Description

Estate of Edward "Ned" Howland Robinson Green in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The mansion was designed by architect Alfred C. Bossom and it was completed in 1921. It was donated to MIT by his sister and heir Sylvia Green in 1948. It was used for educational and military purposes until 1964 when it was sold to the Society of Jesus of New England.

Green was fascinated by radio technology. The Round Hills Radio Corporation was established in June 1922 with Green as company president. It received radio licenses for its broadcasting station, WMAF, in September 1922. Green invited MIT to use the facilities and provided financial support. The MIT transmitter was operated by students under call sign WIXV.

Professor Edward L. Bowles conducted experiments in 1926. The radio station tracked polar expeditions of Donald B. MacMillan and Richard E. Byrd and the maiden transatlantic flight of the Graf Zeppelin. A 40-foot Van de Graff generator was built by the inventor in the abandoned airship hangar which became operational in December 1933. The generator was donated to the Museum of Science in Boston in 1956.