Early MIT campus, ca. 1865
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The original MIT campus was located on Boylston and Clarendon Streets in Boston's Back Bay in the late 1800s, before it was moved across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1916.
The original MIT campus was located on Boylston and Clarendon Streets in Boston's Back Bay in the late 1800s, before it was moved across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1916.