic staircase, is around the corner from the alley and Capitol Theatre, on Brogdens Lane.
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The opening paper boat scene in Chapter One was filmed using rain cranes in the Weston neighborhood in York (Toronto).

Bill's house (pictured) is located at 124 Queens Drive. The crew was also shooting in a house at 65 King Street.
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The sewer grate is located very close to the house, at Springmount Ave and William Street.
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Derry High School was filmed in the Mount Mary Retreat Centre in Ancaster, a historic town in the city of Hamilton.
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The synagogue is the building of the Congregation Knesseth Israel in Toronto.
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Ben's house and some street scenes were filmed on Court and Fisher Streets in Oshawa.
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Henry Bower's house is a farmhouse in the hamlet of Whitevale in Pickering, Ontario.

The same house was also used as the location of Will Graham's house in NBC's Hannibal.
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It was also shot at Elora Quarry in Wellington County.

The scenes in the barrens near the river were filmed in Rouge National Urban Park in the Scarborough neighborhood (Toronto).
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Filming also took place in the scenic West Montrose Covered Bridge, also known as the Kissing Bridge.
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The Thomas Hill Standpipe is situated just a few blocks away from Stephen King's house in Bangor (Maine).

However, the water tower that appears in the movie was digitally reproduced using CGI.
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The sewer system was built on a set at Pinewood Toronto Studios.
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The funfair from Chapter 2 was set in a parking lot located next to the two railway bridges over the Ganaraska River in Port Hope.
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Eddie's car crash was filmed at the corner of Bay Street and Adelaide Street in downtown Toronto.
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The venue where Richie performs as a stand-up comic in Los Angeles is the magnificent Elgin Theatre at 189 Yonge Street also in Toronto.

This location was also featured in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and Guillermo del Toro's 2017 movie The Shape of Water.
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The old friends reunite over Chinese dinner and have some fortune cookies at Jade of the Orient. This scene was filmed at the Mandarin Restaurant in Mississauga.
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The exterior of the Derry Town House was filmed in the Hotel Carlyle at 86 John Street in Port Hope.

However, the interior rooms were shot at the Masonic Scottish Rite Club building in Hamilton, a manor used in many big productions including The Handmaid's Tale and Crimson Peak.
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40 comments:

1- Anonymous - September 19, 2017 at 10:52 AM
It was also filmed on Steeles Ave. just past Whittamore's.

2- Anonymous - September 20, 2017 at 7:42 AM
Elora Quarry is not a lake... it's just the Elora Quarry (when it was being mined they hit a natural spring). It backs onto the Grand River, but there's no lake.

3- Anonymous - November 5, 2019 at 4:41 PM
Who said anything about it being a lake?

4- Anonymous - August 6, 2020 at 7:40 AM
Dude, you realize that articles undergo edits, right? It probably said lake before this dude corrected them almost three years ago.

5- Tom - September 20, 2017 at 2:26 PM
I heard there was some stuff filmed in Enniskillen Ontario as well...?

6- Anonymous - September 21, 2017 at 7:18 PM
I take it that Henry and the scenes at his house were filmed along there? I managed to find one possible location but it doesn't quite match up with the movie and trailer.

7- Anonymous - February 10, 2021 at 9:45 AM
1585 Whitevale road, Pickering. Search this in Google Maps. It's that house.

8- Anonymous - September 23, 2017 at 10:24 PM
What about the water tower, was that Bangor's old water tower?

9- Tim - September 26, 2017 at 11:55 AM
The Thomas Hill Standpipe scene was shot on location just a few blocks from S.King's house in Bangor: https://goo.gl/maps/8d3bLd7mXo9uvwZM6

10- Anonymous - November 24, 2019 at 10:09 PM
The Chinese food restaurant scene in It 2 was actually shot at the Oriental Jade restaurant in Bangor Maine. Also, the reason for the name "jade of the orient" in the movie.