You are here

Metropolitan Boston » Core Boston » Fenway/Longwood » Medical Education Center

Medical Education Center

-A A +A
1987, Ellenzweig Associates. 260 Longwood Ave.

Alone among the more recent buildings on Longwood Avenue, the Medical Education Center looks toward the original Beaux-Arts-inspired white marble buildings of Harvard Medical School. In scale, materials, and articulation of bays, the four-story structure is in harmony with the classical wall it abuts, though its appearance is quite different. This austere facade provides a strong contrast to the skylit atrium within, consisting of a true forum—a meeting place for students and faculty. Marble busts of physician-educators on the corridors' balconies gaze down upon their descendents. A courtyard, formed with the exterior wall of the older building, frames the square tables set on a diamond patterned ground for outdoor congregating.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Keith N. Morgan
×

Data

What's Nearby

Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Longwood Medical Area
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston Lying-In Hospital) and Vanderbilt Hall
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston Latin School

Citation

Keith N. Morgan, "Medical Education Center", [Boston, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-FL23.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Massachusetts

Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 192-193.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,