General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Retractile bridge (retractile draw bridge) |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 42° 21' 3.59" N 71° 3' 7.03" W |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Notes
The Summer Street Bridge is the only known surviving electrically-operated, paired-leaf oblique retractile drawbridge.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Summer Street Bridge is a retractile bridge built in 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, over the Fort Point Channel. It still stands, but the draw was welded shut and the motors removed in 1970. It was the site of a terrible streetcar crash on the night of November 7, 1916. When documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1984, the Summer Street Bridge was one of only four retractile drawbridges left in the US, two of which were on Summer Street in Boston. The other Summer Street bridge, over Reserved Channel, was replaced in 2003.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Summer Street Bridge (Boston)" and modified on August 21, 2024 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
- William Jackson (designer)
- John E. Cheney (designer)
Relevant Web Sites
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20010279 - Published on:
15/09/2003 - Last updated on:
20/08/2024
