Sections Search In the World Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Kendall Square A guide to navigating through the Boston area’s smartest square 03.24.2016 By BU Today Staff. Photos by Nailya Maxyutova (COM'14) Few Boston neighborhoods have been transformed as often as Cambridge’s Kendall Square. Originally a Charles River salt marsh, by the middle of the 19th century, it was a bustling industrial center that housed distilleries, factories, and the well-known Kendall Boiler and Tank Company, hence its name. After World War II, most businesses had shut down or moved, leaving much of the section deserted, except for MIT, which had moved to Cambridge in 1916. With President John F. Kennedy’s race to space, the area was under consideration for NASA’s mission control center. But Vice President Ly
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