Katniss Everdeen's house

Katniss Everdeen's house
Location	The Seam in District 12
Inhabitants	Katniss Everdeen Primrose Everdeen Mrs. Everdeen Mr. Everdeen Buttercup
Appearances
Appearances	The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay

Katniss Everdeen's house is where Katniss Everdeen lived with her mother and her sister Primrose up until her joint victory with Peeta Mellark in the 74th Hunger Games.

Location

The house was located nearly at the edge of District 12 in the Seam, a few gates down from the Meadow, the fence, and the woods. In an early version of The Hunger Games film script, it was said to be on Holler Street.

Leevy and her brother were the Everdeens' only named neighbors, living just a few houses away. Additionally, while not immediate neighbors, Katniss could get to Gale Hawthorne's house from hers within a few minutes if she cut through alleyways and backyards.

The Everdeens in front of the cracked mirror in The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition.

Description

Katniss described the house as a "squat little place". In the bedroom, Katniss and Prim generally slept in the same bed on a rough canvas-covered mattress, and their mother slept separately. Outside the bedroom, there was a tub and a cracked mirror leaning against the wall, as well as a cloth-covered dining table, a kitchen, a hearth, and a back door. They also seemed to have a problem with rats and mice, which Prim's cat Buttercup was responsible for curbing.

History

Childhood

This house was the place where Katniss was raised, so it was also her childhood home when her father was still alive. When Katniss was seven, she and Prim once sat on the floor and made necklaces of rope like "The Hanging Tree" song.

Loss of Mr. Everdeen

After her husband died, Mrs. Everdeen fell into a deep depression, so severe that most days she was unable to move from a chair or her bed, leaving her homebound. Prim brushed and braided their mother's hair, and she polished Mr. Everdeen's shaving mirror in his absence, since he hated the coal dust that settled on everything.

Months later, once Mrs. Everdeen recovered, she began to run a small apothecary business for people in the Seam out of her home. Sometime between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Katniss saw her mother treat a severe burn victim from the mines on their kitchen table and ran from the house, hunting in the woods for the entire day.

Move to Victors' Village

After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss was given a new house in the Victors' Village as part of her winnings, and her family moved in with her. The old house remained Mrs. Everdeen and Prim's designated residence, and they would have to move back there if Katniss died. However, Katniss was the only person who still made use of the old place, stopping there to change clothes after hunting. Buttercup also visited the house, often leaving Victors' Village while Prim was at school. Katniss and Buttercup met up there more than once.

Bombing

Katniss returned to District 12 a month after its bombing by the Capitol and discovered that her old house had been reduced to ashes, and the chimney was a collapsed heap of bricks. She was glad that she had moved her father's hunting jacket from the old house to Victors' Village before the Quarter Quell, as this had spared it from the flames. About six days later, she went back again to film propos in the ruins of the kitchen, but found herself "drowning" in "too many memories", so they moved along.

Trivia

• Henry River Mill Village in Hickory, North Carolina was used as a filming location for a number of District 12 scenes in The Hunger Games film, including the Everdeen house and the Mellarks' bakery. The village's onscreen fame later led to its purchase and use in tours, both for fans of the film and those interested in the place's history.
• Based on its proximity to the Meadow, this house was probably in the same part of the Seam as the Covey's house.