Your tour will begin in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. From there, you’ll cross the Charles River and enter Cambridge, where you’ll be greeted straight away by the eye-catching main building of the famous MIT.
You’ll head next to Broadway, where you’ll find some serious history and the cutting-edge Draper Laboratory, where sharp young minds develop everything from submarines to drones and beyond. After passing by some gorgeous 1800s architecture, you’ll get your first good look at some Harvard buildings, as well as a redoubt used by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Then you’ll see the high school celebrities like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck attend!
Next is Harvard’s Memorial Hall, where famous speakers like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Winston Churchill have spoken. Then there’s the Cambridge Common, a training ground for Americ attendeda’s militia during the leadup to the Revolutionary War.
Continuing on, you’ll pass a street once infamous for housing many British Loyalists before the Revolution, followed by a venue that has hosted superstars such as Bob Dylan and Tom Rush in the past. Next, you’ll learn about some of Cambridge’s Irish history in the neighborhood of Kerry Corner before moving on to the impressive Cambridge City Hall. You’ll then pass the First Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr. sometimes attended services.
Finally, you’ll return to the MIT campus, near where your tour began. The tour concludes here.
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