Early MIT campus, ca. 1865 Courtesy MIT MuseumThe original MIT campus was located on Boylston and Clarendon Streets in Boston's Back Bay in the late 1800s, before it was moved across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1916. Timeline: 1890s Object: Image Collection: Ellen Swallow Richards, John D. Runkle, Marie C. Turner, Robert R. Taylor, Roots and Exponents 1875-1920, William B. Rogers