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Olin College: A Campus Tour

A walking tour of the labs, oval, and campus center behind one of the country's newest engineering schools.

Self-guided walking tour in Needham · 0.0 mi · walking · ~32m · 4 stops

Olin College: A Campus Tour — A walking tour of the labs, oval, and campus center behind one of the country's newest engineering schools. · MassRoam self-guided tour
▶ Narrated — included with MassRoam+
About this walk

A foundation spent itself down to build a brand-new engineering school — one with no departments, no tenure, and a first class recruited to help write the curriculum.

A campus is an argument in brick about what education is for. Needham has a long-running one. Four stops over 0.0 miles, about 32 minutes of walking. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.

It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.

Sunset over Milas Hall at Olin College, Needham.
Sunset over Milas Hall at Olin College, Needham. — Michael Maloney, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

What you get

Stops
4
each narrated, GPS-triggered along the route
Distance
0.0 mi
walking
Time
32m
at your own pace
Access
MassRoam+
subscription, in the app

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