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General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 B...

Significance: With the construction of the Roxbury Standpipe in 1870 and a small pumping station nearby, the Boston Water Board had introduced water to the higher elevations of Roxbury and other parts of Boston... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk Co...

Significance: Route 3A has been the main route to the South Shore, ever since the Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808. A swing bridge was built here in 1901-1902, but proved a... More

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk Co...

Significance: Route 3A has been the main route to the South Shore, ever since the Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808. A swing bridge was built here in 1901-1902, but proved a... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk Co...

Significance: Route 3A has been the main route to the South Shore, ever since the Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808. A swing bridge was built here in 1901-1902, but proved a... More

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex County, MA

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex Coun...

Significance: One of the most architecturally impressive factories in the immediate Boston area is the Victorian cordage factory built about 1866 for the Silver Lake Cordage Company. The original four-story br... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Lexington, Middlesex County, MA

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Le...

Significance: The Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, incorporated by the legislature in 1845, was built to link Lexington and Arlington (then called West Cambridge) with the new line of the Fitchburg Railroad... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk Co...

Significance: Route 3A has been the main route to the South Shore, ever since the Hingham and Quincy Bridge and Turnpike Corporation was formed in 1808. A swing bridge was built here in 1901-1902, but proved a... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North Station vicinity, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North S...

Significance: Part of the extensive terminal improvement program by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the last element to be completed, was the replacement and realignment of the railroad's crossings of the Char... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North Station vicinity, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North S...

Significance: Part of the extensive terminal improvement program by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the last element to be completed, was the replacement and realignment of the railroad's crossings of the Char... More

Boston Water Works, Roxbury Standpipe, Fort Avenue, Highland Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston Water Works, Roxbury Standpipe, Fort Avenue, Highland Park, Bos...

Significance: The annexation of Roxbury to Boston on January 6, 1868, rendered a high-service water supply system necessary. Previously, Boston had been supplied by a gravity-flow system from the Brookline Res... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 B...

Significance: With the construction of the Roxbury Standpipe in 1870 and a small pumping station nearby, the Boston Water Board had introduced water to the higher elevations of Roxbury and other parts of Boston... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Metropolitan Water Board, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pump Station, Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Metropolitan Water Board, Chestnut Hill Low Service Pump Station, Beac...

Significance: Encouraged by the good results being obtained by the Metropolitan Sewerage System, the Massachusetts legislature of 1893 authorized the State Board of Health to make investigations for a metropoli... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Lexington, Middlesex County, MA

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Le...

Significance: The Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, incorporated by the legislature in 1845, was built to link Lexington and Arlington (then called West Cambridge) with the new line of the Fitchburg Railroad... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 B...

Significance: With the construction of the Roxbury Standpipe in 1870 and a small pumping station nearby, the Boston Water Board had introduced water to the higher elevations of Roxbury and other parts of Boston... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

John S. Fogg Shoe Factory, 4-10 Union Street, Columbian Square, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

John S. Fogg Shoe Factory, 4-10 Union Street, Columbian Square, Weymou...

Significance: Weymouth history has been closely tied with that of shoemaking in Massachusetts, and, in the 19th century, "Weymouth Grade" was synonymous with high quality. By the 1760s, the town had left the h... More

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 B...

Significance: With the construction of the Roxbury Standpipe in 1870 and a small pumping station nearby, the Boston Water Board had introduced water to the higher elevations of Roxbury and other parts of Boston... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Summer Street Retractile Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Summer...

Significance: The Summer St. bridge is a rare movable type of bridge known as a retractile draw, in which the moving span is pulled diagonally away from the navigable channel on several sets of rails. Only fou... More

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex County, MA

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex Coun...

Significance: One of the most architecturally impressive factories in the immediate Boston area is the Victorian cordage factory built about 1866 for the Silver Lake Cordage Company. The original four-story br... More

John S. Fogg Shoe Factory, 4-10 Union Street, Columbian Square, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA

John S. Fogg Shoe Factory, 4-10 Union Street, Columbian Square, Weymou...

Significance: Weymouth history has been closely tied with that of shoemaking in Massachusetts, and, in the 19th century, "Weymouth Grade" was synonymous with high quality. By the 1760s, the town had left the h... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Boston & Providence Railroad, Canton Viaduct, Neponset Street at East branch of Neponset River, Canton, Norfolk County, MA

Boston & Providence Railroad, Canton Viaduct, Neponset Street at East ...

Significance: The Canton Viaduct is a granite structure 615 feet in length, 22 feet in width, and 70 feet above the surface of the Neponset River's East Branch. The viaduct was the principal structure on the B... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Cochituate Aqueduct, Brookline Reservoir Gatehouse, Boylston & Warren Streets, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA

Cochituate Aqueduct, Brookline Reservoir Gatehouse, Boylston & Warren ...

Significance: The Cochituate Aqueduct was Boston's first major water supply conduit. Completed in 1848, the 15-mile conduit from Lake Cochituate to the Brookline Reservoir was linked to cast iron pipes at this... More

Sudbury River Aqueduct, Echo Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Upper Newton Falls, Newton, Middlesex County, MA

Sudbury River Aqueduct, Echo Bridge, Spanning Charles River at Upper N...

Significance: Echo Bridge is the largest of the visible structures on the 18.8 mile Sudbury River Aqueduct connecting the Sudbury River in Framingham with Boston's Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Completed in 1878, t... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary between Boston & South Boston, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at boundary ...

Significance: The Northern Avenue Swing Bridge, built in 1908, is one of only three surviving swing bridges built by the city of Boston in the late 19th and early 20th century. Today, still operated infrequent... More

Boston & Providence Railroad, Canton Viaduct, Neponset Street at East branch of Neponset River, Canton, Norfolk County, MA

Boston & Providence Railroad, Canton Viaduct, Neponset Street at East ...

Significance: The Canton Viaduct is a granite structure 615 feet in length, 22 feet in width, and 70 feet above the surface of the Neponset River's East Branch. The viaduct was the principal structure on the B... More

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

General Dynamics Corporation Shipyard, 97 East Howard Street, Quincy, ...

Significance: Throughout its more than eighty year history, the General Dynamics Corporation/Quincy-Fore River Shipyard was one of the leading private shipyards in the United States. Producing both military an... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congress Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...

Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Lexington, Middlesex County, MA

Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Le...

Significance: The Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, incorporated by the legislature in 1845, was built to link Lexington and Arlington (then called West Cambridge) with the new line of the Fitchburg Railroad... More

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