How to Get Here

Buildings and performance spaces

Concerts take place in the Jordan Hall building, the Student Life & Performance Center, and the St. Botolph building.

Jordan Hall building

Postal address: 290 Huntington Avenue; street entrance: 30 Gainsborough Street. [Directions] 

Performance spaces include:
  • Jordan Hall
  • Brown Hall
  • Williams Hall
  • Keller Room
Additional spaces:
  • Teaching studios, practice rooms, and some administrative offices.

Student Life & Performance Center (SLPC)

255 St. Botolph Street [Directions]

Performance spaces include:
  • Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
  • Burnes Hall
  • Eben Jordan Ensemble Room
  • Joseph L. Bower Family Stage in the Speed Dining Commons
Additional spaces:
  • Blumenthal Family Library
  • Speed Dining Commons
  • Student Residence

St. Botolph building

241 St. Botolph Street [Directions]

Performance spaces include:
  • Pierce Hall
Additional spaces:
  • Institutional Advancement
  • Student Services

33 Gainsborough building

33 Gainsborough Street [Directions]

  • NEC Welcome Center
  • College Admissions
  • College Financial Aid
  • Preparatory School
  • Continuing Education
  • Music Espresso campus bookstore
  • Copy Center
Panoramic skyline of Boston

By subway or bus (MBTA)

Subway: Take the Green Line "E" train to the Symphony stop. Walk one block west on Huntington Avenue, towards the YMCA. Take the first left, onto Gainsborough Street. NEC's Jordan Hall building takes up the entire southwest corner of this intersection, with the entrance on Gainsborough Street. Note: this station is not wheelchair accessible.

OR

Take the Orange Line to the Massachusetts Avenue station. During daytime hours, exit the station via the open end of the platform and turn right. When you get to street level, Jordan Hall will be on your left, just past the parking garage. At other times, when this exit is locked, exit the station via the covered end of the platform and take a left onto Massachusetts Avenue. Walk to the first set of lights, at St. Botolph Street. Take a left onto St. Botolph Street and walk to the end of the block. Jordan Hall is located diagonally on the right. Note: this station is wheelchair accessible.

Bus: Convenient buses include #1, #CT1, and #39.

For detailed, up-to-date information about the MBTA, Boston's public transportation system (commonly called the "T"), visit www.mbta.com.

By automobile

Traveling east on the Massachusetts Turnpike, Route I-90, take Exit 22 and then veer left to the Prudential exit, surface onto Huntington Avenue, continue straight through the light, go under or cross Massachusetts Avenue, and turn left at the traffic light onto Gainsborough Street.

Traveling north on Route I-93, take exit 18 to Massachusetts Avenue and continue north for six blocks. Turn left just before the white Symphony Towers onto St. Botolph Street and go one block to Gainsborough Street.

Traveling south on Route 93, take exit #26 (Storrow Drive). Follow Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square/Fenway exit, and bear to the left towards Fenway. Go to the first light and bear left to Boylston Street Inbound. Go to the third light, which is Massachusetts Avenue, and turn right. Go to the fourth light, which is Huntington Avenue, and turn right. Go one block to the next light, which is Gainsborough Street, and turn left. Jordan Hall is located immediately to your right.

Parking information and access information.

By air

From Logan Airport, take the free shuttle buses to the Blue Line T station. Take the inbound (Bowdoin track) car. At State Street transfer to the Orange Line (Forest Hills track) to the Massachusetts Avenue station. Exit the station via the covered end of the platform and take a left onto Massachusetts Avenue. Walk to the first set of lights, at St. Botolph Street. Take a left onto St. Botolph Street and walk to the end of the block. Jordan Hall is located diagonally on the right.

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Boston is known as "America's walking city," and the NEC campus is right in the heart of Boston.

Amenities are easy to access both on foot and by public transportation.

NEC's two dual-degree partners, Harvard and Tufts, are right across the river and are also connected to NEC by public transportation.