So what is where on this website?  Here's a quick guide...

Alvar Aalto: The man who dreamed up a home for us...

Everett Moore Baker: The place was named is his honor...

Building W7 (the building itself)

Architectural Significance: The place really is something special...

Construction: The construction of "Building W7"

Renovations: The major renovations in the late 1990s

Data & Statistics: Floor plans, room sizes, and other nerdy numbers

Spirit, Events, and Trends:

All the random things that made it a more than just a structure housing 350-plus MIT undergraduates.  
Things like crowding, commons, house trivia, and piano drops...
And things like the 1955 May Day Riot, the 1957 Tuition Riot, the snow barrier on Memorial Drive (1959),
the MIT Icicle Association (1960), and having snow in the 2nd floor showers (1968)...

Timeline: When did that happen?

Pictures: Mostly historical.  And we're still looking for the House Slide Collection...

Documents: 4000-plus pages of house documents

Who's Who

Housemasters: In loco parentis

House Officers: The grease...

Year-by-Year: A detailed list of everyone to helped make a community

1949-1960 — 1960-1970 — 1970-1980 — 1980-1990 — 1990-2000 — 2000-2010 — 2010-2020