Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge

The Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge
The bridge in 2013
Coordinates	42.354127°N 71.069915°W / 42.354127; -71.069915
Locale	Boston Public Garden
History
Architect	William G. Preston
Engineering design by	Clemens Herschel
Opened	1867
Location

Description and history

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 route of the Swan Boats passes under the bridge.

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  The bridge, 2019
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  The bridge at night, 2007

See also

• Massachusetts portal

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