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, 2019
The bridge at night, 2007
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The PublicGarden, also known as BostonPublicGarden, is a large park in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston Common. It is a part of...
The City of Boston set up 49 areas to grow gardens, including plots on Boston Common and BostonPublicGarden. The Fenway Victory Gardens were established...
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Bridge, the Charlestown Bridge, and the Charles River Dam TD Garden and North Station North End Copp's Hill Coast Guard Base Boston Christopher Columbus...
and the Serpentine Bridge forming the boundary between them. The Gardens are fenced and more formal than Hyde Park. Kensington Gardens are open only during...
far from garden-variety". Boston Globe. Boston, Mass. Retrieved January 12, 2019. Byrd, Janice (April 8, 2001). "Salvage Yard". The Boston Globe. Retrieved...
District and Beacon Hill, is the oldest public park in the United States. Along with the adjacent BostonPublicGarden, it is part of the Emerald Necklace...
unique pedestrian bridge that curves around a waterfall on the Reedy River. Named the Liberty Bridge at Falls Park on the Reedy, the 355-foot (108 m) long...
renamed Wynn Boston Harbor, around 30 of those acres had previously been set aside for industrial use and were inaccessible to the public for more than...
Boston, Massachusetts is home to many listings on the National Register of Historic Places. This list encompasses those locations that are located north...
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Columbia University in New York City Statue of Wendell Phillips, PublicGarden in Boston, Massachusetts The Four Continents – Asia, America, Europe, and...
in the Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden 2017: Chihuly, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 2017: Chihuly: In the Forest, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville...
just south of BostonGarden, turned southwest above Causeway Street with an elevated station at North Station in front of the BostonGarden, and then turned...
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded...
is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch across Hell Gate, a strait of the East River that separates Wards Island from Queens. The bridge also includes...
Boston College High School incorporated. Statler Hotel Boston opens for business. 1928 Boston University Bridge built. November 17: BostonGarden opens...
features gardens designed and created in traditional Japanese style that are open to the public. Japanese Garden Research Network: Japanese gardens in the...
of Boston, are the human-powered Swan Boats on the lake of the city's PublicGarden. The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit...
Corporation, are being restored, and are open to the public but locked at night. Several buildings within the garden are individually listed at grade II or grade...
agreed in late 1906 to built a line under Beacon Hill in Boston, over a new West BostonBridge, and under Main Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge...
Greenway is a linear park located in several Downtown Boston neighborhoods. It consists of landscaped gardens, promenades, plazas, fountains, art, and specialty...