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6151 Richmond Street is the home of Blanche Devereaux and her roommates, Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, and Sophia Petrillo. Originally owned by Blanche's husband George, Blanche took care of the house after George's death. It is the primary setting of The Golden Girls.

As of The Golden Palace, Blanche sold the house in order to put up a down payment on The Golden Palace apartment building.

History[]

George and Blanche Devereaux purchased the home sometime before George's death.

Following George's passing in 1976, Blanche continued living at the house by herself, occasionally taking roommates to help keep up with the payments on the house. She previously took in a pair of older women, but kicked them out after she found out they bathed together and flossed each others' teeth. She then put an ad on the community bulletin board at her local supermarket, which attracted the attention of Rose Nylund and Dorothy Zbornak.[1]

Layout[]

Due to the changing of scriptwriters throughout the series, the layout of the house changed and fluctuated throughout the show's seven-year run. Moreover, an official blueprint or layout of the home was never created, so the writers never had anything to reference when having the characters move around the house.

  • The entrances and exits were not physically possible in the layout of the home. Following "The Engagement", the exit from the kitchen becomes the exit into the garage. However, this would mean the garage would be extending into the rear hallway and the bedrooms of Sophia's and of Dorothy's. Moreover, this also did not match the external shots of the house as the garage was clearly at the front of the home.
  • Originally, the ladies would exit upstage right to get to Blanche's room and exit directly upstage to get to the lanai. The rest of the three bedrooms were down the hallway at the upstage left exit. However, following "The Engagement", Blanche's room was moved unexpectedly and without transition to the upstage left hallway with the other bedrooms, and the exit for the lanai was moved to the upstage right exit.
  • The angle of the rear hallway would suggest that Sophia and Dorothy's bedrooms could be seen through the kitchen window, as the bedrooms would be just behind the kitchen of the home's layout. As per the exterior shot of the ranch home, the street would be in the front of the home. However, on many occasions, the girls would look out the window from the kitchen and see another street behind the home, which would not make sense since the bedrooms should be behind the kitchen. This would be physically impossible given this layout.
  • Rose's bedroom, as time went on, was moved from the end of the hallway (where Blanche's bedroom was moved to) to the stage right. This would place Rose's room right outside of the rear of the living room.
  • The upstage exit from the kitchen was often purported to be the home's garage. However, this is also physically impossible. As mentioned above, if that were the case, then the garage would occupy the same space as the back hallway and bedrooms, which, again, does not match exterior shots of the house.
  • According to exterior shots of the house, the garage would have been located on the right side of the house when facing the home. Which would place the garage in relation to the living room and kitchen where the cameras actually were when they were shooting the show. This meant that viewers watched the girls from within their garage.

Because an official floor plan was never created for the home, several fans have created their own layouts based on their own observations and speculations.

Real world influences[]

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Throughout the TV series, every episode begins with the exterior shots of a ranch-style home that depicts Blanche's home of 6151 Richmond Street in Miami, Florida. Again, as mentioned prior, Miami does not have a street address of Richmond Street.

However, of course, the exterior shots of the ranch-style home actually exists in an affluent, quiet, tranquil, and almost private and exclusive town of Brentwood in Los Angeles County, California. As of 2020, the home sold for just over $4,000,000.

Disney World attraction[]

From 1986 onward, the exterior shots of the house were taped at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. Eventually, the studio partnered with Walt Disney World to create Residential Street, a street attraction with replicas of homes from iconic films and television shows. The Golden Girls home was one of the properties reconstructed for the attraction, but only the exterior shots of the houses were built. On July 2, 2003, Residential Street was closed to the public and then demolished. A small Cast Member-only event was held to mark the closing of Residential Street before it began to be demolished.

Appearances[]

The Golden Girls (1985-1992)[]


Trivia[]

  • However, the exterior shots of the iconic home pictured at the start of every The Golden Girls episode is an actual home that exists in the location of Brentwood, Los Angeles County, California (an actual photo of the home to the right of this webpage).
  • In "Sophia's Wedding, Part 2", Blanche incorrectly stated the home's address as "5161 Richmond Street" while on the phone with 911.[2]

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References[]

  1. The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 25, "The Way We Met". Speer, Kathy and Grossman, Terry (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (May 10th, 1986)
  2. The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 7, "Sophia's Wedding, Part 2".  Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (November 26th, 1988)
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