![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having split from Abigail Chase ( Diane Kruger), Ben is obliged, with assistance from Riley, to break into his former home, which has metamorphosed from the modest house seen at the end of National Treasure into the palatial Greystone Mansion, of the Greystone Park & Mansion, 905 Loma Vista Road, in Beverly Hills, California. National Treasure: Book Of Secrets location: Ben and Riley break into Abigail's house: Greystone Mansion, Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills Built in the 1920s, this nine-story neoclassical structure functions as a memorial, a museum, an active Masonic temple and a performing arts space. The lecture hall, where Wilkinson interrupts Ben Gates’ talk with shocking evidence of the Gates’ treachery, is the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 101 Callahan Drive, Alexandria, south of DC across the Potomac River in Virginia. Oddly, the Richmond was used as ‘Ford’s Theatre’ again in Harold Ramis’s disappointing Bedazzled (the 2000 revamp of 1960s comedy Bedazzled), with Brendan Fraser as (momentarily) Lincoln and Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil. As far back as 1957 it appeared as the ‘Palace Theatre’ from which TV celeb Sonny MacGregor ( Peter Sellers) broadcasts in darkly satirical comedy The Naked Truth, as the ‘Buenos Aires’ theatre in which Eva Duarte ( Madonna) first meets Juan Peron ( Jonathan Pryce) in Evita, and it’s where Lawrence Talbot ( Benicio Del Toro) is playing Hamlet at the beginning of The Wolfman. Opened in 1899 (34 years after the death of Lincoln) and designed by theatre architect Frank Matcham, the Richmond has featured regularly onscreen. The Presidential box and the stage onto which John Wilkes Booth leaps are those of Richmond Theatre in southwest London. National Treasure: Book Of Secrets location: the assassination of Lincoln at 'Ford's Theatre': Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Southwest London | Photograph: Wikimedia / Gts-tg ![]()
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