The William Barton Rogers Building, known as Building 7, stands at 77 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Built in 1937 and 1938, it was built for the School of Architecture, which had stayed in Boston's Back Bay after the rest of MIT moved to Cambridge. A reception for 700 guests opened it in December 1938.
The entrance closely matches the adjacent 1916 buildings, with a dome, columns and limestone. William Welles Bosworth, who designed the original campus, proposed the vestibule, a circular or octagonal space rising to a skylight. Its four corner plinths never received the planned sculptured figures. A 2010 student competition produced design models for them.
The estimate was $700,000, and the cost reached $1.42 million by August 1937. Construction used 8,500 cubic yards of concrete. The building also held drafting rooms, offices, classrooms, a library and laboratories.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from MIT Alumni Association: Building 7, SAH Archipedia: MIT campus.
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