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Harvard Square

square near the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

🇺🇸 United States · 42.3736, -71.1189

Harvard Square is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“Other locations in Boston used or featured in the film include the L Street Tavern, a Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins combination store, the MIT campus, the Bow and Arrow Pub, an Au Bon Pain store, the Harvard Square, and Bunker Hill Community College.”

Good Will Hunting (1997) · Wikipedia

Open on the map → Wikipedia Source data

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Harvard Square as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Good Will Hunting 1997

Named here by Harvard Square’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Harvard Square, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

The Town 2010

“Ben Affleck shot portions of his film The Town (2010) in Grendel's Den on Winthrop Street, locally famous in the 1970s for its chocolate fondue.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed at Harvard Square?

1 production is recorded as filmed at Harvard Square, including Good Will Hunting (1997). 1 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Where is Harvard Square?

Harvard Square is in the United States, at 42.3736, -71.1189.

What other filming locations are near Harvard Square?

Cambridge, Newton, Boston University, Northeastern University and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by User:Wgreaves, CC BY-SA 4.0.