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Shot Here · STOP 08 · Downtown

Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.

Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed, the one with the gold dome in the window, is the top-floor library of Suffolk University Law School on Tremont Street, facing the Common. Boston.com, Boston Magazine and the school's own student paper all say so. It's a working law library, so you can't go up. From the sidewalk, turn around and you'll see the view he bought.

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The Penthouse Is a Library

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The Globe's list puts The Verdict at Quincy Market and South Station too, both still ahead on this walk, and says its courtroom was built on a Hollywood backlot.

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Was The Departed shot in Boston, or mostly somewhere else?

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