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P Radcliffe Institute for architecture. The library’s VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Advanced Study most famous holdings are
Brattle St. Tel (617) 495-8601. 7 an extensive col lection of Practical Information
∑ radcliffe.edu cookbooks and ref erence n Harvard Square Information
Radcliffe College was founded works on gastronomy. Booth: Tel (617) 497-1630,
in 1879 as the Collegiate Cambridge Office of Tourism:
Institution for Women, when P MIT Tel (800) 862-5678, (617) 441-2884.
27 women began to study 77 Massachusetts Ave. Tel (617) 253- ∑ harvard.edu or
∑ cambridgeusa.org
by private arrangement with 4795. MIT Museum: Open 10am– ( Sun. _ River Festival
Harvard professors. By 1943, 5pm daily. & Hart Nautical Gallery: (early June.)
members of Harvard’s faculty Open 10am–5pm daily. List Visual
no longer taught separate Arts Center Open noon–6pm Tue– Transport
undergraduate courses to the Sun (to 8pm Thu). ^ 7 8  Harvard. @ 1, 69.
women of Radcliffe, and in ∑ mit.edu
1999 Radcliffe ceased its Chartered in 1861 to teach
offi cial existence as an students “exactly and thor- represented by Alvar Aalto’s
indepen dent college. It is oughly the fun damental seminal Baker House dormitory
now an institute for advanced principles of positive science (1949). Eero Saarinen’s com-
study promoting with application pressed arches make Kresge
schol arship of to the industrial Auditorium (1955) seem poised
women’s culture. arts,” the for flight. The spare lines of Kresge
The first Radcliffe Massachusetts Chapel (1955) embody ascetic
building was the Institute of faith. The Wiesner building houses
1806 Federal-style Technology has the List Visual Arts Center,
mansion, Fay evolved into one noted for its avant-garde art.
House, on the of the world’s The Hart Nautical Gallery in
northern corner leading universities the Rogers Building focuses
of what became in engi neering on marine engineering, with
Radcliffe Yard. and the sciences. models of ships and exhibits
Schlesinger Several architec- of the latest advances in
Library, on the tural masterpieces underwater research. The MIT
west side of the dot MIT’s 135-acre Museum blends art and science,
yard, is con- (55-ha) campus with exhibits such as Harold
sidered a signifi- along the Charles Edgerton’s ground-breaking
cant example of Stained glass, River. Finnish stroboscopic flash photographs,
Colonial Revival Radcliffe Institute Modernism is and the latest holographic art.

Harvard University
Environs
1 Cambridge Common CHAUNCY STREET EVERETT STREET Natural
History
2 Christ Church CONCORD AVENUE OXFORD STREET Museum
3 Harvard Square CRAIGIE STREET BERKELEY STREET ARSENAL FRANCIS AVENUE
Longfellow
SQUARE
Harvard
National
4 Harvard University Historic Site WATERHOUSE ST MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE University DIVINITY AVE
GARDEN STREET
Museums (see BRATTLE STREET HASTINGS AVE Cambridge Peabody
SPARKS STREET
Museum
pp114–15) Common KIRKLAND STREET
MASON ST
5 Harvard Yard FOSTER STREET WILLAED STREET Radcliffe Institute for GARDEN STREET Flagstaff Memorial IRVING STREET
Hall
(see pp112–13) Advanced Study APPIAN WAY Park Sackler
Museum
Christ
6 Longfellow National MOUNT AUBURN STREET HILLIARD BRATTLE ST Church PEABODY ST CAMBRIDGE
STREET
Historic Site ASH STREET STREET Harvard BROADWAY
Harvard
Logan
7 Radcliffe Institute for ELIOT HARVARD Yard Harvard Art International
Airport
Advanced Study SQUARE SQUARE Museums 12 km (7 miles)
PLYNPTON STREET
JOHN F. KENNEDY ST TROWBRIDGE ST
J.F. ELIOT ST HARVARD STREET
Kennedy MOUNT AUBURN STREET
Park MILL STREET
ATHENS
HOLYOKE STREET MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
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Charles River
M E M O R I A L D R I V E
Anderson DE WOLF ST GRANT ST ST
Bridge MIT
John W. Weeks
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