The Dot

The Dot is a grassland in City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. The Dot is situated nearby to the square McDermott Court, as well as near the university building Green Building.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Green Building and List Visual Arts Center.

Green Building

University building

Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Cecil and Ida Green Building, also called the Green Building or Building 54, is an academic and research building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its administration of the permanent art collection distributed throughout the university campus, faculty offices, and student housing. List Visual Arts Center is situated 530 feet northeast of The Dot.

MIT Museum

Museum

Photo: S5A-0043, CC BY 4.0.

The MIT Museum, founded in 1971, is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It hosts collections of holography, technology-related artworks, artificial intelligence, architecture, robotics, maritime history, and the history of MIT. MIT Museum is situated 1,000 feet northeast of The Dot.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kendall Square and Back Bay.

Kendall Square

Locality

Photo: Daderot, CC0.

Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The square itself is located at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.

Back Bay

Suburb

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Historical heavyweights, Back Bay and Beacon Hill are some of Boston's most beautiful neighborhoods. With narrow, gas-lit streets and scores of architecturally significant buildings, these distinctly different neighborhoods will make up the core of almost any visitor's itinerary.

Wellington-Harrington

Suburb

Wellington-Harrington, also known as Area 3, is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Overlapping with Inman Square and Kendall Square, it is bounded by Hampshire Street and Broadway on the southwest, the Grand Junction railroad tracks on the east, and the Somerville town line on the north.

The Dot

Type: Grassland
Location: City of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.35999° or 42° 21′ 36″ north

Longitude

-71.08912° or 71° 5′ 21″ west

Open location code

87JC9W56+X9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 33758903

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=grass

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