Riverview Hospital, Crease Clinic
As promised, this next post in the series on reused locations continues at Riverview Hospital with another of the distinctive buildings used in Supernatural, the Crease Clinic.
For anyone who didn't catch the last post on the West Lawn Building, Riverview Hospital is an old psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam, now mostly decommissioned and heavily used by the film and television industry for filming. Supernatural filmed there so often that if you counted all the buildings and locations on the grounds as a single location, it would no doubt be the most used location on the show.
Now, full disclosure, it is guaranteed that I don't have all the times SPN used the Crease Clinic documented. Most of the uses were interiors and when it comes to all the hospitals, morgues, police stations, offices, and various other insides of buildings, who knows how many more of them may been shot inside these buildings, but I'm sure it's in the dozens. The ones I do have documented are either because some distinctive part of the building was shown or because it was listed on a Call Sheet or similar filming document.
The first known use was in 1x05 Bloody Mary when the boys visit the morgue.
These stairs also seen in the episode are one of the more recognizable features of this particular building.
The first exterior is in 1x10 Asylum, where Crease Clinic stands in for the Roosevelt Asylum.
Interiors are used here too with that staircase making another appearance. I do not know for certain that all of the asylum interiors were shot in this building versus some of the others at Riverview, but certainly many of them were.
The staircase is back again for 2x01 In My Time of Dying, as are many of the interiors of the hospital. Once again, cannot be certain all the hospital interiors were this building but many are.
Changing to non-medical buildings, Crease Clinic is playing the prison in 2x19 Folsum Prison Blues. Following a theme, certainly some of the prison interiors were in this building, if not others at the hospital, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of police station interiors were as well, and probably the location where the boys get arrested.
This is also where we first see the back of the cafeteria building that sits behind the main Crease Clinic.
In 4x06 Yellow Fever, Crease Clinic was both the inside and outside of the assisted living facility where the boys interview the victim's brother. But I'd be willing to bet either this building or one of the others on the property was also the morgue and the police station.
In 4x13 After School Special, Crease Clinic is both the inside and outside of Fairfax County Hospital.
A chunk of 6x10 Caged Heat was shot here for Crowley's lair.
Look, it's those stairs again!
In 7x17 The Born-Again Identity and 7x21 Reading Is Fundamental, the building is used for most of the exterior hospital scenes where first Sam and then Cas are staying. The exception being that the establishing shot of the exterior is of the North Lawn building (and reused from Sam, Interrupted). At least some of the interiors are here too, though I suspect the actual hospital room was a set.
In 8x03 Heartache, Crease Clinic is the police station. Again the hospital from the same ep seems to be the East Lawn building, so there's a lot of bouncing around between buildings once they are on Riverview property.
In 8x20 Pac-Man Fever, the video game djinn dream that Charlie is stuck in is all inside this building. Probably the regular hospital scenes with her mom too if I was to take a guess, but those could be one of the other buildings.
Then there's a big jump and not another known use until S14. But I highly doubt it was actually that long. There were probably multiple interiors in that time that just haven't been confirmed.
In 14x02 Gods and Monsters, the building was once again a morgue.
And then the last known use, though probably not the last actual use, was in 14x04 Mint Condition as the hospital Hachetman is terrorizing in the movie footage. The hospital in the context of the episode seems mostly to be in the East Lawn building through I can't be sure which building houses the morgue.
Someday I'll actually go down a rabbit hole of matching up Riverview interiors to add to this list but the hyper fixation will have to nab me just right for that.
The next entry in this series is going to depart Riverview and look at a location that only appeared twice, 15 years apart!
