The Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1867, it was the world's shortest functioning suspension bridge before its conversion to a girder bridge in 1921.[1]
Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge | |
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.jpg) The bridge in 2013 | |
| Coordinates | 42°21′15″N 71°04′12″W / 42.354127°N 71.069915°W |
| Locale | Boston Public Garden |
| History | |
| Architect | William G. Preston |
| Engineering design by | Clemens Herschel |
| Opened | 1867 |
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A plaque reads, "Public Garden / Foot Bridge / Opened June 1, 1867 / Designers / Clemens Herschel, Civil Engineer / 1842 - 1930 / William G. Preston, Architect / 1842 - 1910 / Tablet Placed June 1, 1936 / Boston Society of Civil Engineers".[2]
The bridge is surrounded with "a horticultural effusion of specimen trees and carpet bedding (...) replacing a private effort to create a horticultural garden on the site of ropewalks that had been destroyed by fire".[3]
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The bridge, 2019 -
The bridge at night, 2007
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See also
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References
edit- ^ "Bridge under construction on Stuart Street - Boston Business Journal". Archived from the original on 2012-05-29.
- ^ "Boston Garden Foot Bridge - 1867 - Boston, MA". Waymarking. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
- ^ Keith N. Morgan, "Boston Public Garden", Boston, Massachusetts, SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012 - Society of Architectural Historians and University of Virginia Press. [1]
External links
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Media related to Lagoon bridge in the Boston Public Garden at Wikimedia Commons- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-76, "Boston Public Garden, Suspension Bridge, Boston Public Garden, Boston, Suffolk County, MA", 6 photos, 1 photo caption page
- Public Garden Footbridge, 1867, cultureNOW
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