Some of this information was originally published in my posts on the Beyond Little House site, but I thought it was worth republishing here with a few updates. Her husband grew up nearby and used to sneak on to the ranch to watch them shoot.
A shot from her wedding is at the link below. Rachel Greenbushβ¦Baby Carrieβ¦Mrs. Alison Arngrim, who appeared on the show as Nellie Oleson and is very generous Twittering with fans Arngrim , shared a 2 part home movie of a visit to Simi Valley, California where much of the TV show was filmed.
While many of the buildings were destroyed in filming the final episode deliberately so , a few such as the church, were spared and could be seen for years, however a California wild fire took out most of these remaining structures.
This video does a good job of helping you understand where the structures used to be so you can compare what you see in the episodes to what is on the ground today. The church from the show was not destroyed in the last episode, as you know, but it was dismantled, as the little house was. But some time later the owner of the ranch decided to have another small white church built on the land, and it was built at the blind school location, near the pond.
As a proviso, this is second hand information. There used to be many movie ranches around Hollywood where rural scenes were filmed. It rents out land to movie and TV production companies to use in filming. These are NOT finished houses.
