Massachusetts
About this walk
Lesley grew from a kindergarten-teacher school run out of Edith Lesley's Cambridge home in 1909 into a university stitched through Porter Square, anchored by a 19th-century church reborn as an arts library.
A campus is an argument in brick about what education is for. Cambridge has a long-running one. Four stops over 0.7 miles, about 46 minutes of walking. Every stop narrates itself when you get there, at whatever pace you feel like walking.
It is one of eight tours in Cambridge, each taking a different line through the city. Nothing is booked and nothing expires, so you can start it on a whim and finish it whenever you like.
