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142 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139


Community and Government Near Walker Memorial

Hatch Memorial Shell
Distance: 0.7 mi Competitive Analysis
47 David G Mugar Way
Boston, MA 02108

(617) 626-1250

The Edward A. Hatch Memorial Shell (commonly referred to as the "Hatch Shell") is an outdoor concert venue on the Charles River Esplanade in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts.The Hatch Shell is best known for hosting the Boston Pops Orchestra annually for the Boston Fourth of July celebration, but is also used for free concerts most weekends and many weeknights during the summer months. The grass pavilion in front of the stage has no permanent seating. There is a memorial nearby to Arthur Fiedler, first permanent conductor of the Pops.HistoryThe original, wooden shell was built in 1928 as a temporary venue for the Pops with expectations of construction of a permanent structure in the near future. It was first used for a concert on July 4, 1929, with Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra. A second, temporary shell, made of metal, was built in 1934, but owing to sparse funding throughout the Great Depression, construction of a permanent Hatch Shell was delayed until 1939-1940. Today's permanent shell was designed by architect Richard J. Shaw, given by Maria Hatch in memory of her brother, and dedicated on July 2, 1940. In preparation for its 50th anniversary in 1991, it underwent significant renovation and repair along with modernization of its acoustics by Boston architecture firm Finegold Alexander. Bostonian Howard Brickman, a master craftsman specializing in wood floors, re-created the intricate interior paneling of the shell by hand.

EJW Investments
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
100 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02112

Boston Fire Department Engine 33/Ladder 15
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
941 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115

(617) 343-2880

Boston Redsox, Fenway Park
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
Yawkee Way
Boston, MA 02215

Prudential Building
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
800 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02199

Ashdown
Distance: 0.6 mi Competitive Analysis
235 Albany St
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-2961

MIT Chapel
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
50 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-4795

The MIT Chapel is a non-denominational chapel designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen. It is located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, next to Kresge Auditorium and Kresge Oval, which Saarinen also designed. Though a small building, the Chapel is often noted as a successful example of mid-Century modern architecture in the US. Saarinen also designed the landscaping surrounding all three.Leland M. Roth included the building in his History of American Architecture, using it to illustrate the contrast between Saarinen's approach and that of Mies van der Rohe . Roth said that "through the sheer manipulation of light and the its focus on a blazingly white marble altar block, Saarinen created a place of mystic quiet."From the outside, the chapel is a simple, windowless brick cylinder set inside a very shallow concrete moat. It is 50ft in diameter and 30ft high, and topped by an aluminum spire. The brick is supported by a series of low arches. Saarinen chose bricks that were rough and imperfect to create a textured effect. The whole is set in two groves of London Planetrees, with a long wall to the east, all designed by Saarinen. The wall and trees provide a uniform background for the chapel, and isolate the site from the noise and bustle of adjacent buildings.Within is an intimate space, stunning in its immediate visual impact. Windowless interior walls are undulating brick. Like a cascade of light, a full-height metal sculpture by Harry Bertoia glitters from the circular skylight down to a small, unadorned marble altar. Natural light filters upward from shallow slits in the walls catching rippling reflected light from the moat; this dim ambient light is complemented by artificial lighting. The chapel's curving spire and bell tower was designed by the sculptor Theodore Roszak and was added in 1956.

Venture Café Foundation
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
1 Broadway, 5th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 758-4128

The mission of the Venture Café Foundation consists of three pillars: - Building and connecting communities of innovation locally, nationally, and internationally. - Expanding the definition of innovation and entrepreneurship. They are not just about making apps . - Building a more inclusive innovation economy. We want to make sure that questions about inequality and inclusion are part of the innovation and entrepreneurship conversation –not an afterthought.

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
500 Main St
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-6403

The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research is a cancer research center affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Institute is one of eight National Cancer Institute-designated basic research centers in the United States.The Institute was launched in October 2007 with a $100 million grant from David H. Koch and the 180000sqft research facility opened in December 2010, replacing the MIT Center for Cancer Research (CCR). The Institute is affiliated with 25 MIT faculty members in both the Schools of Engineering and Science.

