Sections of several towns in Central Massachusetts were displaced when the Wachusett Reservoir and Clinton Dam were created in the late 1800s. This project involved researching people and families who lived in Boylston, one of the partially displaced towns, to tell their stories. We employed digital reconstruction by creating 3D models of buildings that were in Boylston and displayed them using an interactive platform that allows users to explore what life was like in Boylston before the dam.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Mikolajczyk, Kyle J.
• Rankin, Jasper
• Wasserman, Lauren E.
• Lanoue, Timothy J.
• Collins, Abigail L.

Subject

• Learning
• Innovation
• Culture
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 24046
• E-project-051221-135907

Keyword

• Interactive Experience
• Boylston
• 3D Modeling
• Reservoir
• Digital Reconstruction
• Historic Preservation

Advisor

• Demetry, Chrysanthe
• Vaz, Rick

Year

• 2021

Center

• Thessaloniki, Greece Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Professor Paul Marrone

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education

Date created

• 2021-05-12

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International