Northeastern University is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922. With more than 38,000 students, Northeastern is the largest university in Massachusetts by enrollment.
The Huntington Avenue YMCA c. 1920, site of the Evening Institute for Younger Men.
Northeastern's historic Ell Hall on Huntington Avenue.
Robert J. Shillman Hall, constructed in 1995.
Completed in 2002, the Behrakis Health Sciences Center houses the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.
Huntington Avenue is a thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, beginning at Copley Square and continuing west through the Back Bay, Fenway, Longwood, and Mission Hill neighborhoods. It is signed as Massachusetts Route 9. A section of Huntington Avenue has been officially designated the Avenue of the Arts by the city of Boston.
Huntington Avenue, Boston, near the Christian Science Center, as viewed from the Prudential Tower (2009)
Huntington Ave (at left), at Copley Square, 1889
Horticultural Hall, at corner of Huntington and Massachusetts Ave, 1920