Abandoned Subway Office ("The Caretaker", Season 3, Ep. 16)
This set is the underground lair of the caretaker who uses the old pneumatic tube system to send things to various nefarious characters.
Container Apartment ("Marvin Gerard" Season 3, Ep. 2)
One of my favorite sets for the show, we find Red and Liz in a very elegant smallish apartment. At the end of the scene, he punches in a code and the entire rear wall opens to reveal that they are in a container, on a ship in the North Sea.
Courtroom Season 6 (multiple episodes)
Red's Cell and Cell Block
Red spends the first several episodes of Season 6 in a prison cell.
Prison Mess Hall Season 6 (multiple episodes)
We needed a prison mess hall for several episodes but didn’t have the space to build it, so we transformed the catering space. Very meta.
Haberdashery ("Sutton Ross", Season 5, Ep. 22)
Red goes here to find the tailor who made a suit jacket for Sutton Ross (he has the mysterious bones).
Blacklister's Lab "General Shiro" Season 6, Episode 7
The lab where the blacklister “weaponized” beetles
Rural Barn "The Kilgannon Corporation" Season 5, Ep. 7
This is the barn that Ian Garvey takes Tom to witness the brutal murder of Lena.
Halcyon ("Alexander Kirk", Season 3, Episode 22)
The Halcyon set was the operation center for Susan Hargrave, played by Famke Janssen. This episode was essentially the pilot for “Blacklist Redemption”.
Red's Loft ("The Forecaster" Season 4, Ep. 10)
This set of an elegant loft was all white for the sole reason that Red shoots somebody in it, splattering his blood over everything.
Crandall's Plane ("Sir Crispin Crandall", Season 3, Ep. 6)
Crandall, played by Harris Yulin, has a full laboratory and cryogenics center in his plane. He freezes exceptional people so he can revive them later after doomsday.
Hunter's Cabin ("Gaia", Season 4, Ep. 4)
This set is the hunter’s cabin where Mr. Kaplan is being nursed back to health.
Alaskan Cabin ("Ruin" Season 5, Ep. 9)
Out of the 5 cabins we’ve built on “The Blacklist”, this is probably the most elaborate as much of the episode takes place in it. This is where Liz comes to recover after she wakes up from her coma.
Secret Lab
Barn Cells ("The Judge" Season 1, Episode 15)
These are the cells in the barn owned by the Judge (Dianne Wiest) to keep her captives .
Death Chamber
Room off the cells, where she would have her captives put to death.
Church ("Mr. Solomon" Season 3, Ep. 17)
The scene in which Liz and Tom are about to get married and Mr. Solomon shoots the place up. The set was completely destroyed.
Trucker's Church
Penthouse
Red's Workshop
This was scripted as “Red’s Garage”, but I thought it would be more fun as a kind of Parisian artist’s garret.
Red's Jet
Abandoned Subway Station
Season 3, episode 16. This set is the secret lair of “The Caretaker” who uses old pneumatic tubes in an abandoned subway station office to send secrets.
Container Apartment
Season 3, episode 3. The show opens with Red and Liz in a very elegant small apartment which turns out to be built inside of a container traveling the North Sea on a container ship.
Veterans Lodge
Season 8, episode 19. This set was a veterans lodge in which Red runs a bingo game.
Red's Restaurant
Season 8, Episode 22. Red’s restaurant where he goes before he will presumably be killed. Red’s safe house this season was the kitchen and this is the restaurant that he had been “working on” thoughout the season.
Red's Kitchen
This was a standing set for season 8. One of Red’s Safehouses.
The Nest
Season 8, Episode 21. The Nest is a WWII bunker below Red’s nerve center where he goes before blowing up Townsend.
Courtroom
Season 6. Multiple episodes. The courtroom in which Red defends himself.
Red's Cell & Cell Block
Season 6. Red ends up in a Federal Prison. His cell is loosely based on Al Capone’s cell.
Prison Mess Hall
Season 6. This is actually the Blacklist catering space. I thought it would be perfect for a prison mess hall with some additions.
The Outpost
Season 8, episode 20. One of the bad guy hangouts in this episode, this set is a bar in New Orleans. In fact, it’s based on an actual bar in Staten Island.
Haberdashery
Season 5, episode 522 (finale). Red is trying to track down a blacklister through his tailor and ends up meeting John Waters (as himself) in a Haberdashers.
Blacklister's Lab
Season 6, Episode 607. This was another blacklister lab (Mark Linn-Baker). He weaponizes beetles.
Rural Barn
Season 5, episode 7. The rural barn where Tom is held hostage and Lena is fed killed and fed into a wood chipper.
Halcyon
Season 3, episode 322 (“Alexander Kirk”). This episode, directed by Michael Dinner was an “embedded pilot” for “Blacklist Redemption” which ended up running for one season. This set was their secret headquarters/war room.
Loft
Season 4, episode 10. The loft where Red kills one of his adversaries. Needless to say, an all white set becomes pretty macabre covered in blood.
Crandalls Plane
Season 3, episode 6. Sir Crispin Crandall, played by Harris Yulin, lives on his perpertually airborne jet. The plane serves as his laboratory to find a way to keep the human race from going instinct.
Cabin in the Woods
Season 5. The cabin where Kaplan is held.
Alaskan Cabin
Season 5, episode 509. Liz lives in a remote cabin in Alaska after the death of her husband Tom (Ryan Eggold)
Townsend's Library
Season 8, multiple episodes. Townsend was Red’s nemesis.
Secret Lab
Season 5, episode 15. The secret lab of a rogue biochemist.
Barn Cells and Death Chamber
From “The Judge” (Season 1, Episode 15). This is the rural barn set where the Judge (Dianne Wiest) keeps her captives until she passes judgment on them and has them executed.
Church
Season 3, episode 317. This is the church that Liz and Tom get married in and are promptly ambushed. There was not much left when we finished shooting (literally shooting).
Trucker's Church
Season 3, episode 8. This was the set of a truckers church built into a tractor trailer.
Penthouse
Red's Workshop
Season 1. This is one of Red’s many safehouses. Originally scripted a a garage, I thought it would be much more fun if it was like a Parisian artist’s garret a La Boheme.
Red's Jet
The plane has been redesigned 3 times! This is number 2.
Clock Repair Shop
Season 6, episode 620. A clock repair shop that is the front for a fence operation.
Pop Up Restaurant
Season 7 episode 9. This set was built as a pop up restaurant of a pretentious chef who wants everyone to eat an endangered owl (which Red ultimately rescues). I thought it would be fun for the space to be an abandoned theater.
Ballroom
Season 7 episode 3. Ballroom where wealthy thrill seekers murder one of their own for entertainment
Middle Eastern bombed out palace
Season 7, episode 4. This set is actually what we call a “rezujj” or re-do. We often rehab previous episode sets for current episodes. This set was set in Kuwait to show Cooper being held in captivity. Originally scripted as an empty warehouse, I rezujjed the ballroom set from episode 3 to become a bombed out ballroom in a middle eastern ballroom.