Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge Explained

Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge
Locale:	Boston Public Garden
Architect:	William G. Preston
Engineering:	Clemens Herschel
Open:	1867

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]

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts

External links

• • • Public Garden Footbridge, 1867, cultureNOW

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bridge under construction on Stuart Street - Boston Business Journal. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120529082636/http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/2012/05/bridge-under-construction-on-stuart.html. 2012-05-29.
2. Web site: Boston Garden Foot Bridge - 1867 - Boston, MA . Waymarking . November 14, 2019.