The Boston Public Garden Foot Bridge is a pedestrian bridge crossing the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Description and history Built in 1867, it was the world's shortest functioning suspension bridge before its conversion to a girder bridge in 1921.
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".
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".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.
The route of the Swan Boats passes under the bridge.
See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
References
External links
Public Garden Footbridge, 1867, cultureNOW