Solomon Court at Cabot Center
From the South and West (128/95): Take 128/95 to Route 93. Take Mass. Ave exit and take right onto Mass. Ave. Follow Mass. Ave through seven set of lights until St. Botolph Street. Take left onto St. Botolph and follow to stop sign. Take right onto Gainsborough Street and then a left onto Huntington Avenue. Solomon Court at Cabot Center is on the left at corner of Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street.
From the North (93 & 95 across Tobin Bridge): Take exit 26 (Storrow Drive, NO BUSES...BUSES USE Route 93 directions above) and follow signs for Storrow Drive. Take Fenway exit off Storrow Drive and proceed straight off exit ramp (follow signs for Boylston Street Inbound, do not bear right) and continue through three sets of lights to Mass. Ave. Take right onto Mass. Ave. and proceed to Huntington Avenue (right after Symphony Hall). Take right onto Huntington and Cabot Center is two tenths of a mile ahead on the left at the corners of Huntington and Forsyth Street.
Public Transportation: Take the "E" car of the Green Line to Northeastern stop. Cabot Center is across Huntington Avenue from the stop.
Solomon Court at Cabot Center Summary and History
Like Matthews Arena and the recently-constructed Marino Center, Solomon Court at Cabot Center is full of amenities for Husky athletes. Cabot is home to the Husky athletics department as well as some fine facilities. The men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball teams conduct their practices and games in the gym, with its newly-renovated seating areas and floor. The Cabot Center also houses a 2,300-square-foot weight room, racquetball courts, an indoor track, rowing tanks, a cardiovascular room, and the Barletta Natatorium - an Olympic-size swimming facility.
Sports history had already occurred at the corner of Forsyth Street and Huntington Avenue long before the Cabot Center opened there in 1954. The building, named for beneficiary Godfrey Lowell Cabot in 1957, sits on the former site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds, where the first World Series was played in 1903 between Boston and Pittsburgh. Just outside the Cabot Center is a statue of Cy Young that commemorates the inaugural Fall Classic.
Cabot Gym has both a new look and a new feel. The new look is brighter with a light cream colored ceiling, medium gray walls, red seating and a refinished court. It replaces the old men's club look that 84 years of Husky hoopsters have experienced. From the dark mahogany of the Huntington YMCA from 1916-1953 through five decades of woodsy wainscoting and bleachers in "Old Cabot." Maybe even more important is the new feel. The installation of the chair back seats was greeted by hundreds of sighs of relief from the backs of the over-40 generation. In addition, the Shanahan Academic Center and a new strength & conditioning center were recently constructed and the locker rooms for all teams housed in the Cabot Center were renovated.
Cabot Center
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Opened: 1954
Facilities:
Home of Husky Men's and Women's Basketball, Volleyball
Directions to Solomon Court at Cabot Center
Solomon Court at Cabot Center
From the West (Massachusetts Turnpike): Follow turnpike into tunnel and take Prudential exit. Proceed westbound on Huntington Avenue. Gym is approximately three tenths of a mile on left at intersection of Huntington and Forsyth Street.
Home of Husky Men's and Women's Basketball, Volleyball
Named: 1957 for beneficiary Godfrey Lowell Cabot
Capacity: 2,500
• Weight room
• Cardiovascular room
• Racquetball courts
• Barletta Natatorium
• Solomon Indoor Track
• Rowing tanks
• Locker rooms
