The Summer Street Bridge is a
retractile bridge built in 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, over the
Fort Point Channel
Fort Point Channel is a maritime channel separating South Boston from downtown Boston, Massachusetts, feeding into Boston Harbor. The south part of it has been gradually filled in for use by the South Bay rail yard and several highways (specif ...
. 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
Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes ...
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.
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Bridges completed in 1899
Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
Retractable bridges
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