View of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.