Landscaping

Our goal is to utilize cutting-edge techniques in our landscape, promote our efforts actively, and generate national interest as a model institution.

Highlights:

• Removal of 5.7 acres of asphalt/paved surfaces
• Improved stormwater management to ensure run off into the Charles River watershed is clean.
• Renovation and remediation of Paint Shop Pond which was the site of a paint and pigment factory in the late 1800s to the early 1900s before the college purchased the property.
• Restoration of 8 acres of wetlands
• Significant reduction of pesticides by a well implemented IPM.
• Landscape approach that maintains open space for recreation but emphasizes meadows and woodlands with native plants as envisioned by Frederick Law Olmstead Jr.
• Removed 530 automobiles from the campus; emphasize pedestrian use.
• #14 most beautiful campus as rated by Forbes magazine in 2010.