Elks Lodge
Distance: 0.7 mi Competitive Analysis
55 Bishop Allen Dr
Cambridge, MA 02139

Microsoft Nerd Center
Distance: 0.3 mi Competitive Analysis
1 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02142

Akamai Technologies
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
8 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 250-3000

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years its customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter, eBay, Google, LinkedIn and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of the website.The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO.

Biogen
Distance: 0.5 mi Competitive Analysis
250 Binney St
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 679-2000

Biogen, Inc. (previously known as Biogen Idec) is an American multinational biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializing in the discovery, development, and delivery of therapies for the treatment of neurodegenerative, hematologic, and autoimmune diseases to patients worldwide.HistoryBiogen was founded in 1978 in Geneva by several prominent biologists, including Kenneth Murray of the University of Edinburgh, Phillip Allen Sharp of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter Gilbert of Harvard (who served as CEO during the start-up phase), Heinz Schaller, University of Heidelberg and Charles Weissmann, University of Zurich (who contributed the first product interferon alpha). Gilbert and Sharp were subsequently honored with Nobel Prizes: Gilbert was recognized in 1980 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in understanding DNA sequencing, while Sharp received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for his discovery of split genes.

US DOT/ Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Distance: 0.4 mi Competitive Analysis
55 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 494-2000

The Catered Affair at the Boston Public Library
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
230 Dartmouth St
Boston, MA 02116

(617) 859-2282

The Catered Affair is a full service catering and event planning company with offices at the BPL and on the south shore. We work one-on-one with our catering clients to reveal your individual style and vision. You can be assured we will design a unique event for you centered on good food and good company.

Copley
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
640 Boylston St. at 230 Dartmouth St.
Boston, MA 02116

(617) 222-3200

Copley is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line subway, located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. Located in and named after Copley Square, the station has entrances and exits along Boylston Street and Dartmouth Street.Copley is fully handicapped accessible, following extensive station renovation completed in 2011. The renovation project was subject to a significant court case regarding the project's effects on the Old South Church.HistoryCopley Station was opened October 3, 1914, as part of the Boylston Street Subway, an extension of the original Tremont Street Subway. The ornate wrought-iron head house next to the Boston Public Library was designed by the firm Fox, Jenny & Gale. Originally Copley had light blue and white tile mosaic for the station name on the walls; however, none of these have survived.Renovation project and lawsuitAs a "key station" on the MBTA system, Copley was a priority for the MBTA to make handicapped accessible under the Light Rail Accessibility Program. A 1995 MBTA report identified possible elevator locations for the station, noting potential conflicts with the historic Old South Church and the Boston Public Library McKim Building, both of which are National Historic Landmarks. The MBTA finished design plans in 2002; representatives from the church and the library approved the plans. These plans placed the outbound elevator next to the church, and the inbound elevator next to the library steps.

First Baptist Church (Boston, Massachusetts)
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
110 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02116

(617) 267-3148

The First Baptist Church is an historic American Baptist Churches USA congregation, established in 1665. It is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the United States. It first met secretly in members homes, and the doors of the first church were nailed shut by a decree from the Puritans. The church was forced to move to Noddle's Island. The church was forced to be disguised as a tavern and members traveled by water to worship. Rev. Dr. Stillman led the church in the North End for around 40 years. The church moved to Beacon Hill, where it was the tallest steeple in the city and nicknamed the "Church of the Holy Toothpick". After a slow demise under Rev. Dr. Rollin Heber Neale, the church briefly joined with the Shawmut Ave. Church, and the Warren Avenue Tabernacle, and merged and bought the current church in 1881, for $100,000.00. Since 1882 it has been located at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street in the Back Bay. The interior is a pending Boston Landmark.

One Kendall Square
Distance: 0.5 mi Competitive Analysis
1 Kendall Sq
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 252-3335

575 Commonwealth Avenue
Distance: 0.9 mi Competitive Analysis
575 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215

575 Commonwealth Avenue is a dormitory at Boston University. Until 2001 the building was a Howard Johnson hotel owned by the University. It is located in Kenmore Square next to the Rafik B. Hariri Building, which houses the Questrom School of Business.HistoryThe building at 575 Commonwealth Avenue opened in November 1963 as the Fenway Commonwealth Motor Hotel. It contained 150 rooms and a 135-car garage. It was the third hotel in the Commonwealth Motor Hotel chain. In 1975 the hotel became a Howard Johnson's.The seventh floor was home to a cocktail lounge. Originally known as the Cartoon Room, it later became a Top 40 club called the Up and Up Lounge. In 1983 it became a jazz club known as the Starlight Roof. Among the artists to perform at the Starlight were Ruby Braff, Tanya Hart, Tal Farlow, Phil Wilson, Scott Hamilton, Guy Van Duser, and Chris Connor. The lounge's final incarnation was as a nightclub known as the Lava Bar.On March 6, 1981, a four alarm fire broke out in the hotel. Twenty guests had to be rescued from balconies and window ledges. Six guests and two firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation.In 1987, the hotel's swimming pool was closed from August 19 to September 23 for sanitary violations.

Portuguese Consulate
Distance: 0.8 mi Competitive Analysis
31 St James Ave
Boston, MA 02116

617-536-8740

Local Business Near Walker Memorial

MIT Climbing Wall
Distance: 0.0 mi Competitive Analysis
142 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-1000

Harvey Brian
Distance: 0.0 mi Competitive Analysis
3 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1305

(617) 253-0222

MIT Sailing Pavilion
Distance: 0.0 mi Competitive Analysis
134 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 253-4884

MIT Killian Hall
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
160 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

Senior Haus
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
70 Amherst St
Cambridge, MA 02142

TRW Carr Division
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
31 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1305

(617) 494-0440

Berry William A & Son Contrs
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
31 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1305

(617) 621-1900

Senior House
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
70 Amherst St
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 253-3191

East Campus
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
3 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142

BOC Gases
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
25 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1305

(617) 374-9992

Green Building
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

The Cecil and Ida Green Building, also called the Green Building or Building 54, is an academic and research building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was designed by Araldo Cossutta and I. M. Pei. Pei, among the world's most noted architects, had received his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1940. Principal donor Cecil Howard Green received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from MIT and was a co-founder of Texas Instruments.ArchitectureThe Green Building was constructed during 1962-1964, in reinforced concrete. It has 18 floors, equivalent to 21 stories or 295ft tall, with a concrete facade that more or less matches the limestone and concrete of the older MIT buildings near it. The basement of the building is below sea level and connects to the MIT tunnel system. Three elevators operate in the Green Building. There are staircases at both the east and west sides, whose exterior facades present a vast windowless expanse relieved only by one-story tall concrete recessed panels. On the "LL" level (actually one story above ground level), is Room 54-100, a large lecture hall. The second floor formerly housed the Lindgren Library, part of MIT's library system, but this separate facility was consolidated into another library in 2009.

MIT Center for Civic Media
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 299-9831

We are inventors of new technologies that support and foster civic media and political action; we are a hub for the study of these technologies; and we coordinate community-based test beds both in the United States and internationally.

MIT Medical Center
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
25 Carleton Street, Building E23
Cambridge, MA 02142

Charles River Yacht Club
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
99 Memorial Dr
Cambridge, MA 02142

(617) 354-8681

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mit Medical
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
25 Carleton St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1323

+1 (617) 253-4481

Clover Food Truck
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
20 Carleton St
Cambridge, MA 02142

MIT Killian Court
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

Gaston Electrical Company Inco
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
31 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02142-1305

(617) 494-1030

Lobby 10
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139