Kresge Auditorium
Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the auditorium and concert hall in Cambridge. For the concert hall in Interlochen, Michigan, see Interlochen Center for the Arts.
42.35812°N 71.09507°W / 42.35812; -71.09507
Kresge Auditorium (MIT Building W16) is an auditorium structure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen,[1] with ground-breaking in 1953 and dedication in 1955. The building was named for its principal funder, Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of S. S. Kresge Stores (corporate predecessor of Kmart) and the Kresge Foundation.[2]