"So much... So much happened here.And so much is about to."- Walter Bishop The Harvard Laboratory is situated in the basement of a building in Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the site of Dr. Walter Bishop's Fringe science experiments during the 1970s and 1980s. The laboratory was also shared by William Bell. It is unknown whether the lab was built specifically for Bell and Bishop or whether it existed before. In the early 1990s the lab was shut down after Bishop was institutionalized following the death of one of his assistants.