“The Bedroom Window” Apartment

I am always on the lookout for new thrillers and scary movies to watch, especially during this time of year.  While researching Baltimore locations in preparation for our recent trip to the Old Line State, I came across information about the brownstone apartment featured in The Bedroom Window.  I had never seen the 1987 crime flick before, but remembered hearing good things about it.  So, figuring the locale would fit in perfectly with my Haunted Hollywood posts, I added the address to my To-Stalk List and ventured right on over there while in town.  I finally sat down to watch the movie this past week and found it really held up against the test of time, despite being almost thirty years old.  The Bedroom Window is thoroughly frightening and suspenseful.  For those who haven’t seen it, the film centers around businessman Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) who starts up an affair with his boss’s wife, Sylvia Wentworth (Isabelle Huppert).  Never a smart move.  On the evening of their first tryst, Sylvia witnesses an attack on a woman in the park located just outside of Terry’s apartment.  She, of course, can’t come forward as a witness, so Terry agrees to call the police and pretend as if he saw the assault.  Not surprisingly, things do not go as planned and not only does Terry become a suspect in the crime, but the real culprit comes after him and Sylvia.

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In The Bedroom Window, Terry lives in an apartment located in a handsome four-story brownstone.

Amazingly, the property still looks much the same today as it did in 1987 when the movie was filmed.

The picturesque Federal-style building was originally built in 1900.

It is situated in the Mount Vernon Place Historic District, an area that surrounds Baltimore’s Washington Monument.  The entire neighborhood is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The brownstone, like those that surround it, was likely originally constructed as a single-family home.

It was subdivided at some point in time and today the building is made up of individual condo units.

In The Bedroom Window, Terry is shown to live on the second floor in Unit 4.  His window, from which Sylvia witnesses the attack, obviously figures prominently in the story.

I am fairly certain that the interior of Terry’s flat was a set built on a soundstage and not one of the building’s actual units – which is unfortunate because it was a fabulous place.  It reminded me a bit of the New York loft where Josh (Tom Hanks) lived in Big.

You can check out what one of the building’s actual units looks like here.

The church down the street from Terry’s brownstone also made a brief appearance in The Bedroom Window.

The hauntingly gothic sanctuary, which was designed by Thomas Dixon and Charles L. Carson in 1872, is known as Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church.

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Stalk It: Terry’s apartment from The Bedroom Window is located at 12 East Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore.