The pilot episode was filmed in Canada; primary photography for all subsequent episodes has been shot on the Fox lot in Century City
. Bryan Singer chose the hospital near his hometown, West Windsor, New Jersey, as the show's fictional setting. Princeton University's Frist Campus Center[a] is the source of the aerial views of Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital seen in the series. Some filming took place at the University of Southern California for the season three episode "Half-Wit", which guest-starred Dave Matthews and Kurtwood Smith. Part of House's sixth season was filmed at the abandoned Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, as the fictional Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital