A brutalist former psychiatric hospital made famous by its central role in Netflix drama Stranger Things is set to be demolished to make way for a new residential development targeting older people.

Abraham Thomas Bradbury’s Georgia Mental Health Institute was built between 1962-63 in the Atlanta suburb of Druid Hills. But it is more famous as the fictional Hawkins National Laboratory in the science fiction/horror TV series created by Matt and Ross Duffer.

The show launched in 2016 and is now in its fifth season. In it, the government-run Hawkins National Laboratory exists to perform legitimate scientific research but covertly explores the paranormal and supernatural. In the process it creates a portal to another dimension.

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