MIT Metropolitan Warehouse
Designed for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, known as the MET, consolidates most of the departments, labs, and centers of the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)—previously dispersed across the Main Group complex — into a single unlikely host. The five-hundred-foot-long solid brick building, begun in 1894 by Frederic Pope and expanded in four subsequent additions designed by Peabody and Stearns by 1911 and completed in 1923, evokes the safety and security of a fortress, with its two-foot-thick walls, corner tower, crenellated corbeled cornices, and small slit windows. Advertised as “fire proof” and suitable for the storage of bronzes, pianos, carriages, and furs, the facility was built to protect the treasures of Boston’s wealthiest families. The MET’s prominent location at the heart of the university campus allows for a symbolic extension of MIT’s Infinite Corridor from east to west, engaging the city and inviting the community to pass through the building.
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