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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

also known as MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was incorporated in Boston in 1861 and moved across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1916. Its campus now occupies 168 acres along the Cambridge side of the Charles River Basin.

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Arrived from Boston by barge in 1916 — a defining 20th-century chapter of Cambridge’s 400 years.

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18611861Massachusetts Institute of Technology enters the civic record here.

Established: 1861
Address: 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Online: Official site ↗
Public connections: 0
Sources: 4

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Review date: 2026-08-23

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WikidataQ49108 Wikipedia18879 Official sitehttps://mit.edu

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