Courthouse Square

The set is composed of several facades that form an archetypal American town square with a courthouse as its centerpiece.

The set was built for the 1948 film An Act of Murder and was featured as downtown Hill Valley in the Back to the Future trilogy, as well as Kingston Falls in the Gremlins series.

A three-alarm fire broke out at the Universal back lot in the early morning hours on June 1, 2008.

[2] The King Kong attraction and New York Street were destroyed.

[4] Following is a partial list of productions that used the Courthouse Square set:[5]

The Courthouse Square in 2011
Courthouse Square set in 1991, two years after the filming of Back to the Future Part II
The square redressed for Ghost Whisperer with the pediment portion of the courthouse covered with a different façade