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ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology stands in Cambridge on land that was once a tidal mud flat. Developers acquired 215 acres of Cambridge riverfront muck in the 1880s, hoping to create valuable real estate in emulation of the earlier Back Bay landfill across the Charles River. They built a granite seawall and planned a riverfront park and town houses. But they went bust in the panic of 1893. The land, partly filled, lay vacant until 1910', when MIT...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology stands in Cambridge on land that was once a tidal mud flat. Developers acquired 215 acres of Cambridge riverfront muck in the 1880s, hoping to create valuable real estate in emulation of the earlier Back Bay landfill across the Charles River. They built a granite seawall and planned a riverfront park and town houses. But they went bust in the panic of 1893. The land, partly filled, lay vacant until 1910', when MIT...
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Location
Vassar St & Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
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