A postcard air view of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in 1975, The MIT Campus is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. It is along a wide area in the river called the Charles River Basin. Memorial Drive is parallel to the river.

The original set of classroom buildings from 1913-1916 is at left. Most buildings at MIT are numbered. The Great Dome is on Building 10. The Hayden Library (Building 14) is to the right of the main buildings, and Walker Memorial (Building 50) is the next building. The tower is the Green Building (Building 54). It was built in 1962-1964. It is 295 feet (90 m) high, and is the tallest building in Cambridge.

Kresge Auditorium, designed by Eero Saarinen and built in 1953-1955, is at top left. It is supported at three points. It is Building 46 in the numbering system, but its number is not used. There are dormitories off the photo, fronting on Memorial Drive, including Burton House, my first "home" when I attended MIT.