Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge

Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge
Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge
	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
Location

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]

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]

The bridge, 2019
The bridge at night, 2007

References

^ "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

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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[1] "Bridge under construction on Stuart Street - Boston Business Journal". Archived from the original on 2012-05-29.

[Waymarking-2] "Boston Garden Foot Bridge - 1867 - Boston, MA". Waymarking. Retrieved November 14, 2019.

[3] 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]

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Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge

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