Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is located in Princeton, New Jersey, in House M.D.
The hospital is fictional, but the series places it in the Princeton area of New Jersey. Its compound name refers to Princeton and Plainsboro, nearby communities in the show’s imagined medical landscape. House’s home, the hospital, and many patient stories are all connected to this setting.
Princeton is also an important clue to the show’s broader literary design. House’s character is modeled in part on Sherlock Holmes, and the series uses detective-story structures in which a brilliant investigator assembles evidence from apparently unrelated clues. The New Jersey location grounds that structure in an American teaching-hospital environment.
Plainsboro is part of the hospital’s name, which can cause confusion about the town being requested. The fictional institution is generally identified as being in Princeton, while real medical facilities and filming locations should not be treated as evidence that Princeton-Plainsboro itself exists.