Filming locations
Where was American Horror Story: Asylum filmed?
1 location on the HorrorMeet Atlas.
- Old Orange County Courthouse / Briarcliff Manor
The 1901 Romanesque courthouse in Santa Ana played the exterior of Briarcliff Manor asylum, with a whole extra floor added digitally; Briarcliff's interiors were studio sets. It popped up again in Freak Show's Orphans.
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