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View of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American
1892 or before
Medium/Technique
Photograph; gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Mount: 35.7 × 45.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Image: 19.7 × 24.4 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Image: 19.7 × 24.4 cm (7 3/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Notman Photographic Co.
Accession NumberM8299
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPhotographs
This photograph shows the original building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completed in 1866 on Boylston Street, between Berkeley and Clarendon Streets, in Boston's Back Bay. MIT moved across the Charles River to its present site in Cambridge in 1916, though the Institute retained this building until 1939 as a home for its school of architecture. MIT sold the building to the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, which demolished it to make way for its new headquarters.
Provenance1892, gift of the Notman Photographic Company to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: March 15, 1892)