Does anyone know about the river in the show House, MD. ?

Question

There is a river in the opening credits, and nobody seems to know why it is there. Any guesses?
Is there anyone who works with the show that can help with this? I asked it before, without any informative (or even speculative) reply.

Answer 1

The show is set in a fictionalized version of the hospital at Princeton University in New Jersey. The "river" is actually Lake Carnegie. Here's a passage from a website dedicated to keeping track of Princeton-related locations in "House":

"There's an interesting story here ... Princeton University students had long complained of the lack of a satisfactory rowing venue. In the 1870s, the crew team tried rowing on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, but it was too narrow and heavily traveled. One day Howard Russell Butler (Class of '76 ... 1876, that is) happened to run into Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist and founder of Carnegie Steel Company (later to become U.S. Steel)...Butler aired his complaints to Carnegie who had built a number of lakes in his native Scotland. He was intrigued and asked Butler to research what it would cost to fulfill Butler and his friends' dream to create a lake by flooding the wetlands south of campus. Butler sent Carnegie a letter dated July 16, 1902 stating it was feasible and should cost just over $100,000.00. Carnegie agreed to fund the project.

"Four years later, the 300-acre marsh and surrounding land was purchased, the vegetation removed and mud dredged out by horse-drawn wagons. An area of Stony Brook and the Millstone River between Kingston and Princeton was dammed, flooding the area to a depth of 12 feet. Princeton now had its lake ... three miles long and up to 800 feet wide. Lake Carnegie was dedicated on December 5, 1906."

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

House Md Opening Credits

Answer 4

I just looked it up on IMDB.

Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA


Koreatown, Los Angeles, California, USA


Los Angeles, California, USA


Princeton, New Jersey, USA
(clinic aerials)


Santa Clarita, California, USA


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(pilot only)

I don't know if what you're seeing is the Delaware or not. The show is supposed to "take place" in N.J.

Answer 5

no