Oak Street does not exist. Wisteria Lane does, in a few blocks of southwest Atlanta most of the city has never driven through, and for a stretch of spring 2024 it was dressed as a Michigan cul-de-sac about to be swallowed by the Mesozoic.
Anne Hathaway stood in Thomas McCoy’s front yard. He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution his street is “quiet, peaceful. All good. No dinosaurs!” His wife Phyllis has lived on Wisteria Lane for 23 years and watched a crew build out extra rooftop on the split-foyer house standing in for the family home.
Wisteria Gardens, Which the City Does Not Call Adamsville
The neighborhood is Wisteria Gardens, an official City of Atlanta designation inside Neighborhood Planning Unit H. It sits in the 30331 zip code, south of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, roughly two miles east of I-285, and the 2010 census counted 512 residents across a footprint you can walk end to end.
Locals describe it as being in Adamsville, which is how most of the city talks about that side of town. Atlanta’s own neighborhood rolls list Wisteria Gardens and Adamsville as two separate entries, both inside NPU H. Worth knowing if you live there, because NPU H also contains a third neighborhood officially named Fairburn Road/Wisteria Lane. One street name, two neighborhoods carrying it, and The End of Oak Street filming locations landed in the one most people have never heard of…