Sean Collier Memorial
Sean Collier Memorial is a historic site in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Single Tree Hill stands 100 m to the southwest, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Aesop's Fables, II, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 1.5 miles off.
The story
The Sean Collier Memorial is a large abstract environmental sculpture located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by MIT faculty and students in memory of Sean Collier, a member of MIT Campus Police, who had been killed at the site by the Boston Marathon bombers on April 18, 2013. The project was proposed, designed, funded, fabricated, and installed in less than two years, and formally dedicated on April 29, 2015.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2015-04-29.
Wikidata Q76173347, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Material
- granite
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 4.3 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 24.4 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 1 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 23 mi
- Eagle Rock · 27 mi
- Lookout Point · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- MIT Museum: 0.2 mi
- Hart Nautical Gallery: 0.3 mi
- Tech Model Railroad Club: 0.4 mi
- First Corps of Cadets Museum: 0.9 mi
- Gibson House: 1.0 mi
- Aesop's Fables, II: 0.1 mi
- Transparent Horizon: 0.1 mi
- Banana Lounge: 0.1 mi
- Working Model for Reclining Figure: 0.1 mi
- Bars of color within squares: 0.2 mi
- Grand Junction Park: 0.1 mi
- Danny Lewin Park: 0.1 mi
- Reardon Square: 0.2 mi
- Loughrey Walkway: 0.3 mi
- Binney Street Park: 0.3 mi
- Building 76 East Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Stata Center Swale: 0.1 mi
- Peace Garden: 0.1 mi
- Lipchitz Courtyard: 0.2 mi
- President's Garden: 0.2 mi
- Dana Hill: 1.2 mi
- Beacon Hill: 1.2 mi
- Flagstaff Hill: 1.3 mi
- Prospect Hill: 1.4 mi
- Copps Hill: 1.7 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 4.0 mi
- Tenean Beach: 5.4 mi
- Corinha Beach: 5.5 mi
- Nickerson Beach: 5.7 mi
- Short Beach: 5.9 mi
- Hall's Pond Sanctuary: 1.6 mi
- Amory Woods: 1.6 mi
- Parker Hilltop: 2.4 mi
- Back Of The Hill Urban Wild: 2.5 mi
- 140 Highland St: 2.6 mi
- Longfellow Bridge Trophy Room: 0.6 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 0.8 mi
- Citgo Sign: 1.0 mi
- Boston Marathon Finish Line: 1.0 mi
- National Historic Chemical Marker: 1.1 mi
- Lower Cliff: 5.0 mi
- Upper Cliff: 5.0 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 5.1 mi
- The Alcove: 5.1 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 5.1 mi
- Pine Knoll: 3.9 mi
- Oak Lea: 4.0 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 4.1 mi
- Babcock Arboretum: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Site 12: 8.6 mi
- Boathouse: 10.4 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 10.4 mi
- Oil Shed: 10.5 mi
- Rainshed: 10.5 mi
- Boston Light: 10.5 mi
- Quarry Spring: 5.1 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 10.7 mi
- Mystery Spring: 22.2 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.8 mi
- Rock Falls: 12.1 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 21.2 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 0.9 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 10.6 mi
- Haywardville: 7.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.7 miles of Sean Collier Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Tree Hill | SW 230° | 100 m | 4.2 mi |
| Waban Hill | WSW 250° | 98 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Walley | SSW 213° | 91 m | 4.4 mi |
| Green Hill | SSW 208° | 89 m | 4.6 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | WSW 239° | 86 m | 4.3 mi |
| Boojum Rock | N 4° | 83 m | 5.4 mi |
| Fisher Hill | SW 229° | 81 m | 3.4 mi |
| Corey Hill | WSW 238° | 80 m | 2.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:32 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boston, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1074664696
Day trips start here
- Boston/Back Bay-Beacon Hill · 1 mi
- Boston/Fenway-Kenmore · 1 mi
- Cambridge · 1 mi
- Greater Boston · 1 mi
- Boston · 2 mi
- Boston/Charlestown · 2 mi
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