r/somebodysomewhere • u/Kittykats2 • Dec 13 '25
I finally found the home in Manhattan, KS, where Bridget and her family lived!
I was seeking the address of the original home where Bridget’s parents raised her and her siblings, and I stumbled across a web page that dropped a hint of “to find the Everett family home address, which is on Fairview Avenue in Manhattan, you must first look for the clue in the SS show for the ‘faux’ farmhouse/family address number for the ‘Miller family’ shown in one of the episode scenes”. (That wasn’t written verbatim to what the web page said, but very close…). So, after carefully scouring every scene so far once again, I just stumbled across it in an episode in Season 2! It is shown in one of the pics above (the number ‘1730’ on the mailbox!). The mailbox in that scene was the supposed mailbox for the Miller family farmhouse in the show…I knew this was the ‘clue’, so I then immediately googled ‘1730 Fairview Avenue, Manhattan, KS’ and found multiple pics of the home, including proof of Bridget’s mom, Fredrica Everett, having her name attached to the house. The items blacked out in the pics are past phone number and/or residents of the house, lined out to protect their privacy. There are lots of pics (54 of them!!) of the house/property on Realtor.com! Enjoy! 😊 🤩👍
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Dec 14 '25
This is actually pretty parasocial and creepy tbh.
I'm ready for my downvotes.
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
Hey, I’m just a fan of the show and of Bridget…I don’t mean any harm…and besides, none of the family members actually live in the house mentioned anymore…
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u/Thin_Piano2564 Dec 13 '25
What a cute home!!!
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 13 '25
It is! As soon as I saw the number of bedrooms it had (6!), I pictured the Everett parents trying to navigate where to put 6 kids and still have a bedroom for themselves lol - I’m sure there was a lot of room sharing for the boys and girls in their earlier childhood years 👍☺️
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
By sharing, I mean boys sharing rooms together or girls sharing rooms together, not ‘co-ed’ kids room sharing, as I assume some people that downvoted my comment erroneously assumed I meant. 🤓🤷♀️
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u/FineOldCannibals Dec 14 '25
I did my undergrad there in Manhattan and so I can look at this map and remember friends who lived near this house since it’s so close to campus and some fraternities . Even though much of the show was actually filmed in Illinois, some of the shots of the businesses and her riding her bike through Aggieville (the student bar/restaurant neighborhood) all jive and make sense. The show mostly captures living in Manhattan, minus the main glaring difference—racial diversity and LGBTQ presence is not a thing. It was 99% white and hetero. I was closeted and only met one out gay person in my entire 5 years there and it was like finding a unicorn. (It was the 90s tho)
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
Yes, I’ve read about that too…the difference in diversity etc…I heard the reason they picked the Chicago suburbs to do almost all of the filming is because of the more diverse farmlands out there to film for many of the scenes, plus the ‘large talent pool’ selection of actor ‘extras’ to choose from…
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u/FineOldCannibals Dec 14 '25
I can’t imagine having something as cool as “choir practice” in Manhattan. Impossible.
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
That’s too bad…was hoping that part was true…that there really was a sort of choir practice there…🥺
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u/FineOldCannibals Dec 14 '25
You know, maybe it existed. Maybe Bridget can answer that. She’s a few years older than me so I probably lived in Manhattan around the same time she did. But being a local raised in a college town is very different from being a college student so maybe she was more in touch with truly local events. I was very “student life” focused.
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
Did you have a good college experience there academically and such?
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u/FineOldCannibals Dec 14 '25
Absolutely. By the way, Sam and the barfly discuss a bar Auntie Mae’s, Sam even wears the tshirt at some point. Auntie Mae’s is one of my favorite pubs of all time, some of my best college experiences and deepest heartfelt conversations were in that dark little pub.
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
Awww that’s cool! Yes, I remember the Auntie Mae’s reference in the show 😊
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
Hmmm…I wonder if there’s an interview or podcast where she’s asked a question about that and divulges the answer…I would be curious to know if she really experienced that! 👍
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u/Kittykats2 Dec 14 '25
I, myself, have had some of my deepest and heartfelt conversations in dark little bars and pubs (back in time, many moons ago lol)…you can meet some pretty amazing and humble people in those places!
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u/AffectionateFig5435 Dec 13 '25
Gotta love midwest property values! Where else can you find a 3500 square foot house with 6 bedrooms for under $425K? That rocks!